Everyone is familiar with the "days" of creations from day 1 to day 6. If you are not then read the first chapter of the bible.
On the sixth day of course we see man is created and then in Genesis 2:2 we see God taking the seventh day and resting. So man was living and breathing while God was resting.
Some people think of these "days" of creation like ages or large spans of time. Like the verse in 2 Peter 3:8 "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." And this may help to agree with our evolutionist friends who say the earth is 4.54 billion years. Now a more literal biblical interpretation to how old the earth is would put the earth at about 5700 to a max of 10000 years old. Even at the largest number the 10000 years puts a very small dent in 4.54 billion years.
So lets assume the earth is 4.54 billion years and the biblical time-line (we will say after creation) is about 10000 years. Well the 10000 really doesn't do anything to the 4.54 billion so in the interest of rounding we will just cancel it out all together. lets then take the 4.54 billion and divide it into 7 pieces... well again in the interest of rounding you get around 65 million. So if each of these "days" were all equal and the earth is 4.54 billion years old these days would be about 65 million years long. And this would also mean the seventh day is also 65 million years long and would mean that God is still resting (and we got a long way to go before he stops).
Now this word translated into "rest" is the hebrew word for Sabbath (shä·vath') and it is also the root word for the other hebrew sabbath words like shab·bäth' and shab·bä·thōn'; they all can be translated into English as sabbath (and all are with the translations I looked at). This word shä·vath' when used outside of the context of the sabbath means things like to stop, cease, put an end to, remove, exclude, etc.... It of course also can mean rest but the more popular meanings are not rest but the former words. God of course does not need to rest because he lacks nothing thus lacks the need for rest (and any other need) so perhaps on the seventh day God didn't rest but instead he just stopped creating. But again that puts us into the same question... is God still in his seventh day and just sort of stopped? This would go along with these beliefs that God just set us up and has forgotten about us.
Perhaps God is in the seventh day still but his "resting" is just limited to creating but he still is a part of his creation there is just nothing new coming out. Or perhaps the seventh day is over which would suggest God is no longer resting and is "back on the horse" I suppose the question really is what is God resting from and is he still resting and when (or if) he is done resting what will he start doing?
On the sixth day of course we see man is created and then in Genesis 2:2 we see God taking the seventh day and resting. So man was living and breathing while God was resting.
Some people think of these "days" of creation like ages or large spans of time. Like the verse in 2 Peter 3:8 "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." And this may help to agree with our evolutionist friends who say the earth is 4.54 billion years. Now a more literal biblical interpretation to how old the earth is would put the earth at about 5700 to a max of 10000 years old. Even at the largest number the 10000 years puts a very small dent in 4.54 billion years.
So lets assume the earth is 4.54 billion years and the biblical time-line (we will say after creation) is about 10000 years. Well the 10000 really doesn't do anything to the 4.54 billion so in the interest of rounding we will just cancel it out all together. lets then take the 4.54 billion and divide it into 7 pieces... well again in the interest of rounding you get around 65 million. So if each of these "days" were all equal and the earth is 4.54 billion years old these days would be about 65 million years long. And this would also mean the seventh day is also 65 million years long and would mean that God is still resting (and we got a long way to go before he stops).
Now this word translated into "rest" is the hebrew word for Sabbath (shä·vath') and it is also the root word for the other hebrew sabbath words like shab·bäth' and shab·bä·thōn'; they all can be translated into English as sabbath (and all are with the translations I looked at). This word shä·vath' when used outside of the context of the sabbath means things like to stop, cease, put an end to, remove, exclude, etc.... It of course also can mean rest but the more popular meanings are not rest but the former words. God of course does not need to rest because he lacks nothing thus lacks the need for rest (and any other need) so perhaps on the seventh day God didn't rest but instead he just stopped creating. But again that puts us into the same question... is God still in his seventh day and just sort of stopped? This would go along with these beliefs that God just set us up and has forgotten about us.
Perhaps God is in the seventh day still but his "resting" is just limited to creating but he still is a part of his creation there is just nothing new coming out. Or perhaps the seventh day is over which would suggest God is no longer resting and is "back on the horse" I suppose the question really is what is God resting from and is he still resting and when (or if) he is done resting what will he start doing?
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Reread my post. You have misunderstood what I said.
