Has God's "day of rest" ended?

[Sinai]

In the Genesis account of creation, after recording the work performed by God on each of the six creative days, Moses concluded by saying "and it was evening and it was morning day _____ (one, second, third, fourth, fifth, the sixth)." There is no such concluding statement regarding the seventh day: the day of God's rest.

Any thoughts as to why that might be?

Has God's "day of rest" ended? If so, when did it end?

Or did it continue until later in the Bible?

Or is it still continuing?


What are your thoughts (and evidence, if any) regarding this?

 

[npetreley]

Not according to Hebrews.

 

[Sinai]

Thread topic question originally posted by Sinai:

Has God's "day of rest" ended?

Answer posted by npetreley:

Not according to Hebrews.

Very good, Nick!

Hebrews 4 is one of the places where the Bible indicates that God's day of rest continues.

 

[Sinai]

Is Nick the only one who has an opinion on this topic?


Has God's "day of rest" ended? If so, when did it end?

Or did it continue until later in the Bible?

Or is it still continuing?


What are your thoughts (and evidence, if any) regarding this?

 

[Hewitt]

I agree with what has been said so far because of what is written in Hebrews. If God wrote it, then it must be true and no point arguing against it in my mind

 

[LightBearer]

Yes, it's still ongoing.

 

[Sky]

Yes.

 

[npetreley]

One note: The sabbath rest that we will enter into may not simply be the continuing of the existing day of rest. In fact, this passage implies that it is a different rest.

7 Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

 

[Sky]

Shouldn't this be in the theology forum?

 

[Sinai]

Originally posted by Sky77:
Shouldn't this be in the theology forum?

It is. Or at least a variation of it is in the theology forum.

But since the topic deals with God's resting from his six days of creative activity--and this forum is dedicated to "Science, Creation & Evolution", and since the theology forum is limited to Christians (while this topic could also interest persons who are not Christian), I asked the question in a slightly different form for this forum.

Since you might also find the posts in the theology forum version to be of interest to you, click here to link to that site.

Thank you.

 

[Sky]

The six days of creation are symbolic, not literally six (7) days.

 

[npetreley]

Originally posted by Sky77
The six days of creation are symbolic, not literally six (7) days.

god has spoken

 

[Sky]

I'm not God. Stop being so sarcastic and just accept that you may be wrong. Stop the personal attacks and actually present evidence for your thery/belief.

 

[Sinai]

Any other opinions? Is God still resting from his creative work? If so, are we in the "seventh day"? Do you have a scriptural basis for your answer?

 

[Sky]

I don't know.

 

[Sinai]

But do you have opinions on these issues? Thank you.

 

[paulewog]

We're not in the 7th day. That wasn't figurative, nor were the other 6 days.

Here is my evidence for literal days.

1) The word for Hebrew word ("Yom") used for day is always used for literal, 24 hour days... there's a different word used for figurative days.

2) It says "and there was evening and morning." VERY strange to include a Hebrew idiom for a day passing (literal day) if it wasn't a literal day....

3) Read (1) and (2) again.

Symbolic and Figurative are different, by the way...

 

[MSBS]

This site:

http://www.aish.com/societywork/sciencenature/age_of_the_universe.asp

has an interesting take on the whole 6 days of creation thing. I expect the site may have been posted here before, but if not, read it through, it's well done. Anyway, if you follow the authors calculations through, the seventh day still has just under 125 million years left to go.

 

[Sinai]

Thanks for the site, MSBS. Thus far I have always found anything written by Dr. Schroeder to be well reasoned and thought provoking--and I anticipate that this will be no exception. Again, thank you.