Genesis Chapter 1 Discussion Page 130

Well I think it was great because this is my first time ever reading this I liked it.

God is infinite...He was before the earth and would be even after...God's display of power with the creation shows He can turn any situation around just by the words of His mouth...wow!

Hi .. I am sikh and I am an Indian. I found bible very helpful. I really wonder we all are the decedents of Noah. We all are equal but 95% people among us do not understand this and they keep on distinguishing themselves.

It's hard for me to believe world is millions of years old, look how God created first two people did not create them as babies. God can do anything.

I need to ask some question regarding bible so can anyone help Me?

God is God of order in verses 21 and 22, the bible dispels the chicken and egg confusion as to which one comes first.

There`s no mistakes. God`s word is correct. The word replenish is the same word given to Noah after the flood. There were a people before Adam...as indicated by the fossils left behind of people and dinosaurs. From scripture and "guessing" these people were not like Adam. They were like the hosts of heaven which serve but I DO NOT BELIEVE they had a will, as you can see in the beginning the Earth was void. God doesn`t create voids. He is a God of order, not of chaos. The first people were destroyed by sin. But they were not redeemed as I do not believe they had an eternal spirit. Genesis is the beginning, but it’s not the beginning story for man, nor for all of creation. There were no dinosaurs in Adam`s time and following the lineage from Adam to the present day is far from millions of years, yet dinosaur fossils date from millions of years back. I WOULD MEDITATE ON this as God is not above wiping out creation due to sin. And waiting for someone else...someone more obedient to be there to commune with us as we live. This generation shall not see the land of milk and honey. God left a whole generation of disobedient Israelites die off so that their obedient children could inherit the promised land.

Does "subdue" extend to include genetic and weather modification? Is "dominion" a little heavy-handed, like an unconditional license to rape, pillage and plunder? I'm not a Bible expert, but would hope that the big guy placed some limitations on granting this generous scope of authority.

It is the beginning of earth and man .IT IS ONLY GOD, JESUS THE ONLY SON OF GOD, HOLY SPIRIT DO NOT HAVE A BEGINNING NOR AN END.

How could the first man understand death as judgment. Adam would have seen animals die! He would know what death was.

My mind went to the extreme in reading this chapter I think that the earth was perhaps an asteroid in dark space, and that God the Greatest, - artist ever!- was so delighted that he ensured everything was put in the right place, perfectly, not temporarily, but continuously with purpose.

It's always good to read the word of GOD.

It's a blessing.

In every undertaking of our life we have the good and the bad part, so as we have the day and night, and without daylight, there is no way for work.

Please, publish more bible verses and submit to my email.

Magnificent translation, although we miss the power to translate it ourselves. It seems to be better as if we do not. Luckily, there it is one.

Beyond my mind, beautiful, we enjoy awakening daylight as such God's creation made the choice in envy to be alike the Creator and was actually not in loving relationship by disobedience (choice). How could the first man understand death as judgment. I think the living in paradise was like Heaven without sin, closeness with God as Friend/Helper + restored by Jesus. By His coming out of death the serpent's head was destroyed? Why does Satan still have that power over lives?

@Arthur,
Depending on the version or simply print, if it is the ‘’¶’’, it just shows the beginning of a new paragraph, as estimated by translators. That’s why it appears in some versions and not in others.
God bless you.

I think that this was a good introduction to Genesis and God's word! Thank you, God!!

GOD bless you for your wonderful work.

As we know GOD either Made or Created all things, When Adam and Eve broke the rules of God and eat of the fruit which they were told not to eat, they caused us all to have to die. Remember God had never said that any of his creation would ever die, but Adam and Eve changed that after being told that they would surely die they did eat of the fruit and for that we must all DIE.

@Peter,
Sure God made all that, but their initial nature was not that wild as they are today, just like man. All that got bewildered with man’s fall, but before that man had dominion over them. ‘’ For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,’’ Romans 8:20 And time is coming, and will come soon, when man will recover supremacy over all God’s creation., that’s why we are battling to obey Him in Christ. God bless you.

If God made everything, it must follow that he made the strep throat bacteria, designed cancer, tsunamis, volcanoes, aids virus, the common cold, etc.. We should be thankful he loves us so much. Could you imagine if he didn't?

Genesis 1:26 has the phrase "let us make man in our image." That phrase is referring to God, the Holy Spirit, and the Son Jesus Christ. They have always existed and always will. In that verse they were agreeing that they "should make man in their image."

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. God created the whole world of people at this time. It is called today, DNA. When God took Eve from Adam, it was a genetic construction of a reverse nature so that man could populate the world using the set up of man and woman. The entire world proceeded from these two. That's why the Bible says through Adam all have sinned. That is how we were separated from God and God promised us all, the Messiah while we were still in Adam. As for our being created in His image I will only guess but perhaps it is mind, body and soul. The body being Jesus, the mind being that we think and so does God. The soul meaning we are living beings that will live with or without God. The mind portion is such as we love our children, God loves us, we want them to prosper, God wants the same...

We should desist from the habit of reading the Bible like a novel, newspaper or philosophy but should seek God's revelation on every verse. Genesis 1:27 is very clear and so is Genesis 2. In 1:27 God "CREATED"[make from nothing] and this man was in the image of God. Bible readers know that God is a spirit. Thus, this man was a spirit-man with both masculine and feminine spiritual nature just like God [think, El Shaddai]. Hence this man 'he-them' could not till the earth. Another interesting observation is this man, 'He-them' could not sin or fail 'cause he was the very image of God. In Genesis 2:7 God 'FORMS' Adam [not create] from the dust and breathed the He-them of Genesis 1:27 into him thus began the war within us. That's why God could not form Eve from the earth but had to take her from Adam. Now, the formed man doesn't have the nature[image] of God thus his inclination toward sin. The African, Chinese, European man etc is not the image of God. How can he be with all his evil, hate, bitterness, carnality, lust etc…

And God say let us make man in our image and likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth. Verse 27, So God created man in his own image; male and female. This creation was the spirit-man clothed by the lively flesh. Though at this point many argued that the author of the book of Genesis only give the summery of the account of the creation of man here and then went further to explain in detail how man was created from the dust of the earth. The argument could not hold water because all animals were created male and female. From the dust of the earth God created them. Secondly, it does not just occur to God to create a woman when Adam suddenly became lonely, because He already wanted man to multiply and replenish the earth. Man cannot multiply without woman. Woman came later after when the man came to really needed a companion. He was subjected to that need by God to know the value of the woman that will soon join her in physical. And God said, 'it's not good for man to be alone.' Like every man Adam also had the experience of a bachelor. So after this creation of the spirit-man, God put him into the physical dust which has became flesh so that man can have contact with the physical things which He has created. After God have created everything, Man came later to have dominion over what He has created. And the Holy spirit allows me to understand that, in a like manner, Christ who is the ruler of all God creation was also appear to the world at the later end to rule over everything God has created. Man is a spirit, body and soul.

It is true from Genesis chapter1 that the "the fear of God is indeed the basis of wisdom". Human beings and all other things are vanity; we are made from nothing and end up becoming nothing. The billionaires of this world need to recognize the fact that, "no mater your riches and wealth, failing to extend their blessings to the needy automatically qualifies them to be the most unwise irrespective of their technical know-how to success". May the Lord help us to admit the word and adopt it as our guide and law in Jesus’ name.

GOD IS ABLE.

When God created everything within 6 days - God meant 6 days -just like the days we experience today without huge gaps of time between.