ok yah got me I gotta beat no the dead horse for awhile.
(it just looks like so much fun!)
excerpts from genesis 1&2
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the groundeverything that has the breath of life in itI give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morningthe sixth day.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested [
a] from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
But for Adam [
h] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [
i] and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [
j] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman, [
k] '
for she was taken out of man."
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
ok now first we see on day 6 God created humans both mail and female. on day 7 he rested.
we also see that betwen the creation of Adam and the creation of eve Adam named every living anamal.
I would propose to you that this took more than 24 hours.
I also propose that it is possible that these "days" were not limited to our concept of time.
now I'm bet some of you are wondering where I am going with this.
what if the sixth day was not cuncluded until Jesus finished his work on the cross (hence "it is finished") and the ot sabbath was always a forward looking odservation. what if God's resting on the seventh day was not something that was recorded after it happened. what if it was prophecy adout the messiah. (who then sat down and rested permenately in his seventh day)
seven=# of completion. Jesus said it is finished(completed)(completely completed)