If God is all knowing and all mighty (the creator of everything) then why did God need to rest on the 7th day?
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God rested on the seventh day to signify completion. If you notice, it doesn't mention in the bible the end of the day because there was no end of the day, it was supposed to be eternal, which obviously represents going into heaven for eternity.
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Call me crazy but I don't think it's "logical" to ask why God did anything.  I don't feel we should live our lives asking questions as to why "Creator" did this or that.  We should simply be thankful for all that we have.  If someone is truly thankful the questions will no longer exist...:)>
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I am sure that God created the universe in only 6 "days". The question is, how long were these days? One day at that point in time could actually have spanned millions of our years. This would explain dinosaurs and evolution and a few other questions. I don't think Lucifer was banned to Hell until after Humans were made and I think he was a human who died and went to Heaven and then was bannished to Hell. He could of even walked with some of your ancestors. (Creepy, huh!)
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Islam does not beleieve that universe is created in 6 days,but it says 6 aayams (long period of time).And God does not need  rest.
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At Hebrews 4:1-10  indicated that God’s rest day was still continuing in his generation, and that was more than 4,000 years after that seventh-day rest period began. This makes it evident that each creative day, or work period, was at least thousands of years in length.
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OK, according to the Bible, the creation of the heavens and the earth was "the beginning". So, we don't know what God was up to before that time (and in most views, this is irrelevant because God is 'timeless').\nWe are given no explanation of where God came from, it is simply assumed that God always has been (no matter what belief system, Evolution, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hindu, or any other, there comes a point where you simply have to say "I don't know where it/He/we came from").\nBack to the Bible ... Since 'the begining' is the creation of heavens and earth, NOTHING (other than God) existed before that time. God then began a process of 'forming' and 'filling' His creation. This process took Him six days. On day one, He created light and separated it from the darkness, calling it one day. This was the forming of the heavens (space/time).\nOn day two, He formed the atmosphere by separating the waters above from the waters beneath.\nOn day three, He begins to fill what He has formed, starting with the earth, separating the water from the land, and filling the land with growing things (plants).\nOn day four, He fills the heavens (above the atmosphere) with the sun, moon, and stars (probably the angels were created on this day as well).\nOn day five, He fills the water with fish (and other water-dwelling creatures), and the firmament (atomosphere) with birds (and other flying creatures)\nOn day six, He filled the land with all land-dwellers and created man in His own image to rule over the earth as the Vice-regent of God. \nOn day Seven, God rested from (stopped) the work of creation.\nNow, Genesis chapter 2 is often mis-understood to be a contradiction of Genesis 1 because of some differences in the order of creation, and some added details, so I will try to give a little understanding to this. Have you aver read a newspaper headline? Gen. 1 is the 'headline' and the main article is in Gen. 2. This is a detailed account of what happened on day 6, where God made a garden, placed the man in the garden, and then created one of each 'kind' of creation right before his eyes so the man could name them and rule them in equity. Then God created the woman to be with the man (by this time, Adam knew he needed a mate too!)\nIn the garden Adam and Eve had only ONE restriction - They were free to do ANYTHING they wanted to do with the exception of eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were clearly told the penalty of this would be death.\nIn spite of this knowledge, they both ate of the tree, and as a result, death entered the world, and the perfect creation of God was ruined. Instead of killing Adam and Eve though, God provided a 'loophole' in the law, and an animal (probably a lamb) was killed instead. In this way Adam and Eve saw the result of their sin brought death into the world, but God spared their lives for the time. By clothing them in the skins of the animal killed in their stead, God was giving them a constant reminder of the result of sin, and reminding them that He accepted them through the substitution of the animal killed in their place.\nThen God makes an extraordinary promise (Gen. 3:15) That the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent who deceived her.\n\nWe now skip ahead to a time when evil has grown on the earth to the point God can no longer stand it (Gen. 6), and men have stopped caring whether or not they are in right standing with God, forsaking the sacrifice, and offending God in all their thoughts and deeds (possibly because even though Adam lived to the age of 930 years, he eventually did die). \nBut there is one man (Adam's great, great, great, great, great, great, granson) who is still seeking God, and observing the sacrifice for atonement of sin. This man's name was Noah, and God judged the entire world with a flood, but spared Noah and his family (as well as each k
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there was no matter. our human mind cant comprehend the fact that God MADE matter AND TIME . God is not bound to time like we r. For to Him a thousand years in heaven is one day here.and a thousand years here is 1 day in heaven.doesnt make any sence unless u know the truth of God. not the public , deceptive view the world gives us.
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If you believe and read the Holy Bible then you can know the truth that man was created on the sixth day.\n\nThese are the verses from the Holy Bible which mention the details of the sixth day during the Almighty Eternal Gods creation\nThe Book of Genesis chapter 1 verses 24 to 31\n\n24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. \n\n 25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. \n\n 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. \n\n 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. \n\n 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. \n\n 29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. \n\n 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. \n\n 31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.\n\nHope God will show you the truth when you ask him yourself from whereever you are.
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nothing - the 7th day (to Christains it's Sunday/ to the Jews, it's Saturday, aka Sabbath); it is a day of resting.
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God is the CREATER of all as well as human being; HE create everything we can see in this Universe and as well as those that can't be seen. HE is the one who create all kinds of POWER; SHOWING, and SEEING. HE is the one who give power to all those leaders. Human has no ability to see the CREATER of SEEING. HE have given us this life and all things in this Universe to let us know that HE exist!!!!!
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The common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.\n\nThe first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.\n\nExtra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.\n\nThere are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.\n\nOne viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).
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okay...  i'm **NOT** a christian, but let's say they're right for the purpose of discussion...\n\nif god made the world in six days and rested on the seventh..  what's a "day" to one who's existed for all time?  his day could be a trillion years to us wee mortals.
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This is a VERY IMPORTANT subject I know it is long, but PLEASE read it\n\n\nA challenge where in the Bible does it call Sunday the New Sabbath? search the scriptures you will not find it\n\n\nWas the Sabbath created by God on Mt. Sinai?\n\nAnd on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. \nGenesis 2:2,3\n\nThe Sabbath was part of creation week\n\n\nWhat does the Bible say about the Sabbath?\n\n“ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11\n\n\nBut we don’t really know which day is the seventh?\n\nIt is highly unlikely that the entire Jewish community forgot which day was their Holy day.\n\nWhich day is the seventh day?\n\nSaturday : the seventh day of the week\n-Webster’s Dictionary\n\n\nAre there other examples of God emphasizing the Sabbath?\n\nHe said to them, "This is what the LORD commanded: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Exodus 16:23 \n\nAnd the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, for that the LORD hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day.       Exodus 16:28-30\nBoth of these examples are before Mt. Sinai and the 10 commandments. \nSpeak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Exodus 30:13\n\n\nI am a Christian and I want to follow Christ. Did Jesus keep the Sabbath?\n\nHe went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. Luke 4:16\n\nGoing on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" Matthew 12:9,10\n\nThey went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. Mark 1:21\n\nWhen the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. Mark 6:2 \n\nHe went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. Luke 4:16\n\nThen he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath began to teach the people. Luke 4:31\n\nOn a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues Luke 13:10\n\n\nBut isn’t Sunday the Lord’s day?\n\nSix days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. Exodus 20:8\n\nIf thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:\nIsa 58:14  Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isa 58:13,14\n\nFor the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. Matthew 28:8\n\nSo the Son of Man is Lord even of t
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First of all: I consider it really important to base your faith upon something that is reasonable, because if you do not do so, when faith is replaced by doubt, it would be really difficult to sustain. according to this, I consider that God is evident because: if we, the world we live in, and the whole universe surrounding us exist, then we could say that "Emptiness" (understand this as the lack of everything  doesn't exist), therefore Everything (understand this as the total lack of Emptiness) exists, therefore God (or something that could be considered to be infinite and eternal exists.=)
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Yes. But the real question is what are you doing with your seven days a week, starting today. Remember the Lord (God) has given you this day. So live it.
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Hmm, yeah, that's a very interesting point! Why not just trust "god" to protect him? Now, would that be a sin? Because if it was gods will for him to die, than he's preventing that from happening, right? but if god was "almighty" then he could give him a heart attack or something...but then if he's that powerful, why the need for bulletproof...round and round we go....I need chocolate!  :) smart question btw!
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Actually, the 7th day is Saturday.  However, Christians have gone to church on Sunday for many years because Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday.\nIt's no bother to God that we go to church.  He created us to worship/glorify him, so he likes it when we go to church.  It's not work if he's being honored.  When we pray, it doesn't bother him, either.  We can pray any day of the week, and not just Sundays.