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Wow, God is so amazing, he wants the best for us.

Thankyou. Merry Christmas. Peace Be With You.

In my understanding, the examples of 'God' in Genesis 2:2, is in the Hebrew, 'Elohim'. This word has a number of meanings & applications, as referring to the true God, or gods, or judges, rulers, etc. Here in Genesis & elsewhere where it's clearly in reference to the God of Heaven, then the word means that God is defined as Almighty, Everlasting & Unchangeable One.

When we look at verse 4, 'LORD God', the Hebrew is 'Yahweh', which defines Him as a Personal, self existent God, the Author of all things, gives expression & effect to His Plans & maintains a relationship with His creatures. So, in using the 'LORD God', or 'Yahweh Elohim', we learn of the fullest expression of Almighty God. Now why the writer has deemed it necessary to use the different Name of God in this context, I cannot tell as there seems to our understanding some inconsistency in their use throughout Scripture.

As far as John chapter 1 & the 'Word of God', here we see that this God ('Theos', a general word for God) has expressed Himself by His Word ('logos', a speech, a Divine utterance) & also by His Spirit (as in Matthew 3:16). So God has always existed & never changed throughout eternity. But at the appointed time ( Romans 5:6), God sent out His Word, giving His Word a body of flesh, for the purpose of bringing God's Message directly to His people (just as the prophets of old did), but this time to do what the Law couldn't do ( Romans 8:3). And that was the giving of the ultimate Gift to man: that God in the flesh (Jesus) would Himself lay down His Life for His people's (& our) redemption.

Why does Genesis chapter 2 begin with GOD did then Switch the name to The LORD GOD? Later GOD is referred to as The Word. I'm aware John 1 refers to the WORD and GOD being the same. Why does Genesis 2 change names? Is GOD and Lord God refering different aspects or just interchangable names before Jesus became flesh?

1 Thessalonians 5:23: "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."

As the Apostle Paul believed & is indeed the case, we are a type of trinity, without any one aspect of our make-up, we cease to be the creation that God made. The 'body' part is easy: we see it & most people give very little thought to any other aspect of our being. Yet, God has given it to us so that the 'real' parts of us can be 'housed' & that both the visible & invisible parts of us are accountable to God, unlike some who believe that we can do whatever we like with & through our bodies.

Genesis 2:7: "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."

Even though the word 'soul' can be used almost interchangeably with 'spirit', I think we should understand it as "the life of a person". And in that 'life' we also have our faculties, emotions, reasoning powers, etc.

However, I see that the 'spirit' given to man is quite different. Proverbs 20:27, "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly (heart)." God gives both man & animals a spirit. In man, God can minister or speak to us. So one might be 'spiritually alive' which means, being receptive to God/to spiritual things, ( 1 Corinthians 2:9-11). Or one is 'spiritually dead', having no spiritual discernment or is so hindered by Satan, that he no longer is moved by God. Of what sort the spirit in animals is, I don't know, except for what Ecclesiastes 3:21 tells us.

But when we die, our spirits return to the Lord ( Ecclesiastes 12:7): we are not only accountable to God for our lives, but also we are indestructible, or the body can be destroyed but the spirit lives on, whether with God or with Satan.

He is our frist kinda savoir

To have The Bible opening every morning 1st before anything else is submitted to this Device The entire book from beginning to end

Genesis 1:27-28 he created Adam first then Eve Verse 31 he saw everything he had made.

According to Genesis 1:20-31, the fish & the fowls were created on the fifth day of creation, and the land animals & Adam were created on the sixth day. After all this, did Eve appear ( Genesis 2:21-25), created out of Adam.

Of the two choices in your question, my preference would be the latter: to wait on the Lord for His provision. And more so, if your first option to actively look for a spouse, entails much 'Church-hopping' or registering on various Christian dating sites. I feel that if our Christian life requires an ongoing vibrant trust in the Lord in all His provisions for us, then there should be little difference when the need is for a spouse. The Lord is aware of all we need & He certainly provides for us in the right measure at the right time; our faith in Him to give what is best for us has to also instil peace in us that He will do it.

I don't believe this waiting on the Lord indicates any laziness on our part, as those who are of such disposition or procrastinators: 2 Thessalonians 3:10. I believe that the Lord delights when His children look to Him & wait upon Him for His very best. My wife & I married in our early 40s (a first marriage for both of us). And we both believed that the Lord had called us to singleness, as she cared for her elderly widowed Father & I in ministry in Pakistan & then in India. Yet, we have proven Proverbs 16:9: that as we plan our course, it is the Lord Who directs our steps.

A senior brother in Christ had called me over to help in teaching about Islam to young Christian Brethren gathered from various assemblies throughout India. They were being prepared to be sent out to serve short-term in various parts of India as evangelists. I also had the responsibility of keeping the Mission's accounts. The 'steps' I took towards that ministry led me to my future wife's home as I had to deliver a letter from her aunt. I was also able to stay in an upstairs room of her home & was able to assist her Dad when she had to be away. So as things progressed in our friendship, we realized that our meeting at this time was of the Lord & we clearly sensed that this was His Plan for our marriage. We've been happily married for almost 25 years, now in retirement.

Did God create the animals before Eve? In other words, was Eve last?

I see your view, Melissa, "In September 2016 the American Government guaranteed Israel $50 billion of military assistance over the next 10 years."

But this is not mentioned in the Scriptures. All we know is that the woman in Revelation 12:1 represents Israel, who gave Christ to the world ( Rev. 12:5) and who will be persecuted severely during the tribulation ( Rev. 12:13).

Question: Are we supposed to be actively looking for a spouse, or waiting for God to bring a spouse to us?

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Jack Gutknecht ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

I have long believed, even before I married, that I as a Christian bachelor the Lord would bring me a woman to marry. I based this on

Genesis 2:22, "And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man."

And it happened almost this way. As a bachelor and single pastor of a small Bible church in southeast Wisconsin, I would take our youth group to a Friday night "Lighthouse" gathering to enjoy music, food, and fellowship with a mixed group of teens and young adults. I played the guitar upfront and my wife-to-be, Phyllis, played the piano. She was good; they called her "Piano Phyllis."

That's where we met and eventually married. I asked the highly respected matron of "The Lighthouse" (formerly, "The Stained Glass Window," both meeting in 2 different churches) if this prospective bride would make a good wife. She said "yes." And the rest is history. I now have a wonderful wife!

Hi Ron. Yes, we've seen similar requests that pertain to God's full 'six days' of creative Work in Genesis 1 and then we see an apparent anomaly in Genesis 2:5. Some have regarded this 'duplication' of man's creation as there being one general creation of mankind (other tribes & people) & then in 2:5, a specific creation of Adam & then Eve. This view then lends support to the apparent existence of the 'cave people' that evolutionists focus on to support mankind's present state, evolving from ape to man.

To understand Scripture in this way, then opens up a another series of questions about this 'other' creation, their relationship to God, their sin (if any), the effect of the great flood & other phenomena upon them, etc. Questions, that we don't find answers to in the Bible, nor any indication that such a dual creation ever existed, as there is never any mention or allusion to them.

My belief is that the Genesis account of creation (chapter 1) is simply to provide us with God's Work of creation over 'six days' & His cessation from creating, on the seventh. Then in chapter 2, the specifics are given, particularly in relation to His sixth day of creation: Man. Since the focus of this early part of Genesis is on Man, any amplification of the creation of the universe, the lights, or the animals had lesser importance.

So here in chapter 2, we're introduced to Adam & told that he would attend to the plants around him & grow crops, the introduction of Eve to be his companion and later in chapter 3, the appearance of Satan to test God's marvellous work. And following chapter 2 to the final Revelation, it's all about Man, his utter spiritual failure & of course, the intervention of God in demonstration of His Love in providing Himself for mankind's redemption & reception into Glory.

I hope I've dealt with your question in the way you expected. If not, then please re-submit for us to consider your further thoughts on this. Every blessing brother.

Chris, glad to see you here! I have a question I would like for you to answer. Im confused as I read Genesis 1:27-29 . and then read Genesis 2:5.where it says there was no man to till the ground. Thanks Chris

Genesis 2:15

"And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."

Genesis 3:24

"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."

John 10:10

New International Version

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full

Genesis 3:4

"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Genesis 2:16

"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:"

Genesis 2:17

"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die

Now the commandments is to love.

Genesis 2:25

"And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."

They lost innocence's they lost what kept them unashamed.

who is the woman that flees on eagle wings? Is it Israel being protected by U.S. ?

Thank you for taking the time to make this reply. It is nice to see others affirming unpopular, yet Biblical truths.

May the Lord bless you as well.

-you're brother in Christ.

Samira, since you've received other responses, I too will add to them to give you some balance & confirmation of your belief. What you read from the Bible & from your own understanding of the two great lights in the heavens, is correct. The Sun, being a gaseous star, produces its own heat & light from nuclear fusion of hydrogen & helium gases. The moon, like the Earth, is just a great big lump of rock, & produces no light of its own but simply reflects sunlight. Just as viewing the Earth from the Moon or from space, the Earth will give off light, but again, not its own light, but reflected light from the Sun.

If this were not the case with the Moon, then the phases of the Moon that we see should just be an optical illusion. But the phases prove that there is something hiding a part of the Moon (i.e. the Earth's spherical shadow). If it were not so, then the Moon should constantly reveal to us here on Earth, a fully lit ball, if it indeed emitted its own light.

And Genesis 1:16, the Hebrew word for 'Light' (maor) is translated 'luminary'. This allows for both the Sun & Moon to either generate their own sources of light or to be reflectors of it. God had provided mankind a light source for both day & night, even if it is only a reflected light from the Moon.

Hello Drew,

Glad to see a brother in flat earth. As this was the beginning of my journey to the Lord. Being led, in a journey, to the truth of our earth. Which led me to read the Bible leading me to Jesus Christ. One thing I've tested myself, as seen, pertaining to the moon shedding it's own light. Taking a temperature gun on a full moon night and seeing several degrees cooler temperatures, on a surface, in the moon light. From what was shadowed from the moonlight. Proving the light from the moon is a cooling light.

Amen brother. Blessings

The moon is not reflected light. It is a separate and distinct light source. Sometimes it can be seen that the sun and moon are visible in opposite ends of the sky simultaneously during an eclipse. The Bible contains no errors. Research our flat earth reality. Read "Heaven & Hell" by Gabrielle Henriet.

"And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." GENESIS 1:16 KING JAMES HOLY BIBLE

You've got it right, and God made it just for us.

Genesis 1

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Why does the bible say two great lights when the moon is obviously a reflected light from the sun?

Genesis 2:6 , says earth was watered from a mist that rose from the the earth,, the flood was the first time it rained from the sky

Genesis 1:29

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."

Reading this verse makes me think that the tree of knowledge of good and evil did not bear seed.

If you're alive, then You are a Living Soul! Genesis 2:7 KJV: "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." Human's are "Living Souls" or "Living Beings". The Body(physicality, physiology , cognizance, mental formations, etc.) + The Spirit( life force, energy) = A Living Soul!

The seventh day is Saturday, not Sunday. The Sabbath was changed by Rome. Yes, the seventh day is significant. Along side the spirit of prophecy, and the testimony of Jesus, the Sabbath, Saturday, the seventh day, is a theme running through the entire Holy Writ. It will play an important role in the "end time" for those that receive the seal of God in the forehead. Those that don't have the seal of God will not keep the Sabbath but Sunday. Sunday worship was done by pagans and the sole reason the children of Israel would've led into captivity for their apostacy. Fooling yourself about what the seventh day is doesn't change the reality God clearly, plainly, and consistently, claimed Saturday His holy day, not Sunday.