According to chirstianity God rested on the seventh day, does God weary?

Question

if it is true that God wearies, does that mean God is not all powerful.?

Answer 1

All cultures have anthropomorphized their gods into humanoid (if sometimes grotesque) form. Were the Jews the exception? Hardly. We know precisely what the Hebrew god looked like. We are, after all, fashioned in his own likeness. He was a man, no doubt looking remarkably like the bearded sage asking us to worship him. He has body parts: eyes and a face (‘they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes’ – Jeremiah 16.17); nose and a mouth (Psalms 18.8); lips, tongue and breath (Isaiah 30.27,33); loins (Ezekiel 1.27); even ‘back parts’ (Exodus 33.23). He also has several ‘human’ emotions, manly appetites, and a worrying disposition towards pathological violence.

Yahweh feels regret for his own evil (‘And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.’ - Jonah 3.10); and grief (at the wickedness of men) (‘and it grieved him at his heart’ - (Genesis 6.6). He actually gets down and wrestles with Jacob, dislocating his thigh (Genesis 32.24). He forgets (he goes on calling Jacob ‘Jacob’ even after re-naming him ‘Israel’ - Genesis 35.10, 46.2). He practises favouritism (choosing the Israelites ‘above all people’ - Exodus 19.5; but he just does not like Cain or Esau!). He holds grudges (‘I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation’ – Exodus 20.5).

For an omniscient god he is surprisingly unknowing (‘They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not.’ – Hosea 8.4). And for an omnipotent god he has his limitations (‘The Lord was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron.’ - Judges 1.19).

And after his creation of the world, he even has to rest from his labour (‘And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work’ - Genesis 2.2) – to the endless bemusement of pagan critics, whose own gods didn’t need to rest!

The most disturbing aspect of Yahweh’s humanoid personality, however, is his blood-lust. The smell of burning flesh is a ‘sweet savour unto the lord’ – so sweet, in fact, that the phrase appears in the Old Testament no fewer than twenty-three times. The butchery demanded by god is truly monumental. Believers are required to sacrifice two lambs day-by-day continuously – and that’s just for starters! Just as well Yahweh had several thousand priests to help him trough through the banquet!

Livestock bears the brunt of god’s appetite but humans could so easily get the chop from the big guy. God kills Uzzah for simply steadying the tumbling Ark (1Chronicles 13.9,10). Poor Onan was zapped for using the withdrawal method of birth control (Genesis 38.10). But such isolated vindictiveness palls in comparison with the mass killings of the Lord. When the autocratic Moses faces a rebellion led by Korah, God uses an earthquake and fire to consume two hundred and fifty rebels. When indignant sympathizers protest at the injustice, God wipes out another fourteen thousand seven hundred with a plague (Numbers 16). What a guy!

Answer 2

Much of the bible is written metaphorically, and when you write about a subject such as 'God', the wording tends to get very....elastic.

There are many ways to understand the word 'rest': as a break from work, as a pause bridging two distinct yet related activities, even as the culmination of a particular event. One 'rests' after sleeping by waking up and getting out of bed. One 'rests' after being up all day by laying down and going to sleep.

Music, especially, is very fond of 'rests' between notes: the musician is not kicking back and taking five (usually) but instead using the pause to create tension within the piece, a symphony between movement and rest, fast and slow.

In the case of 'resting' after seven days, the meaning includes all of the above and another as well: every journey has its conclusion. If there is light, let there be dark, if there is work, let there be rest.

Answer 3

No God don't weary, it is written " The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath". As a Christian we rest on Jesus the Son of the All-Powerful, Most High Father!

Answer 4

No, he doesn't weary...he takes the time to stop and smell the roses. He was setting an example for us...showing us that after you work hard for six days, you need to take time to enjoy the fruits of your labor! God doesn't weary, but we do if we don't follow his instructions...people that don't take a regular break to rest and recharge become consumed with work and eventually lose touch with what really matters...their relationship with God and with other people.

Answer 5

The sabbath was made for man. God rests while that which was spoken into existence grows into what God was ultimately creating. He was not simply creating a planet and he was not simply creating flesh. From a time before the foundation of the world the purpose for creation was and is the creation of the sons of God. Based on the current birth pangs, I would say that our time in this womb is about to come to an end.

The Good News is that while it remains " Today " there is still time to enter into God's rest.

Answer 6

God does not weary, he was setting the example for mankind to choose one day out of the week to stop working and take a break

Answer 7

Maybe but the word "rest" doesn't always mean taking a break because one is tired.

In music, for example, there is the concept of a "rest." In a written piece of music, there are symbols which denote rest, which means stop playing for the time indicated.

Does this mean the performer can just take a nap when the rest is indicated? Yes, if he wants to look like a fool.

But a rest is part of the music, and when a musician "rests," he is still totally involved in the performance, because he has to watch the score to tell him when to resume playing.

So perhaps when Genesis says "God rested," it just observes that he "stopped creating."

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Answer 8

No He doesnt weary;He just likes to chill sometimes.Noone,including God wants to be a busybody all the time.

Answer 9

The word Hebrew word used rested is shabath [H7673] which means he-is-ceasing. This word is never means weary.

Answer 10

No. The number 7 is the exact count of planets inwards from Pluto to Earth. The ancients Sumerians knew that because they were told by the Anachim from the planet Nibiru. During their 3,600 year orbit opf the sun they sojourn here. It is on the 7th planet, the Earth, that they rest.