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| Animal Registered user Username: Animal Post Number: 353 Registered: 7-2008  |
Bible quote..... "....for in six days the Lord made heaaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed."(Exodus 31:17). God needed to be refreshed?? Can anyone help me understand this?...Thanks in advance Animal, the curious one | ||
| Freeatlast Registered user Username: Freeatlast Post Number: 601 Registered: 5-2002 |
After I finish mowing my lawn on a Sunday afternoon, I enjoy sitting on my patio, smelling the freshly cut grass, and sipping on a tall cool one while I admire my lawn. I'm not tired and I don't need to rest. It feels great! It is about simply enjoying the fruit of my labor. I see that my work was very good. I think it is referring to something like that experience. | ||
| Lindylou Registered user Username: Lindylou Post Number: 231 Registered: 1-2005  |
Very interesting question and observation: Maybe it's like a Star Wars kind of thing! If God was a computer it would mean: "To renew by renewing the flow of electrons from the cathode-ray tube. To maintain (data in a dynamic RAM) by sending a new electric pulse to recharge the chips." Can't you just picture God and His light saber? It must have taken great energy to create the world, so why would it be far fetched for God to "recharge" after all that energy being expended? Or another definition is to "take refreshment" -which is similiar to Freeatlast's explanation. "Enjoying the fruit of (His) labor." That's a pleasant word picture of God... relishing in His creation. Obviously, I'm clueless. Tis a statement open to some interesting thought. lindylou | ||
| Philharris Registered user Username: Philharris Post Number: 1242 Registered: 5-2007  |
Energy and the expenditure of energy is a component of the physical created universe. God is neither physical nor created. Therefore, it would be another heresy to attribute to him the need to be "refreshed" or to "recharge his batteries". Put another way, he is the "ultimate source" of all energy. In physics, our sun is considered the ultimate source of energy here on earth. Notice what the Bible has to say about the source of light which is directly related to energy: Rev. 22:1-5 KJV And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. Phil |
