coffee4u
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Are we saying that God actually "rested" (and that was due to ..) ? And that a physical fruit corrupted the human nature so bad that God Himself had to intervener to restore it?
God transcends time and Creation is an instantaneous process so, there is no duration. (post #47)
Primary audience of Genesis were the people who lived 3000 - 4000 years ago so, I would expect it to use metaphors. Additionally, Creation is not something that can be explained in human language - no matter how much progress Science makes, it will never be able to explain how something came into existence out of nothing.
God's rest isn't 'Ah lets take a rest on this couch'
He gave the ancients something tangible like small children because they did not have the Holy Spirit. They needed concrete things. God gave them 6 days to work and one to 'rest', the sabbath to worship him. It was the formation of the week but it was merely a shadow, like much of the Old Testament is.
We are supposed to be in God's 'rest' every day because we are called to be far more than the ancient Israelites observing a written law, we are a spiritual people.
Hebrews 4:1
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
The physical fruit corrupted them because of disobedience. Again God gave them something tangible.
Is a man raising from the dead any more of a miracle?
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