NO WONDER GOD NEEDED A BREAK !

Ross Thompson
3 min readJan 20, 2022

GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY.

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My title is tongue in cheek, because the Bible says, The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary… He did rest after the creation but it was not from exhaustion. (Gen1:1,2) Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

Speaking of the creation; (Gen 2:7) Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being. In our day we know a lot about the chemical and elemental composition of the human body, the functioning of the body, and human DNA. God formed Adam’s body from the ground and breathed into him. His body began its complicated functioning, he became a spiritually alive person, a breathing person, with a soul.

The ground from whence our bodies come consists of around ninety elements, recorded in the periodic table, each of different atomic makeup. It is interesting to note Genesis chapter 1:24 says cattle, creeping things, and every beast also came from the earth. Also, the birds 2:19.

The diversity and number of insects, birds, fish, and animals in the world reveal to us what God was doing behind the…

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Ross Thompson

I am a New Zealand Citizen. living in Melbourne, Australia. I am a longtime Christian. I write kid’s fiction, and have non fiction published on various topics.