What if!! What if Genesis 1 is the "design" stage and Genesis 2 is the "manafacturing" stage? But God does not do things "on paper" because he has this giant "simulator" or "virtual reality" that is like the holodeck (I am reasonably serious so don't shrug yet).
I will be slightly verbose knowing that not all here are famaliar with the two chapters. I have attempted to skip over any "doctrine" and I apologize if any is seen.
In the simulator (vs 1 - called beginning?) He:
2.a "sees" the earth without form or as a bunch of atoms
2.b "the deep" and "the waters" are ...
3 "sees" a need for light generally
4 designed for a day/night cycle
5.a gave the day/night cycle a name
5.b designed for a cycle of days
6 designed a watering/harmful ray protection system
7
8.a watering on the earth and ray protection above it
8.b continued the day/night cycle
9 designed "seas" and "dry land"
10
11 designed "plant" life
12 self perpetuating
13 continued the day/night cycle
14 designed a "lighting/signs/clock/calendar" system for the earth
15-19
20 designed water and air-based "animal" life
21 self perpetuating
22 and abundant
23
24 designed "animal" life
25 self perpetuating
26 designed "humans" to look and act like them
27 male and female
28 a greater than any of the creation so far
29 designed a training course
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1 decided the design was necessary and sufficient
2 defined the week cycle
3 set aside one special day for us to rest from daily labor
4 recaps the design
5 before the real earth
6 in the working simulator.
7 Now, He starts the creation with the first man (life from non-life)
8 and put the plants in the garden in the east of a land called Eden (the water and land are alread there)
9 for beauty and food and education
10 and formed a river to flow into the garden then out to the rest of the world
11-14
15 and put in a trained caretaker (without the status of God)
16-17
18 and without a woman
19.a named Adam
19.b created the animals
20.a let Adam name them
20.b noted that Adam and the yet unnamed woman were not yet together
21 implemented sleep for mankind and made, equal to Adam
22 made a woman
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25 both completely inocent
3:20 and Adam called his wife Eve (since they would now have children?)
So the design took six days with no length of time defined for the creation. I am sure every major craft follows the design/implement strategy. Are these verses intended to teach us to design before we implement?
Thank you for reading. I look forward to your comments.
Bob, Alice, and Eve
™ Version 4.2
