15 Aug '12 15:29>
Originally posted by jaywillDoes any of your mental gymnastics change that it says he RESTED? Of course, you are free to continue your "spin" but you are doing the bible no favors. Tell me, why does your all powerful god need the help of a puny human?Looks to me like it says quite clearly that he rested from his work work being the key word you apparently missed.
The Hebrew word there can mean simply decist or cease or put an end to.
It does not have to signify any physical exhaustion.
I don't stop my reading of the revelation of the Bible with this passage.
I gather addition ...[text shortened]... ] long before the inception of the birth of Christ or the inception of the Christian church.