Creation:
(Genesis Chapters One and Two)
Note: Verses are taken from Greek LXX.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.
Note: Create means: ‘to come into existence’ or ‘to produce something from nothing.’ To make is to produce something out of substance.
The beginning in Gen. 1:1 is not the universe or God’s abode, but just as the Bible says; it is about this heaven and earth.The term ‘heaven’ is not God’s abode, but the sky.
Heaven is the proper translation, but the meaning for ‘heaven’ in Hebrew or Greek, is sky.
The earth is the soil; ground; land, not this planet. The heaven and earth were made from something that already existed.
Genesis 1:2 But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.
Unsightly: nothingness; invisible; not able to be seen. The heaven and earth were made, but were not able to be seen because there wasn’t any light. (Placing a cloth over a table does not make the table disappear or become invisible. In total darkness, the cloth and/or the table cannot be seen, but they are still there).
Unfurnished: empty; unformed. The heaven and earth (contrary to many religious teachings) were not made in a state of ‘confusion, without form, or void’. This was the start of a world brought forth by God and it was being prepared for habitation. It was not yet formed and was empty of vegetation and/or habitation.
Deep: The deep was an abyss (a sea or ocean). It was a large deep body of water.
Moved: hover; cause to experience; impose on. The Spirit of God hovered (imposed) over the water. (Note that the water is not mentioned in the ‘making’ of the heaven and earth.)
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. :4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.
What is this light?
Note: Is the light the sun as some conclude? Would not the light have to engulf the entire sky and earth for it to be divided? Is God the light?
Could the beginning of the rotation of the planet be considered as the cause for this division?
See: LXX Job 37:3 ; John 1:3-:5.
Darkness: When there is no light present, it’s described as darkness. Darkness does not consist of matter; it is the absence of light. One is not able to make ‘darkness’ [the absence of light] more dark.
One can have different kinds of light; [dim light, bright light, sun light, etc.]
Darkness is the meaning [term] that is used to define the absence of light.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Note: Many believe that a day in Genesis chapter one is an era; [i.e. a day is a thousand years period of time].
Questions to consider concerning a 1000 years day period of time:
If a day is an era, why are an evening and a morning even mentioned in Genesis chapter one?
What is an evening and morning in a 1000 years day that can be explained by the Bible?
If the evening and morning are to be considered as an age, where is the Scripture verse changing the evening and morning to a 24 hour day elsewhere in the Bible?
Note: Genesis 1:14 is clear as to seasons, days and years. If the 1000 years day theory is correct only once, then that Biblical year would be 365 thousand years.
Genesis 1:16 states the sun regulates the day and the moon regulates the night.
Did the earth rotate on its axis only once in one thousand years?
If so, would not have all of the vegetation [in due course] on the dark side have died?
When did the earth speed up to one rotation in 24 hours?
What would be the point with all development up to that point,if dead?
With no plant life, what would the animals have eaten after they were made?
With no plant life, what did Adam eat? [The Bible says it was to be vegetation.]
Note: The argument that the earth was rotating on its axis every 24 hours [but the day means 1000 years] so the plants and trees wouldn’t die is irrelevant.
Fruit trees for example need bees for pollination to reproduce.
Animal life was not introduced until the sixth day.
These trees would have become extinct before the thousand years day was over.
Seeds can germinate, but they could not reproduce without pollination.
Adam was made on the sixth day. It was after the 7th day that Adam disobeyed God. Wouldn’t he be at least a minimum of 2000 years old after day 7?
Note: There is no Biblical way to exclude Adam in the 1000 years day theory, because he was made on the 6th day before all was completed.
Is Genesis 5:5 in error stating that Adam died at age 930 years?
Does the Bible contradict itself; or does the 1000 day age theory [erroneously invented by men] contradict the Bible?
The men who lived hundreds of years in Genesis chapter 5 [including Adam] would have lived hundreds of thousands of years if ‘day’ is a 1000 years age.
Again, if the ‘day’ originally had been a 1000 year era, where is the Scripture verse changing it to a 24 hour ‘day’?
A day in Genesis chapter 1 is the same period of time elsewhere in the Bible.
Note: One that stubbornly adheres to the 1000 years day theory can not use the Bible for proof. There is no Biblical evidence or proof that the ‘day’ in Genesis chapter 1 to be longer periods of time, other than 24 hours.
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.
:7 And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament. :8 And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
What is the firmament?
Note: The ‘heaven’ (sky) is not the firmament. The firmament is an expanse that is part of the heaven (sky). The firmament (expanse) is a separation. It is a division between water.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared. :10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas, and God saw that it was good.
Note: The earth is: the land; soil; ground; [not the planet]. The seas are: a large body of water; lake(s).
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit-tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so. :12 And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good. :13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Note: The earth is the soil. It is not the ‘planet’ that brings forth the vegetation, but the dirt.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. :15 And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so. :16 And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also. :17 And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, :18 and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. :19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Note: The meaning for lights in Greek is ‘stars’.
These verses do not say or imply that the stars were made or created at this time.
They divide between day and night.The stars are signs for the seasons because they change position as the planet rotates around the sun. After 365 days, they return to the position where they were at first. This is repeated every year. (Five times, equals five years, etc.)
The ‘stars also’ does not mean that they were made with the two great lights. Only two great lights were made and were placed. (This does not mean the stars.)
Also note that the two great lights are made on the fourth day, not the first.
[The animals from the water.]
Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having
life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so.
[The animals of the earth.]
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so. :25 And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.
Note: Quadrupeds are the four footed animals, wild beasts are animals, and all according to their own kind.
The meaning for cattle is: ‘beasts of burden’. These are pack animals; (cow, ox, horse donkey, etc.) These were made from out of the earth (ground, soil).
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let [us] make man according to our image and likeness, and let [them] have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth. :27 And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.
Note: These verses will always be a ‘verses of controversy’ so one must be determined to allow the Bible to interpret itself. This is most especially important, because most of the theologians and religious leaders ignore what the Bible ‘says and means’ in place of their opinion, and that is usually what Christians choose to believe.
And God said let [us]
There are no manuscripts either in Hebrew or Greek where the word ‘us‘ is presented. Therefore, there is no translation here.
The word ‘us’ has been introduced into this verse from a word that is not there; therefore, is useless to debate.
All Trinitarians will use this nonexistent inserted word as a ‘proof’ that God is plural. The Bible states that there is only one God. (See: ‘Trinity’).
Our
‘Our’ means: our people; our image; our part.
Image
Image means: likeness; appearance; form.
Note: This part of the verse is almost always interpreted as the image and likeness of God (and Jesus Christ), because of the word ‘our’.
Read again what ‘our’ means.
This is not the image and likeness of God (or Jesus), but how God determined that man was to appear; mans image; what man is to look like.
Any Scripture verses that state ‘in the image of God’ (referring to man) are always misinterpreted by those that have been taught that ‘mans image is God’s image’.
Wrong! God does not have an image. See: ‘Image of God’.
Likeness
Likeness means: like; shape; resemblance; similar.
Man
Man in Hebrew is Adam, a human being (not to be confused by the man placed in the garden ‘named’ Adam).
Man in Greek is anthropos. It means man, a human being.
Man in verses :26 and :27 is anthropon which can be men or man, i.e. man (plural) as in man kind; human beings; people.
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed [them], saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
Note: Let [them] have dominion over all of the animals. The word ‘them’ is not in any manuscript. It has been inserted into this verse for theological purposes.
It is man (human beings) that are to have dominion, not ‘them’.
Dominion means: rule; rule over; leader; govern.
The earth belongs to God, but man has dominion of the earth.
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food. :30 And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so. :31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Note: Everything was good.
Genesis 2:1 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them. :2 And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made. :3 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.
Note: All of Gods work was completed, and the seventh day was sanctified.
Genesis 2:4 This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,
Note: Generation is the genealogy of someone or something.
It means: genealogy; lineage; origin; or historical record.
As the verse says, it is a historical record of the origin of the heaven and earth. (History is ‘past tense’).
They were made, not created. In the ‘day’ is the time period [age] in which this was done.
Genesis 2:5 and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it.
Note: This was before the vegetation, before rain had fallen, or man was made.
Genesis 2:6 But there rose a fountain out of the earth, and watered the whole face of the earth.
Note: Fountain means: spring(s); well; running water; streams.
This verse does not mean that this water ‘covered every square inch of the earth’, but that the water was all over the soil.
(Earth: soil.) This water came out of the earth, and is not the same water that covered the entire earth before the land appeared.
Genesis 2:7 And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon [his] face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
Note: (Formed means: molded; fashioned; shaped; frame; made. Dust means: loose dirt, soil dust). Face means: face, (or visage). Breathed means: breath into or on; to blow in.
What is a living soul?
The meaning of a living soul has been interpreted to mean many different things.
The Biblical interpretation for a living soul is: a living thing; a living being; a living creature; a living breathing person or creature.
A soul is ‘that which breathes’. This can be a person or an animal.
What is the breath?
The breath is the element of oxygen, (air).
Note: There are many that wrongly teach that this breath is the spirit of God.
For a Biblical explanation about the spirit of man; [See: ‘Immortal Spirit of Man’].
Genesis 2:8 And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and placed there the man whom he had formed.
Note: The man was placed there, not men. This one man is Adam, (called by this name) in verse :16.
This ‘garden’ is not what many have come to understand (a plot of ground where plants like herbs, fruits, vegetables, flowers, etc. are cultivated). The correct translation is ‘paradise’. Paradise is a place where God dwells (and where the tree of life is).
Revelation 2:7 ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.’
Genesis 2:9 And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.
Note: These trees were not made at this time, as some will conclude. Trees were made on the third day.
The tree of life is ‘life’.
The tree of learning is: ‘come to a perception or realization; to understand; to recognize; to know’.
Knowledge is: ‘what is known’. Good is: ‘good (moral); sound; fit; right; proper; honorable’.
Evil is: ‘wicked; bad; harmful; grievous; worthless’.
Genesis 2:10 And a river proceeds out of Eden to water the garden, thence it divides itself into four heads. :11 The name of the one, Phisom, this it is which encircles the whole land of Evilat, where there is gold. :12 And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald. :13 And the name of the second river is Geon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia. :14 And the third river is Tigris, this is that which flows forth over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates :15 And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.
Note: The Greek manuscript used the word delight in :15 instead of Eden.
Delight means: a place to work; trade; perform; accomplish.
Keep means: guard closely; watch; protect; keep safe; to defend.
Genesis 2:16 And the Lord God gave a charge to Adam, saying, of every tree which is in the garden thou mayest freely eat, :17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.
Note: This is the first time that ‘Adam’ is called by his name instead of ‘the man’.
God charged (commanded) only Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge. This command was not to anyone else, (not even to his wife Eve).
The idea and/or opinion that the woman (Eve) was also told by God not to eat of the ‘fruit’ is contrary to the Bible, because Eve was not even made from Adam yet.
After Adam had eaten from the tree, note what God reminded Adam of. Genesis 3:11 And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat? Eve was not told by God, not to eat. Genesis 3:17 And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat-of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labours, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Note: For Bible study notes on how Adam would die; see: ‘Immortal Spirit of Man’.
Genesis 2:18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let us make for him a help suitable to him.
Note: The statement that the man was alone (in paradise) is not contrary to the verses 1:26-:27. The verses 1:26-:27 is about men and women in general.
The previous verses (:18-:20) and the subject matter is about the first man, Adam. Only Adam was placed in the paradise.
Note: If there were any other people (in paradise) besides Adam at this time is only speculation.
Genesis 2:19 And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it.
Note: ‘Yet farther’ does not mean a repeat or an addition of the formation of animals. It means nevertheless; moreover.
The animals that Adam named were those that were made from the earth (soil), not the water.
Genesis 2:20 And Adam gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild beasts of the field, but for Adam there was not found a help like to himself.
Note: There are opinions, ideas, and teachings that Adam was searching for a mate (wife) in this verse. That is not what the verse says or implies. It only states that there was no one like himself.
The man Adam was the only human being in paradise, and the naming of all these animals occurred only in paradise.
Genesis 2:21 And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof. :22 And God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam. :23 And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband.
Note: It is true that all men are born from women, but the first woman was from the man Adam. She was not born, or made from the earth (soil).
1 Corinthians 11:7 for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man, :8 for a man is not of a woman, but a woman {is} of a man,
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Note: The two shall be one does not mean a merger of the two; the two are one in extension.
Genesis 2:25 And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Note: Science alleges that this planet is hundreds of millions; or billions of years old. That could be true, but how can one prove that? Theory and/or speculation aren’t proof.
But there are enough hard scientific facts to prove that this planet is (at least) thousands of years older than many Christians have been taught by theologians and Bible teachers under the pretense of creation.
It is a belief and teaching by many Christians that this planet and universe are around 6000 or 7000 years old.
It isn’t any wonder why scientists sneer and ridicule the Christian religions, because of this ridiculous (un-Biblical) conclusion.
The un-Biblical theological teaching that the universe and our planet is 6 to 7 thousand years old is a fable.
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