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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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Is this verse in Ezekiel 21:10 obscure due to difficulties in the Hebrew text? If so, how are those difficulties best explained
Below is a pared down interlinear of the segment in question, taken from biblehub.com (Interlinear). Though I’m not conversant in Hebrew, I’ll try to present the translation issues of Ezekiel 21:10 as ...
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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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What is the true meaning of "śûaḥ" (meditate?) in Genesis 24:63?
In answering your question the new (and quite wonderful) commentary for the BHQ gives this answer:
24:63 לָשׂ֥וּחַ The present hapax has been treated intensively by
modern commentaries (for which see ...
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What is the only way to see God and live?
The scriptures state that those who walk in justice will indeed see the face of God and live. There is also a famous case that provides the exception to the rule that one cannot see the face of God ...
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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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What is the only way to see God and live?
Many examples of apparent contradiction in human speech come from the fact that words are being used in different ways. I believe this is one of them.
The idea that men cannot see God makes sense. The ...
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Is this verse in Ezekiel 21:10 obscure due to difficulties in the Hebrew text? If so, how are those difficulties best explained
Ellicott succinctly sums up the difficulties in translation of Eze 21:10:
There is, however, serious difficulty as to the construction and
meaning of the clause. The ancient versions and many ...
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What is the only way to see God and live?
This is not as straight-forward as the OP implies. I note the following that clearly say that no one has seen God:
John 1:18 - No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he ...
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How do we know there should be commas in between the titles in Isaiah 9:6?
To be a single title, one would expect eight nouns to make a noun-train. But what we actually have in Isa 9:6 is: noun, verb, noun, adjective, compound noun, noun-noun; the last two nouns are jointed ...
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Is there a symbolic meaning to 'possessing the gates of your enemies' in the Hebrew language?
I think Jesus was probably referring to this very promise when He said:
“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
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Is God speaking to Jesus Christ in Genesis 1:3?
John 1:4-5
4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John is obviously referencing Genesis.
Genesis 1 In the ...
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In Isaiah 6:2 whose face and feet are the Seraphim covering with their wings?
I've been meditating on this text for the last year. My proposal is that the cherubim's face is a representation of it's beauty/glory and it's legs are representation of its power and might.
Knowing ...
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Image vs likeness in Genesis 1:26
Image - comparable to the pre-incarnate Christ found in the Old Testament (Christophany as in the Lord that appeared to Abraham just before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah) and the incarnate ...
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Deuteronomy 18:15 "from among your midst, from your brothers"
מֵאַחֶיךָ (“from among you” or “from your midst”) is further specified by מֵאַחֶיךָ (“from your brothers”). מֵאַחֶיךָ is the general and מֵאַחֶיךָ the particular.
The audience is “all Israel”.1 ...
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Ancient Bible Hebrew Deuteronomy 18:15
This is a more precise translation:
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like myself; him you shall heed. (Deut. 18:15, JPS1985)
מִקִּרְבְּךָ֤ - from among/...
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Deuteronomy 18:15 "from among your midst, from your brothers"
As you well-mentioned, מִקִּרְבְּךָ֤ and מֵאַחֶ֙יךָ֙ are in apposition to each other. More specifically, they are in a parallel construction (as we bump into so often in Hebrew). There are three ...
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What is the significance of Psalm 119:168 having נֶגְדֶּֽךָ (before you) instead of לְפָנֶ֥יךָ (before you) as in Psalm 102:28?
There is very little difference between the two words in practice. BDB lists this passage specifically:
a. locally (rather stronger and distincter than לִפְנֵי), (a) Gn 31:32
נֶגֶד אַחֵינוּ הַכֶּר־...
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How is the New World Translation's usage of "Jehovah" controversial?
God's name has been used in the Scriptures since the Scriptures were written, so nobody should really be surprised that some still use it. I find it more sensational that most don’t.
The NWT ...
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Haggai 2:21-23 fulfilled, failed or a future event?
This prophecy was fulfilled.
520-515 BC Zerubbabel built the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
The Second Temple (see Ezra 1 to 6) was a shadow of its former glory but, hundreds of years later, Herod would ...
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