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What did God do on the eighth day?

Pardalis

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To me one of the most obvious things in the Bible that shows humans have made it up is the idea that God had to rest after finishing the job of creating everything. Only human beings could have thought of giving God a resting period (how very altruistic of them). Why would an omnipotent and eternal being need to rest?

So I'd like to ask Christians, what came after God's beauty rest? Since he's pretty much done everything he had to do after six days, what's next for him to do? Is he still resting?

I also have a few follow up questions if I may.

-When he was creating the Universe, did he pre-plan it, or did he just went along as it came to him and it just happened to take six days to do it?

-Did he keep a schedule, and if so, has he ever come up behind and had to work harder the next day to get back on schedule?

-Why did he need to rest? Was creating the world particularly strenuous and stressful for him?

-Usually, "resting" is a way to conserve one's energy, so I wonder: if God doesn't rest, or is unable to and can't keep his energy up, and loses more and more of it, does God wither away and die?

Well that's about it. Of course all this is meant half humoristically, these are merely randoms thoughts I had on the subject (and pretty much the most effort I will ever put on thinking about this subject), but I wonder if some Bible literalists really believe all this and if they have thought this through, and if they have answers for these obvious questions?
 
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He spends the rest of eternity laughing his head off at the gullible people on planet earth who think they are made in his image.
 
He made a magical talking leopard and forgot all about us.
 
Pardalis said:
-When he was creating the Universe, did he pre-plan it, or did he just went along as it came to him and it just happened to take six days to do it?
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Warning: derail and pet peeve all at once. What the hell does "pre-plan" mean? Does anyone post-plan? How does a "pre-plan" differ from a just plain "plan"? Has anyone ever engaged in pre-pre-planning? What about post-pre-planning?

You get my drift. [/Warning]
 
SezMe said:
Warning: derail and pet peeve all at once. What the hell does "pre-plan" mean? Does anyone post-plan? How does a "pre-plan" differ from a just plain "plan"? Has anyone ever engaged in pre-pre-planning? What about post-pre-planning?

You get my drift. [/Warning]
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God is a perfectionist. ;)
 
SezMe said:
Warning: derail and pet peeve all at once. What the hell does "pre-plan" mean? Does anyone post-plan? How does a "pre-plan" differ from a just plain "plan"? Has anyone ever engaged in pre-pre-planning? What about post-pre-planning?

You get my drift. [/Warning]
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I've been involved in lots of projects that seemed to be entirely post-planned.
 
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Started working on a patch. Universe 1.01 will be out as soon as it passes QA.
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I heard he was going to scrap the whole thing and start working on 2.0

Also, on the 8th day, he went golfing with the devil.
 
I'm not Christian, but I can give you a Jewish perspective on these... keepign in mind that most Jews believe the creation story to be metaphorical, not literal.

Question 1: Since he's pretty much done everything he had to do after six days, what's next for him to do? Is he still resting?

Nope, he went back to work, doling out prophecies, creating deluges, knocking over Babelian towers, sending plagues, ordering whales to swalloe unruly prophets, destroying Sodom and Gemorrah, etc.

Question 2: When he was creating the Universe, did he pre-plan it, or did he just went along as it came to him and it just happened to take six days to do it?

No idea. God never explained the process.

Question 3: Did he keep a schedule, and if so, has he ever come up behind and had to work harder the next day to get back on schedule?

It's never said He fell behind in His work.

Question 4: Why did he need to rest?

It's never said God needs to rest. In fact, one of the points of Sabbath rest is that you rest whether or not you think you need a rest; you rest because rest is itself a good thing to do from time to time.

Question 5: if God doesn't rest, or is unable to and can't keep his energy up, and loses more and more of it, does God wither away and die?

Since it hasn't been established that God (assuming He even exists) needs to rest, this question is inoperative.

Question 6: I wonder if some Bible literalists really believe all this and if they have thought this through, and if they have answers for these obvious questions?

I can't answer for Biblical literalists, but rabbis thought of and answered these questions nearly two thousand years ago. (And they may have been merely writing down answers someone else came up with centuries before that.)
 
According to the Church of the Eighth Day, that I invented decades ago for a LARP scenario, it's still the Seventh Day. The Eighth Day will be a new divine act of creation that, like each of the past ones, will supersede the previous day's, in this case mankind. So repent, the Eighth Day is coming soon!

Wasn't very catchy. The idea was to re-channel Christian apocalypticism into a more transhumanist "post-singularity" vein, but since there is no way to know the nature of the next act of creation with any certainty, the idea is both too mundane and too vague. There was no prophet in it.

Respectfully,
Myriad
 
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