To avoid a debate…let’s assume the scripture is legit. Here’s my question…
What did God to the day before he set out to create the earth? What was his project before? And if it really only took 6 days…what’s he been doing since? Surely he’d have gotten bored “just watching” by now.
Seems to me that he’d have an aweful lot of spare time.
Believe it or not, the Talmud addresses this very question. The answer is that He is arranging matches.
Zev Steinhardt
there are so many directions to go from this starting point. decisions, decisions…
A) spare time??? you gotta be kidding me! millions of petitions from humans, day in and day out (and that’s not counting the Foxhole Conversations-type moments). it’s a good thing that God is Spirit…otherwise he’d have to be an insomniac just trying to keep up with all the requests.
B) when we can be endlessly amused/entertained by the flamingly idiotic acts of our fellow species members, don’t you think God could just sit back with a Universe-sized bowl of popcorn and have unending bellylaughs?
C) who says he’s stopped tinkering? microbes and bacteria are changing and mutating very nicely while we watch. what makes you think they aren’t being given a helping hand?
D) then there’s that whole “a thousand years are as a day with the Lord, and a day as a thousand years…” (possible paraphrasing there.)
E) surely He must have done a little time in the Rough Draft Phase. (which could give rise to another whole thread: "Platypus: An Argument for Pre-Designing before Creating, or “But It Looked So Good in the Sketches”?) but seriously, all those checks and balances in natural populations must have required a little advance planning.
lachesis
there are so many directions to go from this starting point. decisions, decisions…
A) spare time??? you gotta be kidding me! millions of petitions from humans, day in and day out (and that’s not counting the Foxhole Conversations-type moments). it’s a good thing that God is Spirit…otherwise he’d have to be an insomniac just trying to keep up with all the requests.
B) when we can be endlessly amused/entertained by the flamingly idiotic acts of our fellow species members, don’t you think God could just sit back with a Universe-sized bowl of popcorn and have unending bellylaughs?
C) who says he’s stopped tinkering? microbes and bacteria are changing and mutating very nicely while we watch. what makes you think they aren’t being given a helping hand?
D) then there’s that whole “a thousand years are as a day with the Lord, and a day as a thousand years…” (possible paraphrasing there.)
E) surely He must have done a little time in the Rough Draft Phase. (which could give rise to another whole thread: "Platypus: An Argument for Pre-Designing before Creating, or “But It Looked So Good in the Sketches”?) but seriously, all those checks and balances in natural populations must have required a little advance planning.
lachesis
ack! $*^%(@# server! it looked like it never posted at all, until i rebooted.
snarls at hardware
lachesis
Personally I think God gets a kick out of watching me go through the day…
“Hey, Look what she does when I do this!”
The old proverb that we know God is happy because he’s playing with us.
When I read this OP, I immediately thought of the Simpsons ‘Hurricane’ episode where the Flanderses house get blown down. As the scene pulls in on the church, the sign outside says…
"God Welcomes His Victims"
Well with all that omniscience and omnipotence he is in a bit of a stick, because he can do everything he wants in no time at all. Leaving him nothing but spare time. Even the creation was mostly spare time, after all an infinitely powerful being wouldcreate heaven and earth in exactly 0 seconds if he wanted to, so the rest of the day must have been spent twiddling the allmighty thumbs. Of course if God exists where there is no time, then that 0 seconds is all that he has to do things in, but that’s digressing into wierdness. Needless to say the omniscience probably helps since tracking the movement of every sub attomic particle in every universe probably uses up a few stray moments, but being infinitely powerful even those moments just add up to 0 seconds, so it must be just dull being God.
Cheers, Bippy
What if we are just one big game of Sims and God pauses the game when he goes to work? Would we know? What if he is a middle-aged chubby programmer who comes home each night to play Sims?
Neat Khadaji, the Universe is what God does in his spare time 
“The hamsters move in mysterious ways”…
But one thing I’ve noted is that whenever anybody makes fun of what God does in a post, that’s one of the posts that always double-posts…this may be a major case of post hoc ergo propter hoc, but I just thought I’d point it out!
Before God created the universe, there was no God.
God always knew that an empty mind is a devils workshop so after creating earth , hell , heaven et al he’s been busy with the correct transporting of people from one place to another