Genesis 1, Part II

3/14/2012
Jack Abeelen
In The Beginning (Part 2)
Genesis 1:14-31

Passage I found interesting:

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27

Man and woman, male and female are created in one verse.

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day."  Genesis 1:28-31"

Difference between Genesis 1 and 2
Tim Keller views Genesis 1 as poetic and Genesis 2 as historical.

Ken Ham views these chapters as follows: "Actually Genesis 1 is an overview of Genesis in chronological order (Days 1-6).  Genesis 2 is by and large a detailed account of the sixth day of Creation."

You see, the word evolution means change. Secularists use the word ‘evolution’ to apply to speciation and what they call ‘natural selection,--which biblical creationists agree with. Speciation and what is called ‘natural selection,’ are what can be observed—but such have nothing to do with molecules to man evolution. There is no new information added into the genes. Secularists also use the same word 'evolution,' to apply to molecules to man--which we would vehemently disagaree with and for which there is no evidence from observational science.Ken Ham
Portion of this sermon I found interesting:

No man has seen Him at any time. God has deliberately worked out of the Bible that anyone would ever get a concept of what He might look like. In fact, He’s hidden deliberately His form from man. He would prefer to be shapeless and formless in your mind. That’s His will. That’s His desire. He doesn’t really want you to think in terms of that. So, you go through the Old Testament, and the Lord shows up as a bush, as a cloud, as a fire, as a theophany, as an afterglow – but really no form to copy because I think God would know we would immediately copy it, wouldn’t we? -JA

So the likeness of God is clearly seen in the life of Jesus, but apparently His physical appearance didn’t wake many people up. Isaiah wrote in chapter 53 that, when it came to being good looking and all, no form or comeliness, no beauty, nothing that would say to you, “Oh look, He’s a good looking man, He must be the Messiah.” After 3 ½ years, Judas had to accompany one thousand Roman soldiers to the Garden of Gethsemane to go, “I’ll kiss Him, I’ll point Him out.” You would think that if He glowed in the dark and really was tall and handsome, you’d have just said that really tall and handsome guy. But nobody gets attracted to Jesus that way because God is interested in a spiritual relationship with us. -JA

And yet, when God made you, and like I said – verse 7 of chapter 2 is the only verse that talks about your body – He makes you in His image, and the image that He makes you, He uses the triunity of Himself. “Let Us make man in Our own image,” and so God made him in His own image. You’re made like the Lord – body, soul and spirit. -JA

When the Holy Spirit moves into your life, you now have a spiritual consciousness. You hear from God. You know God. You understand the things of God. They matter to you. When you are not saved, it’s all about your flesh. It’s all about what I eat and what I wear and what I want and what people think about – “It’s all about me!” It’s the body consciousness. And the problem is, when you were made, you were spirit, soul and body, and the body was last, which is the dwelling place. The minute man sinned, the thing got flipped over, and now we became a body with a conscience or with a mind, and yet the spirit is dead because of sin. -JA

Isaiah 45:18

Isa 45:18  For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

That created = the Creator of. Note how these expressions are heaped together to impress us with the fact that the One Who created all ought to be able to tell us, better than ignorant man, how He created it.
That formed = The Former of. Hebrew. yazar = to fashion.
made = the Maker of.
He created. It did not come of itself by evolution (see App-5and App-8). Reference to Pentateuch Gen_1:1).
in vain = tohu. The same word as in Gen_1:2 ("without form"). Therefore it must have become tohu : which is exactly what Gen_1:2 declares (see note there). In Gen_1:1 we have "the world that then was" (compare 2Pe_3:6); and in Isa_45:2 we have the ruin into which it fell. We are not told how, when, or why, or how long it lasted. When geologists have settled how many years they require, they may place them between Gen_1:1-2. In Gen_1:2-31; Gen_2:1-4, we have "the heavens and the earth which are now" of 2Pe_3:7. Both are set in contrast with the "new heavens and the new earth" of 2Pe_3:13.