Does God sleep?

[Popinjay]

Does God sleep?

Please include your conception of God in your response.

[keith123]

i think so, but he can sleep with his metaphysical eyes open, so none of us can know for sure.

[madnak]

God doesn't sleep, and he's been around for billions of years. Maybe the "problem of evil" is just a result of crankiness and ennui.

[jogsxyz]

Does God have physical form?

[paperjam]

God doesn't sleep.
I don't really believe in God as a conscious being though. But nature doesn't sleep.

[keith123]

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But nature doesn't sleep.

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what about at night?

[bigpooch]

Psalm 121 (vv. 1-4):

I lift up my eyes to the hills -
where does my help come from?

My help comes from YHWH,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip -
he who watches over you will not slumber;
indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

[revots33]

Not sure if he sleeps but 6 million Jews and 100,000 tsunami victims might say he dozes off from time to time.

Anyway, if God really exists as the Christians believe in him then no, he doesn't sleep. Although Jesus slept, but only his "human" part.

[MaxWeiss]

Yes, and he prays to the Flying Spaghetti Monster each night.

[FortunaMaximus]

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Does God sleep?

Please include your conception of God in your response.

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Yes, even entities need their rest, even if it is only every seventh day.

It allows for randomness and regeneration. Even they can't be patient enough to be up every moment in eternity.

The Greek and Roman gods never went away. They just left the party behind to develop itself.

K.

[jogsxyz]

Is god a carbon-based organism?

[keith123]

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Is god a carbon-based organism?

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why do people ask questions like these? same goes for the OP.

you are really wondering about this? and think that we have a better answer than you?

[FortunaMaximus]

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Is god a carbon-based organism?

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What is carbon but evolved hydrogen?

Elemental flow. Wonder what would happen when we swung the gap and hit that stable element island beyond the transuranics?

Yeah, I'm wondering.

[DonkBluffer]

Ehm. If God had a physical form, he would need to be part of the universe, or a universe, and he could get hurt, would die, etc.

But I don't get believing in god.

[FortunaMaximus]

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Ehm. If God had a physical form, he would need to be part of the universe, or a universe, and he could get hurt, would die, etc.

But I don't get believing in god.

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You believe in yourself, DB?

He would fall asleep in the arms of two goddesses. Two behind, one ahead. Redundancy.

[Raydain]

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Does God sleep?

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God doesn't exist in spacetime so no.

[MidGe]

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Does God sleep?

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God doesn't exist in spacetime so no.

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Neither does he exists anywhere else, since existence is predicated on space/time.

[jogsxyz]

But God created man in His image. Therefore God must have physical form.

[madnak]

Only assuming it's the physical component of man that was created in his image.

[jogsxyz]

If there were a god, why would he be restricted to existing in three dimensions? He would be a 4th, 5th or more dimensional being.

[keith123]

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But God created man in His image. Therefore God must have physical form.

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this is what you believe?

[jogsxyz]

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But God created man in His image. Therefore God must have physical form.

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this is what you believe?

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Of course not, I dont believe in god.

[keith123]

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But God created man in His image. Therefore God must have physical form.

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this is what you believe?

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Of course not, I dont believe in god.

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then why would you say God created us in his image?

[jogsxyz]

Obviously I don't believe god created man in his image. It's religious people who do.

Genesis 1-26
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Then God said, "Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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This is from the English Standard version which is closes to modern day english.
If man is like god, then god must be like man.

[jogsxyz]

Genesis 1
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26Then God said, "Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."


27So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

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Forgot to include the next passage.

[Rev. Good Will]

I figured God had to do something like that on the seventh day for rest.

[smurfitup]

i don't believe in God, but a Judeo-Christian God definitely does not sleep.

[MidGe]

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i don't believe in God, but a Judeo-Christian God definitely does not sleep.

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Not even a nap, on the 7th day? What does he do to rest then? Just being smug?

[wazz]

Maybe he sets such strict rules for the sabbath coz that's when he has his snooze and can't watch us.