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If God is all powerful why did he need to rest on the seventh day?
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∙ 11y ago
Although God is the most powerful, He also need to rest or be rest so that we us Human created by God will Know and Learn the importance of the seventh day in our daily living...
I think He rested on the Seventh Day as an example to people to observe the Sabbath , for us to rest from daily labors, to worship , and to spend time with family. Besides , if I created something as awesome as this planet and all on it , I would like a day to sit back and admire the beauty of it all.
You could argue that the day of rest came first, and then the Creation story (from Babylon probably, though some of the story is from Israel) came along to sanctify the Sabbath.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 8y agoHe didn't.
God, about whom it is written “He neither tires nor wearies” (Isaiah 40:28), and whose every act is performed without need for physical effort, nonetheless dictated rest in reference to Himself only in order to make it understood to the human ear with words that it can understand (Rashi commentary, Exodus 31:17).
This means that God ceased creating, which gave the apparent impression of "resting." He did that for the Israelites, in order to later give them the Shabbat-restday.
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What did God declare the seventh day?
According to Genesis, he rested. Here's a better question: Why would an all powerful, eternal and infinite entity need to rest?
What is the first to seventh creation of god on first to seventh day?
rest
What did god do on the seventh day that he did not do for the others?
On the seventh day God rested.
What does God want us to do of the seventh days?
rest
What creation story is shared by christians Muslims and Jews?
They are pretty much identical except that in the Islamic version the Creation ends after six days. God does not rest on the seventh day, because God would not need to rest.
Who chose the sabbath?
It is God who told us to worship on the sabbath. He created the universe in 6 days and rested on the seventh day. This seventh day is called the sabbath. He did not rest because he was tired but as an example of what we need to do.
In the creation story why is it said that God rested on the seventh day?
In the Christian perception of God, he should never need to rest, thus making the seventh day an anachronism. However, the Jews wanted to know why they were required to hold the seventh day to be a day of rest. One version of the Ten Commandments says that God commanded the Israelites to respect the sabbath day because that was the day on which God rested.
What day did God rest?
== And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.View the discussion page for the remaining answers
Why the seventh day is given to the Jews for observance?
It is a commandment in the Bible for Jews to rest on the seventh day, for it took God seven days to create the world and He too rested on the seventh day.
What did god do on the 7th day?
And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.
Did God created the seventh day on the seventh day?
No, on the seventh day He rested! Sounds like a trap question. Agree with above answer. He created nothing on the seventh-day. But blessed the seventh day and hallowed it. Commanding us to rest and keep it holy!
How many days did God rest after his creation?
That would depend on which god you refer to.
