Discuss Genesis 1 Page 168

I am confused with para 26,27. These sections name fish,cattle and whales. God created them male and female, this reference is before eve and indicates when Adam was created a female was created at the same time.

God did not create the earth to be void, dark and formless.
why do i say that?
this is because it is inconsistent with the nature of God to make something that is imperfect.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights...
So God couldn't have created an earth that would become void and dark such that God would have to bring light and reform it again.
So you may ask? So what is the Bible talking about here in Gen 1:2.
Now understand this...
God created the heaven and earth IN THE BEGINNING; not on the first day.
It was the first day that God started his "creation work on the earth".
But between the BEGINNING and the FIRST DAY that God started working on the earth, somethings were already happening on the earth because God had already created the heaven and the earth. And it was these things that caused the earth to become void, dark and formless. So God came in to reform the earth.
Gen 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. AND the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
God created the heaven and the earth AND the earth was without form...
note that the "AND" there does not necessarily denote a continuation but can indicate a duration between the event before and after.
So I believe God created a perfect heaven and earth with creatures living in it but something happened and the perfect earth that God created became void, dark and formless. So God came in to reform that earth for man who was now going to take over the earth; so I support Insights comment that there was an earth age before this age mentioned here in the Gen 1:2-.
Note: What God told man right after He created him:
Gen 1:28...God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and REPLENISH the earth, and subdue it...
God told man to REPLENISH the earth. God would not have told man to replenish the earth if at a time it did not have life on it before man came. So man had to refill that once filled earth.
You may ask,"what was the earth fill with" You may also ask "what happened to the perfect earth that God created for it to become void, dark and formless". Well I can't go into that now; maybe another time.
But the reason why the Holy Spirit did not reveal it into details to Moses was because this Chapter was talking about man so what was happening before the age of man is not that "necessary".

THE BEGINNING CAME OUT OF ETERNITY: EXAMPLE ETERNITY-(INFINITE DURATION) ITS LIKE A COMPLETE
CIRCLE-[O] (IT NEVER ENDS. BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH, OR EVER THOU HADST FORMED THE EARTH AND THE WORLD, EVEN FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING, THOU ART GOD- PSALM 90:1.
GOD IS ABSOLUTE. HE IS ETERNAL OR SOVERIGN. HE IS THE BEGINNING AND END.WISDOM BEING STYLED AS A FEMALE- PROVERBS 8:1-4. SAYS THE LORD POSSESSED WISDOM IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS WAY, BEFORE HIS
WORKS OF OLD (ANCIENT)WISDOM SAYS SHE WAS SET UP FROM EVERLASTING, FROM THE BEGINNING, OR EVER THE EARTH WAS. WISDOM SAYS "WHEN THERE WERE NO DEPTH, I WAS BROUGHT FORTH; WHEN THERE WERE NO FOUNDATIONS ABOUNDING WITH WATER. BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE SETTLED, BEFORE THE HILLS WAS SHE BROUGHT FORTH:WHILE AS YET HE HAD MADE THE EARTH, NOR THE FIELDS, NOR THE HIGHEST PART OF THE DUST OF THE WORLD" .WISDOM SAYS, "WHEN HE PREPARED THE HEAVENS, SHE WAS THERE- IN OTHER WORDS SHE WAS THERE BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.GOD HAD THE PLAN OF SALVATION FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD- IT JUST DID'NT BEGIN IN THE BEGINNING. CHRIST IS AND WAS IN GOD...AND SO WERE AND ARE WE. MS. THOMAS

THE FIRST MAN ADAM FELL WHEN HE DISOBEYED GOD'S COMMAND. ADAM RECEIEVED A TWISTED LIE FROM THE SERPENT AND IN DOING SO HE BROUGHT UPON HIMSELF AND MANKIND DEATH. HE FIRST DIED SPIRITUALLY THEN YEARS LATER NATURALLY.BEFORE HIS FALL ADAM HAD A PERFECT RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR FATHER. HE KNEW NO SIN- WAS IN THE LIGHT.DEATH CAME UPON ALL THROUGH
THE FALL ADAM'S HUMAN NATURE CAME ALIVE- DESIRING
TO BE LIKE GOD-AND HIS SELFISH NATURE- CARNAL MINDSET COULD NOT REMAIN IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. SO HE WAS DRIVEN OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
BUT GOD HAD A PLAN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD- TO RESTORE MANKIND TO HIS ORIGINAL STATE.
TO GIVE HIM BACK HIS AUTHORITY AND DOMINION IN THE BEGINNING- ( GENESIS 1:26-28)
GENESIS 3:15- AND I WILL PUT ENMITY(HATRED,
HOSTILITY) BETWEEN THEE AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN THY THY SEED (DEMONS) AND HER SEED ;(JESUS) IT SHALL BRUISE THY HEAD, AND THOU SHALT BRUISE HIS HEEL. (THIS IS THE VICTORY RIGHT HERE)
BECAUSE WHEN JESUS GAME HE DIED FOR THE SINS OF ALL THE WORLD. THAT WE MAY BE FORGIVEN OF OUR SINFUL NATURE. THERE HAD TO BE A RANSOME TO BUY US BACK. THE BIBLE SAYS WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE IS NO REMISSION FOR SIN. THANK YOU JESUS FOR UNDOING WHAT ADAM DID IN THE GARDEN- LORD UNDONE IT ON THE CROSS WITH YOUR BLOOD.
MS. THOMAS

I think after being in Vietnam and other parts of the far east where they raise fish and live that life I saw, that if, your from the far east, maybe so. When God made all the 6th day children and re-plenished the earth He may of just started there. It looks as if He started them first the way the Word reads.

Does it mean the image of God combines all the traits and character of each races on earth. (i.e., chinese, african, whites, indians, etc.) -

until now we are still muddling along the meaning of the word LET US. logically, the word requires nothing but a simple comprehension that it would be very impossible to create man and woman following one singular image and character. i therefore conclude that there was and there is a MOTHER (female), i repeat, A MOTHER GOD. lets free our mind from the doctrine of a singular GOD housed inside the character of SINGULAR FATHER GOD, otherwise, we are decieving ourselves and we are denying the existence of every women, who like our mother, maternally held us for nine months and raised us until were capable of tendering for our own existence.

which the waters brought forth aboundantly; is this in some way stating the life did indeed come from the waters?

the correct word is "fill the earth and subdue it , its speculation contrary to Genesis 1 to think that this Adam was replacement , also Rev 13:8 the founding of the "World " is not the planet but when Adam and Eve had children , the World of people, that God loved

My understanding about the verse is that,God has provided everything for man,but want us to use wisdom to discover them.

This is a heavy scripture and I don't know if you mare of God or The Other One? One thing I will tell you is that was a Spirit at the time of creation and the Earth was created Spiritual first and then He made His Creation! Can you understand this, if you don't then you'll be confused about all else?! Find my Facebook page and write to me?!

with the world as it is you almost wonder why God is as good as he is.It not hard to to figure out that we have gone out of our way to show our unthankfulness. ABut when I read the Bible I see that God is so much larger than our petty views and loves us far beyond any thing wwe could possibly imagine.

the story of earth's creation is deep and i always for sum odd reason find myself back at the creation before i read anything else in the bible

For a being to create something from nothing lets me know that it's more to life than life.

thank you jesus i like becoues it tells alot about in details about how earth and pepole came two be i just thank god for the writing the bibel amen an giveing us a chance two repint and serve him as our father amen :)

God is great.

Dis is a big surprise to d beliver about creation i see frm Gen 1: dan, it has show me how it begin, how it has no end. God is greatful.

I don't understand if the earth was void and without form, where'd the water come from?

"The lamb slain from the foundation of the world" What it means is that right after man sin God offered a sacrifice for them.."A LAMB" Genesis 3:21...And that lamb represented Jesus John 1:29 The lamb slain from the foundation of the world...God bless.

Isn't it amazing how one can look back at Creation and see the same example of God bringing "Light" into this world of darkness!

i will like to let my kids see the movies of the bible king james version. if there is any movies.

replenish is questionable re the beginning of human life starting in Genesis - it hints that there was a people before Adam, and man was to redo what existed before and [replenish] - also another thing that was questionable rev 13:8-. . . the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." show that Jesus was slaim before God created heaven and earth, and it took place 2000 years after?

Genesis 1:1 says In the beginning God created the heaven & earth. meaning God is already there from the beginning of creation, he is existing already because God has no beginning and ending, and God cannot cover by the time, and that is why John 4:24 says God is Spirit!And that is why in ( John 1:1) In the beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with GOD, and the WORD was GOD! and if we jump to verse 14 and the WORD became FLESH in the person of Jesus Christ, the word is none other than God and these word became flesh ( 1 Tim 3:16) God was manifest in the flesh. So God has NO BEGINNING AND ENDING (Book of Revelation.) For you now Venus, i will return to you the question you asking, FOR YOU where did God came from?

I must not comment anything on the Bible because God does not want that,I'm talking to you guys,do not criticise God for anything,seek His wisdom you'll understand everything.

God is d creator of everything including heaven and earth but He himself is not created he is self existing

replenish
(probably) more in the sense of: to fill, as in settling on (about) every continent (regarding humans generally)
replace re humans does not really make sense, unless we (hypothetically) talk about souls (in different kind of bodies)

Nevertheless,
"be fruitful, ..., replenish the earth, and subdue it"
sounds very agriculturalistic, does it not?

The bible is an instuction with wisdom and knowledge for the children of God. Genesis shows how God created the earth in 6 days and rested the 7th. God shows how the light represents Jesus and the darkness represents Satan by dividing the light of the day from the darkness of the night. God had a plan and the earth is that stage. He knew what would happen that Satan and the angels would fall and rebel against him. God's children has dominon over the earth today as well as Adam and Eve did, but do not exercise the power given to us. We sit back and let Satan have his way in the earth today. Yes we need to do and be what God made us for. And that is decipleship and follow the ways of Jesus as he lived upon this earth. We are here to become a son as Jesus is his first born, then we follow in his footsteps. God created a place for us to live and what we are to eat and have dominon over it. All God has created is good. It's what we do with it. Give God all the praise, honor and Glory for loving us so much he sent Jesus and the Holy Spirit to teach and guide us through these last days, becuase Satan know his time is coming to an end and he is running rapid and scared. We have the power and authority over him. We need to pray for guidence and wisdom and pray for your sister and brothers that we all win the race set before us from the beginning of time (THE CREATION). GOD LOVES US. HE DID NOT EVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US. We need to study the instructions he gave to us. THE HOLY BIBLE (King James verison) Live by them, ask the HOLY SPIRIT to help you develope the fruits of the spirit. GOD said by his fruits you shall know them. God's children. GOD BLESS YOU ALL WHO SEEK HIM. JESUS LOVES YOU

Ray,

I don't know if Satan is a homosexual or not. He could be as an act of rebellion. I do believe the Antichrist will be a homosexual though. Daniel 11:37 shows he "lacks the desire of women" which we call homosexuality today. Which in my opinion is why we have the HUGE push for making homosexuality "normal." The television (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), the movies (Brokeback Mountain), music (I Kissed a Girl, by Katy Perry), public education system and children's books (Sally Has 2 Mommies, and the Prince and the Prince), even the p*rn industry (bi movies and lesbian scenes), modern medicine (they were born that way, so it's ok), etc. are all pushing the homosexual movement forward. There are many more examples than these everywhere you turn around. If you yahoo search the phrase "is Jesus gay" you get pages upon pages of people trying to twist Scriptures to prove He was, or just general debate. It has gotten to that point.

Also, leave the churches. The Catholic Church is Mystery Babylon spoken of in Revelation 17. That makes ALL of the denominations her daughters. Flee them all. Don't misunderstand me, the Bible is real, but the "churches" are false. Remember; "many will come in my name, saying I am the Christ. Do not follow them." Yes, they are called Christians. Christians come in His name (Christ) and say He is the Christ. Don't follow them.
Come out of her my people!

if god created the heavens and earth how does man own it? unless its freely obtained. let me know what u think

If God created heaven and earth, where does God come from?