Something of a Joke for Dorky People

[debka_notion]

So, with all this business of creation going around online and differently in my Maimonides class, a thought. So if each of the 6 days of creation took longer than one of our days- then how do we know they didn't take so long that the whole biblical time period was still the day of the creation of man (going with the first creation story's numbering, since that works better, and seems to be the one everyone works from- how Do you harmonize the second one? I know it's doable, never tried it myself. Guess I should.), and this currently is G-d's Shabbat- and That's why G-d hasn't been interfering in the world much lately: it's against whatever qualifies as melakhot for G-d.

That said, this involves accepting a G-d who exists in time, which I'm not ready to do. For G-d to be omnipotent/omnipresent/omniscient, G-d pretty much has to surpass all those dimensional limitations- and Time is just one of them. But well- the idea amused me.

Comments

[ryuutchi.livejournal.com]

I think it works. God's currently taking a nap. Maybe watching cartoons, if S/He's not terribly observant...

[zodiacmg.livejournal.com]

if this is currently G-d's nap, then why did G-d interact with people all the way through the prophets? and with regard to the question about time. As i understand it, time is defined by change - if there is change there is time. And as far as I know, in order for something/someone/G-d to do anything or change anything in our reality, that would require a change at least in the relationship between us and G-d... which would seem to indicate that G-d operates in time. Whether or not G-d is bound by the rules of time is a different story altogether, but as far as I can tell, G-d operates or interacts within time, which would ostensibly mean that to some degree G-d changes...

Miracles & creation

[yemeknight.livejournal.com]

This possibility, that this era is God's shabbat, has crossed my mind more than once. In which case God is currently enjoying his creation.

But I don't think that miracles and prophets count as work. Making the world was real work. Miracles and prophets are toys. I mean, if creation of such things as species and planets is work, how insignificant are we beside that?