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, 5 And
every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the
field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the
earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and
watered the whole face of the ground. 7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
In
verse 4 we have another use of the word day
as a period of time rather than a 24-hour day. It is also used later in the
Bible for the time of God’s judgment on a gentile nation or Israel.
Isaiah
34:8 For it is the day of the LORD’S
vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
There
are three heavens; the atmosphere, outer space, and, “the abode of God and the
blessed dead,” as I once read it called. The account in Genesis, chapter 1,
refers to the creation of the first two.
2Corinthians
12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen
years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I
cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Of
course the third heaven is not mentioned because it had to exist prior to the
creation of things physical. The sons of God, spiritual beings who are
represented by angels, rejoiced to see the creation of the earth.
Job
38:7 When the morning stars sang
together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Genesis,
chapter 1, presents literally a view of the creation of the physical universe
and biological life.
Verse
5 is another example of how vastly different the earth was at the very
beginning as God watered the seeds of what He created with a mist to water the
ground and there was no rain. There was
no man to cultivate the earth yet. Plant life was created on the third day
while man is not created until the sixth. The Bible seems to suggest that the
water cycle we are used to did not exist at that time by the way the Flood will
be talked about and with the introduction of the rainbow as a sign of God’s
promise not to destroy the earth again with a Flood. Another argument can be
made that just because something is not mentioned does not mean that it did not
happen. The Bible is silent on many things and is written in a way that assumes
the reader has some common sense and real-world experience. It is possible then
that it did rain after man was created and that the rain of the Flood was
noteworthy for its enormity and its catastrophic consequences rather than being
the first appearance of rain. The rainbow after the Flood becoming a sign of
the covenant made by God with the earth might not mean that there was no
rainbows before that.
The
first man was created from the dust of
the ground. Perhaps we moderns can think of that as the elements of the
earth. Man is a creature created from that which was already formed. This first
man became a living soul when God
breathed into him. These are first things, the original seeds of plants, before
they grew, watered by the mist and man becoming alive when given breath. Some
have used this to say that a baby isn’t alive until it breathes due to man not
being a living soul until he breathed
for the first time. But, like the mist that watered the ground the first man’s
entry into the status of living was a one-time thing at the very beginning and
can hardly be considered as a justification for abortion as awareness, the
essence of a baby’s consciousness, or of God’s knowledge of the unborn’s
condition, is present regarding the unborn child from then on.
Regarding
the unborn John the Baptist;
Luke
1:44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of
thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
And
the prophet, Jeremiah;
Jeremiah
1:4 ¶ Then the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying, 5 Before I formed thee
in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I
sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
At
least since Darwin’s time science has grown to theorize that mankind descended,
along with modern apes, from an ape-like creature, through stages of mutations
that helped move him forward from the primitive ape to man in a process of
evolution called natural selection. However, evolutionists also accept the
contradictory evidence that man is vastly different from an ape. For instance,
on the site, macroevolution.net, that postulates the idea that humans are
hybrids, the result of matings between pigs and chimps, it is noted that one
reason for that conjecture is the tremendous difference between man and
primates. Many stark as well as subtle differences are listed on the website
between man and primates.[1]
We
have been bombarded in the popular culture with statements about how we share
98% of our genes with chimpanzees. However, scientists also say we share genes
with the Swedish mudworm so does that mean we are descended from mudworms?[2] Years ago scientists
argued that so-called Neanderthals differed from modern humans by so much that
we could not be related, however, the point spread they noted from a genetic
perspective was no more than that which existed between populations of
chimpanzees and they were still chimpanzees. What lies under the surface is not
the possession of similar building materials but that a bus stop, a tool shed,
a house, and a civic center, while using similar materials are vastly different
structures. So, with genes, it is not the possession of similar genes or the
same genes but the expression of those genes.
In
any event, evolution as the development of mankind from worms to ape-like
creatures to Neanderthals to brain surgeons is a fairy tale for adults who are
justifiably terrified of God’s judgment but just haven’t come to terms with
their terror. Believe the Bible and your hold on truth is secure while modern
man dances like a dervish around you into oblivion.
2Timothy
1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit
of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Man
was created directly by God on the sixth day of creation.
[1]
Eugene M. McCarthy, PhD in Genetics, http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html
(accessed 5.17.2016).
[2]
“Humans Related to Humble Mudworm,” BBC News, 21 Aug 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3170245.stm
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