I don’t know, ultimately, the answer to that. But what I do see in that account is this: after the six days of creation, God rested on the seventh day and hallowed it. This says to me that the ...
He established it on the seventh day of the week, which is our Saturday. Most Christian scholars have agreed that what God established as a creation ordinance was fundamentally a day of rest in the ...
11 For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.
(Genesis 1:31) On the seventh day, God rested. Yet, as we continue reading in Genesis 2, we encounter a more detailed account: “And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and ...
To be honest, God could click his fingers and everything we see could already be created. Why did he take all day to separate the light from the dark? To show us how we are to live. Humans largely ...