- 11 Mar 2016 22:33
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To Bosoeker:
No, There were two different time periods referred to in those scriptures. One is the six day creation period and the other period was the year long flood of Noah's day and after.
You should not assume that God needs rest even if He does for that was not the point made by the text. The day of rest refers to the day after creation in which God was at rest from the non-stop six day and night of constant creation. It simply means that God finished His creation work that he started six days before.
The command for man to rest after six days of work and to rest on the seventh was so man would remember the creation week and honor God on the seventh day as a Sabbath to the Creator and Lord. Jesus and his disciple were often accused of breaking the Sabbath because they picked fruit to eat or Jesus healed someone on the Sabbath.
In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working."
(John 5:17 NIV)
Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
(Mark 2:27-28 NIV)
The idea behind the statement that God created evil actually means that it is God that determines and defines what is good and what is evil. In the language of the time they say God creates good and evil or is the author of good and evil, because ultimately God is the Judge and determines what is good and what is evil.
No, There were two different time periods referred to in those scriptures. One is the six day creation period and the other period was the year long flood of Noah's day and after.
You should not assume that God needs rest even if He does for that was not the point made by the text. The day of rest refers to the day after creation in which God was at rest from the non-stop six day and night of constant creation. It simply means that God finished His creation work that he started six days before.
The command for man to rest after six days of work and to rest on the seventh was so man would remember the creation week and honor God on the seventh day as a Sabbath to the Creator and Lord. Jesus and his disciple were often accused of breaking the Sabbath because they picked fruit to eat or Jesus healed someone on the Sabbath.
In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working."
(John 5:17 NIV)
Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
(Mark 2:27-28 NIV)
The idea behind the statement that God created evil actually means that it is God that determines and defines what is good and what is evil. In the language of the time they say God creates good and evil or is the author of good and evil, because ultimately God is the Judge and determines what is good and what is evil.
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein