autumnman writes:
Why don't you walk me through your interpretation of the two creation accounts, if you wouldn't mind.
I'd like to become more familiar with your point of view.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
This is a declared statement. It is either true or false. There is no room for any other answer.
I think because the way man's mind works we find Genesis 1:2 where it is. Man can not comprehend an instant universe. Therefore the seven day of Moses appears next instead of what is supposed to be there.
Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
This verse declares it is the generations of the heavens and the earth.
This verse declares it is talking about
the day that happened at Genesis 1:1.
So the entire story from Genesis 2:4 through Genesis 4:26 is talking about the way things happened in the day the Lord God made the heaven and the earth.
Verse 5 tell us this fresh created earth had no plants, it had not rained and there was no mankind.
Verse 6 tell us the face of the ground was watered from beneath.
Verse 7 tell us God formed man from the dry or loose ground.
God breathed the breath of life into man. No other creature.
Verse 8 God planted a garden eastward in Eden. There he put man.
Verse 9 God caused the ground to produce vegetation. Every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food was there.
The tree of Life was there.
The tree of good and evil was there.
Verse 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden. It parted and made 4 rivers.
Verse 11, 12, 13, & 14 describe the rivers for us.
Verse 15 God gave the man a job to keep the garden.
Verse 16 Man told he could eat of every tree in the garden.
Verse 17 Except the tree of knowledge of good and evil he could not eat from, for in that day he would surely die.
Verse 18 It is not good that man should be alone.
Verse 19 God formed every beast, and every fowl out of the ground. The ground did not produce them God did.
God brought the animals to the man to see what he would call them.
Verse 20 No help meet found for man.
Verse 21 Deep sleep fell upon man, God took a rib.
Verse 22 God made a woman from this rib, and brought her unto the man.
Verse 23 the man called her woman.
Verse 24 the man said mankind would give up everything for woman.
Verse 25 they were man and wife.
Genesis 3
Verse 1 Serpent approached the woman with a loaded question.
Verse 2 woman told serpent they could eat of the fruit of the trees.
Verse 3 Except the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden. We can't eat or touch lest we die.
Verse 4 Serpent told Eve you will not surely die.
Verse 5 Serpent told her your eyes will be opened and you will be as God knowing good and evil.
Verse 6 she took and ate, she gave to the man and he did eat. Man gave up everything for woman.
Verse 7 they knew good and evil. Tried to cover their nakedness.
Verse 8 they heard the voice of the Lord so they hid.
Verse 9 voice asked where art thou.
Verse 10 the man said he was afraid because he was naked.
Verse 11 voice asked who told him he was naked. God then gave man a chance to come clean. He asked did you eat what you shouldest not eat.
Verse 12 typical human blame someone else. He blamed it on God because God gave him the woman.
Verse 13 God asked what she had done. She blamed it on the Serpent.
Verse 14 God didn't ask the Serpent because he would have said it was Satan talking through me. Then He could have asked Satan and He would have said I was just doing what you allowed me to do, so it is your fault. This is one of my wild idea's.
God cursed the Serpent for having been used by Satan.
Verse 15 God then told Satan he would put emity between the seed of woman and him.
Verse 16 God said He would multiply her sorrow in childbirth.
Another wild idea. How can you multiply something unless it already exists?
Verse 17 the man was told he would eat of the knowledge of good and evil all the day of his life.
Verse 18 cursed with thorns and thistles.
Verse 19 man told he would have to work to eat.
Verse 20 Adam = mankind Eve = the first woman.
Verse 21 God made clothes for them.
Verse 22 God said man had become like Him and knew good and evil. Man could not be allowed to eat of the tree of life in that condition.
Verse 23 Therefore God kicked man out of His estate.
Verse 24 God set up a guard to keep the man from getting back in the garden to keep the way of the tree of life.
The next chapter 4:1 through 4:26 gives a little history of what then took place.
There is no mention of day's or night's.
There is no mention of water creatures.
God told the man the day he ate the fruit he would die. He did.
In my previous reply to this message I gave the scripture in Ezekiel where Satan was cast out of the mountain of God.
In Genesis 28:17 it says he was cast down to the ground. The word translated ground is the same word translated earth in Genesis 1:1.
Now as to what happened between Genesis 4:26 and Genesis 1:2 only God and the angels know. Because God does not tell us. I have some pretty wild ideas.
This day has passed and the man who ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil has died.
In Genesis 1:2 we find the earth in a mess. It was void and without form and covered with water.
With all the things that have taken place prior to this situation this could not be the form the earth was in Genesis 1:1.
How did it get in this condition? I have some pretty wild ideas.
But God does not tell us.
It was in a mess and God began to fix the problems.
The first thing needed on earth was some light. God took care of that problem in verse 3.
God then divided the light from the darkness.
It was evening time as the daylight part of this day was taken up between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:5.
So this evening and the next morning was the first day of Moses.
From this time on we have days and nights consisting of around 24 hour periods until we get to the seventh day. The evening and the morning of the seventh day has not arrived yet.
Verse 6, 7, and 8 the waters were divided with a firmament in between which God called heaven. The evening and morning was the second day of Moses.
In verse 9 God gathered water into one place, and let dry land appear.
In verse 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the water's He called seas.
In verse 11, & 12 God said let the earth bring forth vegetation from the seed on the ground it did. No creating involved.
Verse 13 says this was the third day of Moses.
Verse 14 & 15 God said let there be lights in the firmament to give light upon the earth. He did not create them.
Verse 16 God made two great lights. Word translated made means, caused to produce. God caused the great light to produce light and the lesser light to reflect that light.
Verse 17 God set them in the firmament, to give earth light.
Verse 18 to rule over day and night.
Verse 19 Says this was the fourth day of Moses.
Verse 20 Water creatures and fowl brought forth from water.
Verse 21 God did some creating here whales
Verse 22 Creatures told to be fruitful and multiply.
Verse 23 conclusion of the fifth day of Moses.
Verse 24 the earth brought forth the living creature after his kind.
Verse 25 God caused the creatures to produce after it's own kind.
Verse 26 God said let us make man in our image and likeness.
Verse 27 God created mankind in His image a male being and a female being.
Verse 28 God blessed them and told them to be fruitful and multiply.
Verse 29 Declared seed bearing fruit and herbs was for food.
Verse 30 The green herb was for food for all creatures.
Verse 31 This was the end of the sixth day of Moses.
Genesis 2:1 The heavens and the earth was finished.
Verse 2 gives us the morning of the seventh day. Which God took off from His creating work.
Verse 3 God blessed the seventh day. Because He rested from His creative work.
We are fast approaching the evening of that seventh day and the morning will bring a New Eternal Day with a New Heaven and a New Earth all restored back to the glory they had before the first man took the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil from his wife and ate it. Disobeying the only rule God had given him.
The generations of the man created in the Image of God begins in Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Not the day he formed man from the dust of the ground.
God Bless,
"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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