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Rest on the seventh day

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If the Genesis creation account is not supposed to be taken literally, and "day" may mean "thousands of years", then what does God mean when he tells us to rest on the seventh day, as he did?

Are we supposed to rest for one thousand years every seven thousand?

Edit: Thousand should probably be replaced with billion, or whatever number they wish to use. But the point still stands.
 
This "day = era" is a frequently used argument in Christian Apologetics, i.e. those who would have their pie-in-the-sky and eat it. However, the argument is an unconscionable piece of subterfuge that has no basis in scripture. None. Nada. Zilch. The bible makes it abundantly clear that a "day" really is a day (daylight followed by nighttime, followed by daytime). David Mills' book "Atheist Universe" cites the relevant verses, of which there are several. Unfortunately, I don't have the book to hand at present to quote the appropriate material, but can do so within the next 24 hours if sufficient interest is shown.

'Luthon64
 
Or should we be really, really literal and believe that God didn't so much as take a breather for the first 6 days... and so neither should we!

Work 24/6 then rest 24 and repeat. :)

Maybe it just means that, when the job was finally done, God rested. It's not as if he could have been tired, is it?

If the Genesis creation account is not supposed to be taken literally, then all it does is talk of people standing back and enjoying their accomplishments. Rather than living with their nose to the grindstone 24/7.
 
Rest? To paraphrase Dr. McCoy from the execrable Star Trek V: "What does 'God' need with rest?"

Look out for the lightning bolts!

It must be nice to be God. You don't have to do any work unless you want to. You don't have to fear death, or dying, or pain, or terror, or suffering, or sorrow, or worry about being heaved into a lake of lava, or any number of other things.

Must be nice indeed.
 
So if God did rest, what did he do? Play a little Nintendo? Have the lads round for beer and pizza? Read the Sunday Supplements? Polish his sandals?
 
tkingdoll said:
So if God did rest, what did he do? Play a little Nintendo? Have the lads round for beer and pizza? Read the Sunday Supplements? Polish his sandals?
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I believe Eddie Izzard can provide some insight on what God did after creating the world.

Eddie Izzard as God on the creation of the dinosaurs (James Mason voice impression) – “I created the world in six days, and on the seventh day, rested. Eighth day I actually rested as well. Ninth day, rested, 'cause I [rule 8]ing had just made a world, you know. Tenth day, rested... actually I rested from then on, really. Fourteenth day I decided to smoke all the marijuana I had created, just to test the first batch. On the fifteenth day I decided to smoke all the opium I had created, just to test the first batch. And on the 309th day I woke up again, and I decided to create 500 huge monsters that I'd seen just the night before.”

:D
 
"Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy"

which litterally means "remember the seventh day" which is saturday- sabado

as a matter of fact, we get the word "seven" from "seba" or "Shabat"

god, in the bible, just wanted the hebrewas to take one day out of their busy week and dedicate it soley to God

I'm pretty sure the dude up there wasn't telling a people to remember the seventh millenium, but if he did, we're approaching it pretty quickly- isn't it like year 6700 and something in the Hebrew calendar?
 
I'm pretty sure the dude up there wasn't telling a people to remember the seventh millenium, but if he did, we're approaching it pretty quickly- isn't it like year 6700 and something in the Hebrew calendar?
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We should be resting now then! We are in the seventh millenium!

1st = 0...999
2nd = 1000...1999
etc
 
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