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Was God tired while creating the universe?
A day on Earth is defined as the time it takes for the planet to complete a full rotation on its axis, commonly known as a solar day, requiring the presence of both the Sun and Earth.
The Genesis ...
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Was God tired while creating the universe?
Ceased not Rested
Genesis 2 (ESV)
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the ...
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Was God tired while creating the universe?
Moses taught us that God found forming the fictitious world of "Middle Earth" tiring. Rather than saying that his god exhibited this human attribute, pious Christians (and some Jews) argue ...
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Was God tired while creating the universe?
No, the text does not indicate he was tired after creating.
In English, when it says he "rested", that does imply he might've been tired, as you point out. But the Hebrew word is שבת (shabat)...
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Was God tired while creating the universe?
While the biblical evidence overwhelmingly favors the idea that God does not tire, there is at least one passage which states the opposite. Interestingly, it is in Book of Isaiah, whose prophecy in 40:...
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Was God tired while creating the universe?
The answer to the OP's question is explicitly answered (including the context of creation) in Isa 40:28 -
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends ...
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Why is the frequency of the "Lord of Hosts" exponentially greater in the post-exilic prophets than the rest of the Tanakh?
The phrase 'יהוה שבאות' is commonly referred to as the 'battle name' of the Lord. This is because 'hosts' refers to military powers, as seen throughout the Tanakh, but Numbers 10:14 or 1 Chronicles 7:...
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Masoretic apparatus in Psalm 89 of the Stuttgartensia
This is the minor Masorah, which is a collection of notes by the Masoretes. They correspond to the words in the verse which have the little circle above them. The ל here is an abbreviation of the word ...
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Masoretic apparatus in Psalm 89 of the Stuttgartensia
From the Discover the Holy Language web site:
The prefix ל (Lamed) means ‘to/for’.
Both the pictograph and the Biblical Hebrew versions of Lamed depicted
an UPSIDE DOWN staff indicating its function ...
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Elaborate on what Psalm 138:2 "For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name." means
The text is wrong surely? It must be
כִּֽי־הִגְדַּ֥לְתָּ עַל־כָּל־שִׁ֝מְךָ֗ אִמְרָתֶֽךָ׃ with עַל־כָּל־שִׁ֝מְךָ֗ not עַל־כָּלשִׁ֝־מְךָ֗
See Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: A Reader's Edition, 5th ...
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What did the people present, including the Pharisees, hear when they heard Jesus say the Holy Spirit in the unpardonable sin verses?
What the Pharisees thought then was very likely what Jewish rabbis think today.
Jewish Bibles capitalize references to God, but not his spirit.
Isaiah 63:10 has:
"His holy spirit" (Jewish ...
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Where is the location of the "Red Sea" crossing depicted in the events of Exodus? (Exodus 14)
Sea of Reeds is indeed a better translation the Red Sea. Dennis Brachter, writing for The VOICE explains:
The word yam in Hebrew is the ordinary word for "sea," although in
Hebrew it is ...
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What did the people present, including the Pharisees, hear when they heard Jesus say the Holy Spirit in the unpardonable sin verses?
The assertion of the OP about the complete absence of any Holy Spirit teaching before Jesus is untrue. Notice these examples from the OT:
Isa 63:10, 11 - But they rebelled and grieved His Holy ...
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What was David's infant son's age at death?
I’m looking at this in reproductive terms. I do believe that the baby was older than one week. Why?
David would not have laid with Bathsheba if she was bleeding. For those that have had children we ...
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