Christians Please Explain This To Me If You Can?

Question

God is tired and rests
Ex 31:17
God is never tired and never rests
Is 40:28

First of all both versus contradict themselves.
If you say that each verse were meant for different events then you are mislead. The key word "never" means that God will and can not be tired and rest in any event or situation. Yet the first verse says God is tired and needs rest.

Secondly, how come the almighty God feel tired?
Is God like a human being that needs rest and feel fatigue?

NOTE:
I have not studied the Bible thoroughly and I will not.
I don't care whether I am taking it out of context or not.
So don't bother giving me those replies.

You Chrisitans know the Bible thoroughly and takes nothing out of context so that is why I am asking you to explain it to me.
If I knew I wouldn't ask now would I?

Please explain what you know without bashing or trying to avoid my question. If you do I consider you cornered.

I can see that many Christians are cornered. The reason I don't care if I am reading out of context is because I don't want you to tell me am reading it out of context everytime I ask a question.

Answer 1

First is either mistranslation or fabrication.

Answer 2

I do not believe the bible is the literal word of God. The bible is a series of man made writings to explain things God has revealed to them through deed or prayer. Thus, the word "never" is not an absolute truth, merely a literary convention to convey the way the writer viewed the universe. Also, the creation story is far too simplistic to be taken literally. If you really wanted to find contradictions, you could do so right there. In the first creation story it clearly says that animals were created before man. In the second, it clearly implies that humans were created before animals. However, both include this "God directed the creation of the universe." and "God created man". Thus, I conclude that that is the important part of the story. The rest is mostly fluff.

Answer 3

Thousands of years ago when the authors of Genesis wrote what you quoted, human kind had a limited understanding of God and would often give God human qualities. Since humans needed a day off to rest, so must God.
We have a better understanding of God through the New Testament which calls God, "Love." True love can never rest just as a mother's love for a child does not take a day off.

Answer 4

The Bible doesn't say in Exodus 31:17 that God "got tired". That's something that you have inferred from the text. What it says is that God "rested", meaning He stopped his work of creation.

Answer 5

ya it doesnt make sence that God would get tired...

but the bible is full of contradictions - you must remember the current Bibles dont have much resmblence to the original text.. they have been mistranslated and edited over and over to suit the purpose of the time - most famous is the King James Edition.. which notes many changes from the original text to suit his purposes..
dont forget when Constantine formed the Bible he discarded many books he didnt want... as such there is lots of info missing.. he compiled only those storeys he liked.. and threw out the rest..

also lets not forget the Bible was written by man.. not God.. it was edited, translated etc by man.. and every man has their own adgenda...

Answer 6

If you "don't care if you're taking it out of context or not" then you don't want to know the truth.
Why even ask the question? Take a rest.

Answer 7

Ok in Exodus 31:17 it is talking about how God rested after He created the earth....and its more or less Him setting an example for us to follow in that we work six days and rest on the 7th....God didnt NEED to rest...he was just sitting back and enjoying his creation

Answer 8

The words are different in these 2 different passages.


Exodus 31

31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
The word "rested" in hebrew is:
tbX. And the meanings of this word is :
to cease, desist, rest
(Qal)
to cease
to rest, desist (from labour)
(Niphal) to cease
(Hiphil)
to cause to cease, put an end to
to exterminate, destroy
to cause to desist from
to remove
to cause to fail
(Qal) to keep or observe the sabbath

Isaiah 40 Read This Chapter
40:28
Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of his understanding.

I got these versions from the KJV with Strong numbers-Strong numbers means straight from the hebrew language the OT was written.

The Hebrew word weary is: [gy
and it's meaning is:
to toil, labour, grow weary, be weary
(Qal)
to toil, labour
to grow weary, be weary
(Piel) to weary, make weary, cause to go toilsomely
(Hiphil) to make to toil, make weary, cause to be weary

There is NO contradictions as these are 2 different hebrew words ;-)

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Answer 9

ex 31:17 is to teach people how to take time out from work God is prime example to people
40:28 is to assure people that God who care for is people that while weary and tire God can give them strength.
God care for you too. it is your choice. He can give you strength as well Just believe in Jesus.

Answer 10

Is. 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?

Let's first note the words: "fainteth" is ya'aph, while "weary" is yaga. Now then:

Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

A need for rest? No -- "rested" simply means "desisted from exertion", i.e., stopped what one was doing. The Hebrew word for "rest" (shabath) is used in the context of something ceasing or lacking, or in the sense of celebration (see Lev. 2:13; 23:32; the Greek in Heb. 4:4 has similar meaning.) "Refreshed" literally means "breathed" -- this word is used only 3 times in the OT, once in reference to people on the Sabbath (Ex. 23:12) and once at 2 Sam. 16:14, "And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there."

Does it mean one needs a nap? Only if the context demands it, as in the latter case. The word actually suggests more of a sense of satisfaction as derived from a cooling air, as is appropos for the seventh day (Gen. 1:31, And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. -- an evaluation of what was before it.) If tiredness was what was at issue, a better word would have been ravach, or "breathe freely."

Is. 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Even by itself, it's hard to see how this would give any idea that God was physically tired, and the word bears it out: it is la'ah, meaning disgusted. (This word is also used in Jer. 15:6.) Harder is this one:

Is. 43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

This time it is yaga, but there's a poetic point to make, though not what skeptics might expect. This is made in counter-point to Is. 43:23, "Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense."

43:24 is a rhetorical hyperbole, making the point that none of God's demands upon the people were the sort to wear them out, and God counterpointing -- with heavy sarcasm -- "No, you have worn me out with your sins." This is a powerful indictment in light of that God said in 40:28 that he does not get weary.

Answer 11

Exodus does not say that God was tired , it says that he reasted and was refreshed. it was a covenant with the Israelites to work for six days and rest one. Humans become weary, God does not. It was and is a day for everyone to worship God for all that He had done.