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  1. The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

    Monyash Well Dressing 2009, In the Beginning God Created Man. Clay tablet decorated with coloured petals and stones.

    After the fifth period in creation the sixth session brought forth ‘living souls‘ or ‘living things’ or ‘living beings’ which could multiply, making the earth having more of their sort. They were not in the image of God, but on the ‘sixth day‘ the Divine Creator decided to make some living being after His image.

    This image and likeness of God in man is expounded, Ephesians 4:24, where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness, meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocence, power, etc. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    24 And put on the new man, which 1after God is created unto 2righteousness, and 3true holiness.

    1 After the image of God.
    2 The effect and end of the new creation.
    3 Not fained nor counterfeit. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    Man had received everything in him to be happy living for always. Though he was not immortal. The first living being, “a soul” that would be called “man”, was receiving a higher status than the previous created living beings. Man was made in the image of God, indicating that Adam had some similar elements of God and being in the likeness of the Most High Elohim he received in this way a sort of  “royal authority” to govern over God’s creation.

    All over the world we can find creation myths, showing that the “being” of it makes only sense when there is a reason for “being”. It is that sense of life so many people are looking for. Genesis uses a similar approach found in other ancient documents: Existence depends on function.

    Jackson Wu looks at creation and John H. Walton’s view in this way

    Genesis indeed explains the origins of the world but it tells a particular kind of story. It provides a “functional” (rather than a “material”) account of the world origins.

    and continues with a good example

    If I move beds and dressers out of a “bedroom” and replace it with a desk and file cabinets, what would we say? A “bedroom” no longer exists. I have now “created” a office or study.

    Similarly, Genesis 1 explains how God created the world to be a sacred space, a Temple where He would dwell with his people. This view of Genesis helps us to see who God is, who we are, and God’s design for the world. {When Did God Make China?}

    That original manly being was “to be red” (=Adam). Adam occurs approximately 500 times with the meaning of mankind. In the opening chapters of the Bereshith (the Book of the Beginnings or Genesis), with three exceptions (1:26; 2:5,20) it has the definite article indicating “man” or “the man” rather than “Adam”.
    The first undisputed occurrence of the name of Adam is in the genealogy of Genesis 5:1-5.

    Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel – Catacomb of the Via Latina

    1 This is the 1book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the 2likeness of God made he him,
    2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name 1Adam in the day that they were created.
    3  Now Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a child in his own 1likeness after his image, and called his name Seth.
    4 aAnd the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.
    5 So all the days that Adam lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

    The 1st Adam indicates to be the first living creature of “red blood”  (hence red blooded or adam), flesh and bones. Of necessity that first fleshly creature out of which mankind would grow could be called the first created man or “the man” and the designation is equivalent to a proper name: Adam.

    This first soul or living being, came from the earth, and by receiving the Breath of God came to live. Animated by the divine breath created in the image of God was allowed to have dominion over all other life, animate and inanimate. He is other than God, with no actual physical descent from the Supreme Being or from any inferior deity. Notice also how only by the creation of this human being is mentioned that God “breathed … the breath of life”

    Genesis 2:

    7  The Lord God also 1made the man 2of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his face breath of life, band the man was a living soul.

    8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in 1Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
    9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meat: the 1tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 2and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil.

    Genesis 1:

    Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve — William Blake (1757-1827); William Blake’s illustrations of “Paradise Lost”, 1808.

    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
    28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
    29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
    30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
    31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

    Genesis 2:

    18 Also the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I will make him an help 1meet for him.
    19 So the Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and brought them unto the 1man to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.
    20 The man therefore gave names unto all cattle, and to the fowl of the heaven, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam found he not an helper meet for him.
    21  Therefore the Lord God caused an heavy sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in stead thereof.
    22 And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, 1made he a 2woman, and brought her to the man.
    23 Then the man said, cThis now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called 1woman, because she was taken out of the man.
    24 dTherefore shall man leave 1his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
    25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not 1ashamed.

    Man Made in the Image of God, as in Genesis 1:26 to 2:3, illustration from a Bible card published 1906 by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Divine Creator had out of nothing or out of the blackness created elements which became ordered and received a function. As such the Most High Elohim Jehovah is the One God Who brings order out of (primordial) chaos and as such also being the God of order. [Chaos representing “non-order,” not “disorder.”]

    Man being set in God’s Garden, the Garden of Eden, got the allowance to name the other things but also got the obligation of obedience to the divine Will, in connection with the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

    When you follow the storytelling of creation you shall find God speaking or bringing out words, and then matter came into being. Every time it was God’s Word that brought action and life. Each stage of creation is also approved with the words

    “And God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1: 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, cf. 31),

    and the inference is that the creation of man was its consummation and climax.

    God wanted to have His Kingdom full of plants, animals and human beings in his likeness. He wanted to see a beautiful world where all of His creatures could live in peace with each other.

    The first Adam wanted a partner and God made him one. This person taken out of man, the mannin became the first woman and was to be Adam’s partner giving him children as part of God’s family.

     

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    * Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition

    Preceding article: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

    Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner

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    Additional reading:

    1. Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
    2. The World framed by the Word of God
    3. God’s Word Framing universe
    4. Creation Creator and Creation
    5. Creation of the earth out of something
    6. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    7. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    8. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    9. Genesis 1:26 God said “Let us make”
    10. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    11. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
    12. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    13. Something from nothing
    14. Means of creations
    15. Coming to the creation of human beings in the image of God
    16. Creation of the earth out of something
    17. Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world
    18. Creation of the earth and man #10 Formation of man #2 Mortal bodies and Tartarian habitation
    19. Creation of the earth and man #11 Formation of man #3 Infant salvation and non-elect infant damnation
    20. Creation of the earth and man #12 Formation of man #4 Constitution of man
    21. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
    22. Means of creations
    23. Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement
    24. Creator and Blogger God 2 Image and likeness
    25. Creator and Blogger God 5 Things to tellCreation purpose and warranty
    26. Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His Prophets
    27. We all are changed into the same image from glory to glory
    28. Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things
    29. Creation of the earth and man #2 Evil Angels and moments of creation
    30. Genesis – Story of creation 3 Genesis 2:1-15 Story of Adam and Eve
    31. Creation purpose and warranty
    32. Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation
    33. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
    34. Necessity of a revelation of creation 2 Organisation of a system of things
    35. Story of Jesus’ birth begins long before the New Testament
    36. Man his beginnings or emerging, continuation, evolution and anthropology
    37. Old Earth creationists and other conservative Christians denying any evolution
    38. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
    39. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 1
    40. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 2
    41. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 3
    42. Why God permits evil
    43. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2)—Creation and what follows
    44. Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation
    45. A look at the Failing man
    46. God’s Plan, Purpose and teachings
    47. Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
    48. Because men choose to go their own way
    49. A Must Know Truth
    50. Men as God

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    Further reading of interest

    1. A Unification of Creation and Evolution
    2. We Are Only Complete In Him
    3. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2) – Creation and what follows
    4. Evolution is God’s creation!!!!
    5. Stop Listening to the story!!!Facts on God’s true creation!!!!!!!
    6. The Documentary Hypothesis
    7. The Genesis Sermon Series
    8. Simple Wisdom for Tuesday
    9. Cookie a day: Topic-God The Creator
    10. Breathing In With Adam, Breathing Out to God
    11. A Holy day…
    12. All creation speaks of God’s goodness: Psalm 19
    13. Did You Ever Wonder
    14. N T Wright, Historicity of Adam
    15. Adam: Something is Missing
    16. Two new lessons made October 10, 2016
    17. Were Adam and Eve Historical Figures?
    18. What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 1)
    19. What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 2)
    20. Eve as a symbol for the Church
    21. Why people suffer
    22. Be Skeptical of the One Who Offers You Power
    23. Adamned
    24. Sleep
    25. Hope Thou in GOD

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  2. The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

    Monyash Well Dressing 2009, In the Beginning God Created Man. Clay tablet decorated with coloured petals and stones.

    After the fifth period in creation the sixth session brought forth ‘living souls‘ or ‘living things’ or ‘living beings’ which could multiply, making the earth having more of their sort. They were not in the image of God, but on the ‘sixth day‘ the Divine Creator decided to make some living being after His image.

    This image and likeness of God in man is expounded, Ephesians 4:24, where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness, meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocence, power, etc. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    24 And put on the new man, which 1after God is created unto 2righteousness, and 3true holiness.

    1 After the image of God.
    2 The effect and end of the new creation.
    3 Not fained nor counterfeit. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    Man had received everything in him to be happy living for always. Though he was not immortal. The first living being, “a soul” that would be called “man”, was receiving a higher status than the previous created living beings. Man was made in the image of God, indicating that Adam had some similar elements of God and being in the likeness of the Most High Elohim he received in this way a sort of  “royal authority” to govern over God’s creation.

    All over the world we can find creation myths, showing that the “being” of it makes only sense when there is a reason for “being”. It is that sense of life so many people are looking for. Genesis uses a similar approach found in other ancient documents: Existence depends on function.

    Jackson Wu looks at creation and John H. Walton’s view in this way

    Genesis indeed explains the origins of the world but it tells a particular kind of story. It provides a “functional” (rather than a “material”) account of the world origins.

    and continues with a good example

    If I move beds and dressers out of a “bedroom” and replace it with a desk and file cabinets, what would we say? A “bedroom” no longer exists. I have now “created” a office or study.

    Similarly, Genesis 1 explains how God created the world to be a sacred space, a Temple where He would dwell with his people. This view of Genesis helps us to see who God is, who we are, and God’s design for the world. {When Did God Make China?}

    That original manly being was “to be red” (=Adam). Adam occurs approximately 500 times with the meaning of mankind. In the opening chapters of the Bereshith (the Book of the Beginnings or Genesis), with three exceptions (1:26; 2:5,20) it has the definite article indicating “man” or “the man” rather than “Adam”.
    The first undisputed occurrence of the name of Adam is in the genealogy of Genesis 5:1-5.

    Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel – Catacomb of the Via Latina

    1 This is the 1book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the 2likeness of God made he him,
    2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name 1Adam in the day that they were created.
    3  Now Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a child in his own 1likeness after his image, and called his name Seth.
    4 aAnd the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.
    5 So all the days that Adam lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

    The 1st Adam indicates to be the first living creature of “red blood”  (hence red blooded or adam), flesh and bones. Of necessity that first fleshly creature out of which mankind would grow could be called the first created man or “the man” and the designation is equivalent to a proper name: Adam.

    This first soul or living being, came from the earth, and by receiving the Breath of God came to live. Animated by the divine breath created in the image of God was allowed to have dominion over all other life, animate and inanimate. He is other than God, with no actual physical descent from the Supreme Being or from any inferior deity. Notice also how only by the creation of this human being is mentioned that God “breathed … the breath of life”

    Genesis 2:

    7  The Lord God also 1made the man 2of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his face breath of life, band the man was a living soul.

    8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in 1Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
    9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meat: the 1tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 2and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil.

    Genesis 1:

    Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve — William Blake (1757-1827); William Blake’s illustrations of “Paradise Lost”, 1808.

    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
    28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
    29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
    30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
    31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

    Genesis 2:

    18 Also the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I will make him an help 1meet for him.
    19 So the Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and brought them unto the 1man to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.
    20 The man therefore gave names unto all cattle, and to the fowl of the heaven, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam found he not an helper meet for him.
    21  Therefore the Lord God caused an heavy sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in stead thereof.
    22 And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, 1made he a 2woman, and brought her to the man.
    23 Then the man said, cThis now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called 1woman, because she was taken out of the man.
    24 dTherefore shall man leave 1his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
    25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not 1ashamed.

    Man Made in the Image of God, as in Genesis 1:26 to 2:3, illustration from a Bible card published 1906 by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Divine Creator had out of nothing or out of the blackness created elements which became ordered and received a function. As such the Most High Elohim Jehovah is the One God Who brings order out of (primordial) chaos and as such also being the God of order. [Chaos representing “non-order,” not “disorder.”]

    Man being set in God’s Garden, the Garden of Eden, got the allowance to name the other things but also got the obligation of obedience to the divine Will, in connection with the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

    When you follow the storytelling of creation you shall find God speaking or bringing out words, and then matter came into being. Every time it was God’s Word that brought action and life. Each stage of creation is also approved with the words

    “And God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1: 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, cf. 31),

    and the inference is that the creation of man was its consummation and climax.

    God wanted to have His Kingdom full of plants, animals and human beings in his likeness. He wanted to see a beautiful world where all of His creatures could live in peace with each other.

    The first Adam wanted a partner and God made him one. This person taken out of man, the mannin became the first woman and was to be Adam’s partner giving him children as part of God’s family.

     

    +

    * Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition

    Preceding article: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

    Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner

    ++

    Additional reading:

    1. Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
    2. The World framed by the Word of God
    3. God’s Word Framing universe
    4. Creation Creator and Creation
    5. Creation of the earth out of something
    6. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    7. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    8. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    9. Genesis 1:26 God said “Let us make”
    10. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    11. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
    12. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    13. Something from nothing
    14. Means of creations
    15. Coming to the creation of human beings in the image of God
    16. Creation of the earth out of something
    17. Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world
    18. Creation of the earth and man #10 Formation of man #2 Mortal bodies and Tartarian habitation
    19. Creation of the earth and man #11 Formation of man #3 Infant salvation and non-elect infant damnation
    20. Creation of the earth and man #12 Formation of man #4 Constitution of man
    21. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
    22. Means of creations
    23. Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement
    24. Creator and Blogger God 2 Image and likeness
    25. Creator and Blogger God 5 Things to tellCreation purpose and warranty
    26. Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His Prophets
    27. We all are changed into the same image from glory to glory
    28. Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things
    29. Creation of the earth and man #2 Evil Angels and moments of creation
    30. Genesis – Story of creation 3 Genesis 2:1-15 Story of Adam and Eve
    31. Creation purpose and warranty
    32. Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation
    33. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
    34. Necessity of a revelation of creation 2 Organisation of a system of things
    35. Story of Jesus’ birth begins long before the New Testament
    36. Man his beginnings or emerging, continuation, evolution and anthropology
    37. Old Earth creationists and other conservative Christians denying any evolution
    38. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
    39. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 1
    40. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 2
    41. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 3
    42. Why God permits evil
    43. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2)—Creation and what follows
    44. Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation
    45. A look at the Failing man
    46. God’s Plan, Purpose and teachings
    47. Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
    48. Because men choose to go their own way
    49. A Must Know Truth
    50. Men as God

    +++

    Further reading of interest

    1. A Unification of Creation and Evolution
    2. We Are Only Complete In Him
    3. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2) – Creation and what follows
    4. Evolution is God’s creation!!!!
    5. Stop Listening to the story!!!Facts on God’s true creation!!!!!!!
    6. The Documentary Hypothesis
    7. The Genesis Sermon Series
    8. Simple Wisdom for Tuesday
    9. Cookie a day: Topic-God The Creator
    10. Breathing In With Adam, Breathing Out to God
    11. A Holy day…
    12. All creation speaks of God’s goodness: Psalm 19
    13. Did You Ever Wonder
    14. N T Wright, Historicity of Adam
    15. Adam: Something is Missing
    16. Two new lessons made October 10, 2016
    17. Were Adam and Eve Historical Figures?
    18. What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 1)
    19. What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 2)
    20. Eve as a symbol for the Church
    21. Why people suffer
    22. Be Skeptical of the One Who Offers You Power
    23. Adamned
    24. Sleep
    25. Hope Thou in GOD

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  3. The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

    Monyash Well Dressing 2009, In the Beginning God Created Man. Clay tablet decorated with coloured petals and stones.

    After the fifth period in creation the sixth session brought forth ‘living souls‘ or ‘living things’ or ‘living beings’ which could multiply, making the earth having more of their sort. They were not in the image of God, but on the ‘sixth day‘ the Divine Creator decided to make some living being after His image.

    This image and likeness of God in man is expounded, Ephesians 4:24, where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness, meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocence, power, etc. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    24 And put on the new man, which 1after God is created unto 2righteousness, and 3true holiness.

    1 After the image of God.
    2 The effect and end of the new creation.
    3 Not fained nor counterfeit. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    Man had received everything in him to be happy living for always. Though he was not immortal. The first living being, “a soul” that would be called “man”, was receiving a higher status than the previous created living beings. Man was made in the image of God, indicating that Adam had some similar elements of God and being in the likeness of the Most High Elohim he received in this way a sort of  “royal authority” to govern over God’s creation.

    All over the world we can find creation myths, showing that the “being” of it makes only sense when there is a reason for “being”. It is that sense of life so many people are looking for. Genesis uses a similar approach found in other ancient documents: Existence depends on function.

    Jackson Wu looks at creation and John H. Walton’s view in this way

    Genesis indeed explains the origins of the world but it tells a particular kind of story. It provides a “functional” (rather than a “material”) account of the world origins.

    and continues with a good example

    If I move beds and dressers out of a “bedroom” and replace it with a desk and file cabinets, what would we say? A “bedroom” no longer exists. I have now “created” a office or study.

    Similarly, Genesis 1 explains how God created the world to be a sacred space, a Temple where He would dwell with his people. This view of Genesis helps us to see who God is, who we are, and God’s design for the world. {When Did God Make China?}

    That original manly being was “to be red” (=Adam). Adam occurs approximately 500 times with the meaning of mankind. In the opening chapters of the Bereshith (the Book of the Beginnings or Genesis), with three exceptions (1:26; 2:5,20) it has the definite article indicating “man” or “the man” rather than “Adam”.
    The first undisputed occurrence of the name of Adam is in the genealogy of Genesis 5:1-5.

    Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel – Catacomb of the Via Latina

    1 This is the 1book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the 2likeness of God made he him,
    2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name 1Adam in the day that they were created.
    3  Now Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a child in his own 1likeness after his image, and called his name Seth.
    4 aAnd the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.
    5 So all the days that Adam lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

    The 1st Adam indicates to be the first living creature of “red blood”  (hence red blooded or adam), flesh and bones. Of necessity that first fleshly creature out of which mankind would grow could be called the first created man or “the man” and the designation is equivalent to a proper name: Adam.

    This first soul or living being, came from the earth, and by receiving the Breath of God came to live. Animated by the divine breath created in the image of God was allowed to have dominion over all other life, animate and inanimate. He is other than God, with no actual physical descent from the Supreme Being or from any inferior deity. Notice also how only by the creation of this human being is mentioned that God “breathed … the breath of life”

    Genesis 2:

    7  The Lord God also 1made the man 2of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his face breath of life, band the man was a living soul.

    8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in 1Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
    9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meat: the 1tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 2and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil.

    Genesis 1:

    Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve — William Blake (1757-1827); William Blake’s illustrations of “Paradise Lost”, 1808.

    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
    28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
    29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
    30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
    31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

    Genesis 2:

    18 Also the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I will make him an help 1meet for him.
    19 So the Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and brought them unto the 1man to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.
    20 The man therefore gave names unto all cattle, and to the fowl of the heaven, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam found he not an helper meet for him.
    21  Therefore the Lord God caused an heavy sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in stead thereof.
    22 And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, 1made he a 2woman, and brought her to the man.
    23 Then the man said, cThis now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called 1woman, because she was taken out of the man.
    24 dTherefore shall man leave 1his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
    25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not 1ashamed.

    Man Made in the Image of God, as in Genesis 1:26 to 2:3, illustration from a Bible card published 1906 by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Divine Creator had out of nothing or out of the blackness created elements which became ordered and received a function. As such the Most High Elohim Jehovah is the One God Who brings order out of (primordial) chaos and as such also being the God of order. [Chaos representing “non-order,” not “disorder.”]

    Man being set in God’s Garden, the Garden of Eden, got the allowance to name the other things but also got the obligation of obedience to the divine Will, in connection with the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

    When you follow the storytelling of creation you shall find God speaking or bringing out words, and then matter came into being. Every time it was God’s Word that brought action and life. Each stage of creation is also approved with the words

    “And God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1: 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, cf. 31),

    and the inference is that the creation of man was its consummation and climax.

    God wanted to have His Kingdom full of plants, animals and human beings in his likeness. He wanted to see a beautiful world where all of His creatures could live in peace with each other.

    The first Adam wanted a partner and God made him one. This person taken out of man, the mannin became the first woman and was to be Adam’s partner giving him children as part of God’s family.

     

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    * Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition

    Preceding article: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

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    Additional reading:

    1. Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
    2. The World framed by the Word of God
    3. God’s Word Framing universe
    4. Creation Creator and Creation
    5. Creation of the earth out of something
    6. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    7. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    8. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    9. Genesis 1:26 God said “Let us make”
    10. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    11. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
    12. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    13. Something from nothing
    14. Means of creations
    15. Coming to the creation of human beings in the image of God
    16. Creation of the earth out of something
    17. Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world
    18. Creation of the earth and man #10 Formation of man #2 Mortal bodies and Tartarian habitation
    19. Creation of the earth and man #11 Formation of man #3 Infant salvation and non-elect infant damnation
    20. Creation of the earth and man #12 Formation of man #4 Constitution of man
    21. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
    22. Means of creations
    23. Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement
    24. Creator and Blogger God 2 Image and likeness
    25. Creator and Blogger God 5 Things to tellCreation purpose and warranty
    26. Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His Prophets
    27. We all are changed into the same image from glory to glory
    28. Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things
    29. Creation of the earth and man #2 Evil Angels and moments of creation
    30. Genesis – Story of creation 3 Genesis 2:1-15 Story of Adam and Eve
    31. Creation purpose and warranty
    32. Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation
    33. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
    34. Necessity of a revelation of creation 2 Organisation of a system of things
    35. Story of Jesus’ birth begins long before the New Testament
    36. Man his beginnings or emerging, continuation, evolution and anthropology
    37. Old Earth creationists and other conservative Christians denying any evolution
    38. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
    39. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 1
    40. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 2
    41. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 3
    42. Why God permits evil
    43. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2)—Creation and what follows
    44. Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation
    45. A look at the Failing man
    46. God’s Plan, Purpose and teachings
    47. Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
    48. Because men choose to go their own way
    49. A Must Know Truth
    50. Men as God

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    Further reading of interest

    1. A Unification of Creation and Evolution
    2. We Are Only Complete In Him
    3. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2) – Creation and what follows
    4. Evolution is God’s creation!!!!
    5. Stop Listening to the story!!!Facts on God’s true creation!!!!!!!
    6. The Documentary Hypothesis
    7. The Genesis Sermon Series
    8. Simple Wisdom for Tuesday
    9. Cookie a day: Topic-God The Creator
    10. Breathing In With Adam, Breathing Out to God
    11. A Holy day…
    12. All creation speaks of God’s goodness: Psalm 19
    13. Did You Ever Wonder
    14. N T Wright, Historicity of Adam
    15. Adam: Something is Missing
    16. Two new lessons made October 10, 2016
    17. Were Adam and Eve Historical Figures?
    18. What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 1)
    19. What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 2)
    20. Eve as a symbol for the Church
    21. Why people suffer
    22. Be Skeptical of the One Who Offers You Power
    23. Adamned
    24. Sleep
    25. Hope Thou in GOD

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  4. The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

    Monyash Well Dressing 2009, In the Beginning God Created Man. Clay tablet decorated with coloured petals and stones.

    After the fifth period in creation the sixth session brought forth ‘living souls‘ or ‘living things’ or ‘living beings’ which could multiply, making the earth having more of their sort. They were not in the image of God, but on the ‘sixth day‘ the Divine Creator decided to make some living being after His image.

    This image and likeness of God in man is expounded, Ephesians 4:24, where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness, meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocence, power, etc. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    24 And put on the new man, which 1after God is created unto 2righteousness, and 3true holiness.

    1 After the image of God.
    2 The effect and end of the new creation.
    3 Not fained nor counterfeit. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    Man had received everything in him to be happy living for always. Though he was not immortal. The first living being, “a soul” that would be called “man”, was receiving a higher status than the previous created living beings. Man was made in the image of God, indicating that Adam had some similar elements of God and being in the likeness of the Most High Elohim he received in this way a sort of  “royal authority” to govern over God’s creation.

    All over the world we can find creation myths, showing that the “being” of it makes only sense when there is a reason for “being”. It is that sense of life so many people are looking for. Genesis uses a similar approach found in other ancient documents: Existence depends on function.

    Jackson Wu looks at creation and John H. Walton’s view in this way

    Genesis indeed explains the origins of the world but it tells a particular kind of story. It provides a “functional” (rather than a “material”) account of the world origins.

    and continues with a good example

    If I move beds and dressers out of a “bedroom” and replace it with a desk and file cabinets, what would we say? A “bedroom” no longer exists. I have now “created” a office or study.

    Similarly, Genesis 1 explains how God created the world to be a sacred space, a Temple where He would dwell with his people. This view of Genesis helps us to see who God is, who we are, and God’s design for the world. {When Did God Make China?}

    That original manly being was “to be red” (=Adam). Adam occurs approximately 500 times with the meaning of mankind. In the opening chapters of the Bereshith (the Book of the Beginnings or Genesis), with three exceptions (1:26; 2:5,20) it has the definite article indicating “man” or “the man” rather than “Adam”.
    The first undisputed occurrence of the name of Adam is in the genealogy of Genesis 5:1-5.

    Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel – Catacomb of the Via Latina

    1 This is the 1book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the 2likeness of God made he him,
    2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name 1Adam in the day that they were created.
    3  Now Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a child in his own 1likeness after his image, and called his name Seth.
    4 aAnd the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.
    5 So all the days that Adam lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

    The 1st Adam indicates to be the first living creature of “red blood”  (hence red blooded or adam), flesh and bones. Of necessity that first fleshly creature out of which mankind would grow could be called the first created man or “the man” and the designation is equivalent to a proper name: Adam.

    This first soul or living being, came from the earth, and by receiving the Breath of God came to live. Animated by the divine breath created in the image of God was allowed to have dominion over all other life, animate and inanimate. He is other than God, with no actual physical descent from the Supreme Being or from any inferior deity. Notice also how only by the creation of this human being is mentioned that God “breathed … the breath of life”

    Genesis 2:

    7  The Lord God also 1made the man 2of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his face breath of life, band the man was a living soul.

    8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in 1Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
    9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meat: the 1tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 2and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil.

    Genesis 1:

    Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve — William Blake (1757-1827); William Blake’s illustrations of “Paradise Lost”, 1808.

    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
    28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
    29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
    30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
    31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

    Genesis 2:

    18 Also the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I will make him an help 1meet for him.
    19 So the Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and brought them unto the 1man to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.
    20 The man therefore gave names unto all cattle, and to the fowl of the heaven, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam found he not an helper meet for him.
    21  Therefore the Lord God caused an heavy sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in stead thereof.
    22 And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, 1made he a 2woman, and brought her to the man.
    23 Then the man said, cThis now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called 1woman, because she was taken out of the man.
    24 dTherefore shall man leave 1his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
    25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not 1ashamed.

    Man Made in the Image of God, as in Genesis 1:26 to 2:3, illustration from a Bible card published 1906 by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Divine Creator had out of nothing or out of the blackness created elements which became ordered and received a function. As such the Most High Elohim Jehovah is the One God Who brings order out of (primordial) chaos and as such also being the God of order. [Chaos representing “non-order,” not “disorder.”]

    Man being set in God’s Garden, the Garden of Eden, got the allowance to name the other things but also got the obligation of obedience to the divine Will, in connection with the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

    When you follow the storytelling of creation you shall find God speaking or bringing out words, and then matter came into being. Every time it was God’s Word that brought action and life. Each stage of creation is also approved with the words

    “And God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1: 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, cf. 31),

    and the inference is that the creation of man was its consummation and climax.

    God wanted to have His Kingdom full of plants, animals and human beings in his likeness. He wanted to see a beautiful world where all of His creatures could live in peace with each other.

    The first Adam wanted a partner and God made him one. This person taken out of man, the mannin became the first woman and was to be Adam’s partner giving him children as part of God’s family.

     

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    * Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition

    Preceding article: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

    Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner

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    Additional reading:

    1. Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
    2. The World framed by the Word of God
    3. God’s Word Framing universe
    4. Creation Creator and Creation
    5. Creation of the earth out of something
    6. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    7. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    8. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    9. Genesis 1:26 God said “Let us make”
    10. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    11. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
    12. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    13. Something from nothing
    14. Means of creations
    15. Coming to the creation of human beings in the image of God
    16. Creation of the earth out of something
    17. Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world
    18. Creation of the earth and man #10 Formation of man #2 Mortal bodies and Tartarian habitation
    19. Creation of the earth and man #11 Formation of man #3 Infant salvation and non-elect infant damnation
    20. Creation of the earth and man #12 Formation of man #4 Constitution of man
    21. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
    22. Means of creations
    23. Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement
    24. Creator and Blogger God 2 Image and likeness
    25. Creator and Blogger God 5 Things to tellCreation purpose and warranty
    26. Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His Prophets
    27. We all are changed into the same image from glory to glory
    28. Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things
    29. Creation of the earth and man #2 Evil Angels and moments of creation
    30. Genesis – Story of creation 3 Genesis 2:1-15 Story of Adam and Eve
    31. Creation purpose and warranty
    32. Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation
    33. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
    34. Necessity of a revelation of creation 2 Organisation of a system of things
    35. Story of Jesus’ birth begins long before the New Testament
    36. Man his beginnings or emerging, continuation, evolution and anthropology
    37. Old Earth creationists and other conservative Christians denying any evolution
    38. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
    39. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 1
    40. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 2
    41. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 3
    42. Why God permits evil
    43. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2)—Creation and what follows
    44. Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation
    45. A look at the Failing man
    46. God’s Plan, Purpose and teachings
    47. Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
    48. Because men choose to go their own way
    49. A Must Know Truth
    50. Men as God

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    Further reading of interest

    1. A Unification of Creation and Evolution
    2. We Are Only Complete In Him
    3. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2) – Creation and what follows
    4. Evolution is God’s creation!!!!
    5. Stop Listening to the story!!!Facts on God’s true creation!!!!!!!
    6. The Documentary Hypothesis
    7. The Genesis Sermon Series
    8. Simple Wisdom for Tuesday
    9. Cookie a day: Topic-God The Creator
    10. Breathing In With Adam, Breathing Out to God
    11. A Holy day…
    12. All creation speaks of God’s goodness: Psalm 19
    13. Did You Ever Wonder
    14. N T Wright, Historicity of Adam
    15. Adam: Something is Missing
    16. Two new lessons made October 10, 2016
    17. Were Adam and Eve Historical Figures?
    18. What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 1)
    19. What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 2)
    20. Eve as a symbol for the Church
    21. Why people suffer
    22. Be Skeptical of the One Who Offers You Power
    23. Adamned
    24. Sleep
    25. Hope Thou in GOD

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  5. The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

    Thousands of years ago there was a void, but there also was the Eternal Being that ever was and always shall be, having had no birth and never having an end or not able to die. That divine Eternal Being “That is” or “I Am“, the “I Am Who Am” or the “I Am Who Is” has a Voice and that Voice spoke in the darkness and when it spoke that what it expressed came into being. In this way That Spiritual Being “The I Am that I Am” took care that things came into being. Every time This I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה saw it was alright and when it was good The Cause of Being brought an other thing into existence. Every time The Being “That Is” spoke Its Word became a reality. The incorruptible Word spoken brought into existence.

    It was God’s Power (the Holy Spirit) that brought things to life. It was God His Word which was spoken, brought into reality and was there to stay for ever in truth, never telling lies. As such later in history the carnal beings created by that Most High Eternal Being received in their hands the greatest source of the greatest ideas known to man. First the Word went from one being to an other vocally, but later it became recorded on stone plates, than on papyrus and parchment roles. First those words of the Most High were notated in Hebrew, than Aramaic words and Greek words supplemented the documents written down in the name of God by set apart (holy) men.  This way man got the Scriptures, and for this series on the new or 2nd Adam we shall also look into the wisdom of the theological minds who brought forth the 1599 Geneva Bible Patriot’s Edition, which will enable you to think God’s thoughts after Him because the Bible is His special revelation. Herewith is a resource that you are sure to find indispensable for the study and interpretation of creation as God would have you see it.

    A 1581 edition of the Geneva Bible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Geneva Bible once changed the world. With that Bible man can hold in their hands something that is about to change the world — again. For those who find that bible we ask them to use this Bible with care. Use it faithfully with faith. Then watch God once more do above and beyond all that we can ask or imagine.

    {For this series we use the revised 2010 Tolle Lege Press (United States of America) edition of the 1599 Geneva Bible Restoration Project}

    To come to know why Jesus is so important for us and to come to see who he is and what purpose he served, we have to go back to the beginning of everything. We have to listen to the Word which sounded in the void.

    In Genesis chapter one we are told how everything started and that first of all, and before that any creature was, God made heaven and earth of nothing.

    Genesis 1

    1 God created the heaven and the earth. 3 The light
    and the darkness, 8 The firmament, 9 He separateth
    the water from the earth. 16 He createth the sun, the moon,
    and the stars. 21 He createth the fish, birds, beasts, 26 He
    createth man, and giveth him rule over all creatures, 29 And
    provideth nurture for man and beast.

    1 In the 1beginning aGod created the heaven and the earth.
    2 And the earth was 1,2without form and void, and 3darkness was upon the 4deep, and the Spirit of God 5moved upon the 6waters.
    3 Then God said, bLet there be light: And there was 1light.
    4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated 1the light from the darkness.
    5 And God called the Light, Day, and the darkness he called Night. 1So the evening and the morning
    were the first day.

    The Creation – James Tissot (1836–1902)

    Next we come to hear that it is the only power of God’s Word, His speaking, that makes the earth fruitful, which else naturally is barren. In Scriptures also more than once shall it be repeated that God made all His creatures to serve to His glory and God wanting to see that all is good, but that in the world there is seed, the matter that brings forth new matter, good or bad, depending on how the seed is and where the seed lands, in what sort of soil.

    9  God said again, eLet the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
    10 And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
    11 Then God said, 1Let the earth bud forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed, the fruitful tree, which beareth fruit according to his kind, which hath his seed in itself upon the earth: and it was so.
    12 And the earth brought forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruit, which hath his seed in itself according to his kind: and God 1saw that it was good.

    Too many christians do forget that the Bible also tells us clearly that there were animals and plants before man.

    20 Afterward God said, Let the waters bring forth in abundance every 1creeping thing that hath 2life: and let the fowl fly upon the earth in the 3open firmament of the heaven.
    21 Then God created the great whales, and everything living and moving, which the 1waters brought forth in abundance according to their kind, and every feathered fowl according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.
    22 Then God 1blessed them, saying, Bring forth fruit and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
    23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

    Only after all the planets, waters and earth, creeping beings it became time for an other creeping being of flesh and blood, in a system where there would be light and darkness as instruments appointed to serve to man’s use.

    Every time God spoke, the “soul of life” came into the beings (Hebrew for the “living thing” verse 24).

    24  Moreover God said, Let the earth bring forth the 1living thing according to his kind, cattle, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth according to his kind, and it was so.
    25 And God made the beast of the earth according to his kind, and the cattle according to his kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    It was only after God had commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures, that He said of man “Let us make”, signifying, that He the Most Highest, Who speaks with the ‘Royal We’ (Royal plural or Pluralis majestatis), God

    “taketh counsel with his wisdom and virtue, purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.” (1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    26 Furthermore God said, h,1Let us make man in our 2image according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth and moveth on the earth.
    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
    28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
    29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
    30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth
    upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
    31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

    The Earthly Paradise – Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625)

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    Preceding introductory article: Geneva Bible, Source text for our series on the beginning of Jesus

    Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

    ++

    Additional reading

    1. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyehאהיה אשר אהיה
    2. Hashem השם, Hebrew for “the Name”
    3. Why think there’s a God? (1): Something from Nothing
    4. Where did God come from?
    5. Does He exists?
    6. Attributes to God
    7. El-Shaddai God Almighty Who no-one may see and live
    8. Bible, helmet of health, salvation and sword of the spirit
    9. Bible, sword of the Spirit to come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man
    10. Written down in God’s Name for righteousness
    11. Glory of only One God Who gives His Word
    12. Written and translated by different men over thousands of years
    13. Focussing on oneness with Jesus like Jesus is one with God
    14. See God’s wonderworks and hear His Voice
    15. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    16. The Word being a quality or aspect of God Himself
    17. Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement
    18. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    19. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    20. Creation Creator and Creation
    21. Means of creations
    22. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    23. Creation of the earth out of something
    24. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
    25. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
    26. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
    27. Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things
    28. God’s Word Framing universe
    29. The World framed by the Word of God
    30. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
    31. Creation purpose and warranty
    32. Different principle about the origin and beginning of everything
    33. Cosmos creator and human destiny
    34. Blackness, nothingness, something, void
    35. Nothingness
    36. Something from nothing
    37. Accommodation of the Void
    38. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    39. “Before” and “after” the Big Bang
    40. Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world
    41. God’s Word is like the rain
    42. Other stories about the beginning of times
    43. Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
    44. Is it “Wrong” to Believe that the Earth is a Sphere?

    +++

    Further readings of interest:

    1. Essential Doctrines (Part 1): The Doctrine of God’s Existence
    2. What About Those Who Do Not Know The Name of God?
    3. To Know God in Six Days
    4. The Great Architect
    5. Please!!! Don’t tell me that you honestly think the universe is 6000 years old!!!!
    6. The universe is not 6000 years old
    7. Proof that the Bible cannot be taken literally
    8. Life & Light
    9. Isaiah 41:10
    10. The #Genesis Theory – (Part 1) – YouTube
    11. Creation: In the Beginning
    12. Entry No.1 – A Creation Myth
    13. What happened on each of the days of Creation?
    14. The Divine Presence
    15. God’s Attention Is On You!
    16. Big Bang Theory & Life
    17. In His image…
    18. Be fruitful and multiply…
    19. God-Authenticated Togetherness
    20. Live your life in tandem with God
    21. Law versus Law
    22. “In Christ” #897
    23. What do you have your eyes on?
    24. Science vs Bible
    25. God Turns Darkness Into Light

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  6. The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

    Thousands of years ago there was a void, but there also was the Eternal Being that ever was and always shall be, having had no birth and never having an end or not able to die. That divine Eternal Being “That is” or “I Am“, the “I Am Who Am” or the “I Am Who Is” has a Voice and that Voice spoke in the darkness and when it spoke that what it expressed came into being. In this way That Spiritual Being “The I Am that I Am” took care that things came into being. Every time This I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה saw it was alright and when it was good The Cause of Being brought an other thing into existence. Every time The Being “That Is” spoke Its Word became a reality. The incorruptible Word spoken brought into existence.

    It was God’s Power (the Holy Spirit) that brought things to life. It was God His Word which was spoken, brought into reality and was there to stay for ever in truth, never telling lies. As such later in history the carnal beings created by that Most High Eternal Being received in their hands the greatest source of the greatest ideas known to man. First the Word went from one being to an other vocally, but later it became recorded on stone plates, than on papyrus and parchment roles. First those words of the Most High were notated in Hebrew, than Aramaic words and Greek words supplemented the documents written down in the name of God by set apart (holy) men.  This way man got the Scriptures, and for this series on the new or 2nd Adam we shall also look into the wisdom of the theological minds who brought forth the 1599 Geneva Bible Patriot’s Edition, which will enable you to think God’s thoughts after Him because the Bible is His special revelation. Herewith is a resource that you are sure to find indispensable for the study and interpretation of creation as God would have you see it.

    A 1581 edition of the Geneva Bible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Geneva Bible once changed the world. With that Bible man can hold in their hands something that is about to change the world — again. For those who find that bible we ask them to use this Bible with care. Use it faithfully with faith. Then watch God once more do above and beyond all that we can ask or imagine.

    {For this series we use the revised 2010 Tolle Lege Press (United States of America) edition of the 1599 Geneva Bible Restoration Project}

    To come to know why Jesus is so important for us and to come to see who he is and what purpose he served, we have to go back to the beginning of everything. We have to listen to the Word which sounded in the void.

    In Genesis chapter one we are told how everything started and that first of all, and before that any creature was, God made heaven and earth of nothing.

    Genesis 1

    1 God created the heaven and the earth. 3 The light
    and the darkness, 8 The firmament, 9 He separateth
    the water from the earth. 16 He createth the sun, the moon,
    and the stars. 21 He createth the fish, birds, beasts, 26 He
    createth man, and giveth him rule over all creatures, 29 And
    provideth nurture for man and beast.

    1 In the 1beginning aGod created the heaven and the earth.
    2 And the earth was 1,2without form and void, and 3darkness was upon the 4deep, and the Spirit of God 5moved upon the 6waters.
    3 Then God said, bLet there be light: And there was 1light.
    4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated 1the light from the darkness.
    5 And God called the Light, Day, and the darkness he called Night. 1So the evening and the morning
    were the first day.

    The Creation – James Tissot (1836–1902)

    Next we come to hear that it is the only power of God’s Word, His speaking, that makes the earth fruitful, which else naturally is barren. In Scriptures also more than once shall it be repeated that God made all His creatures to serve to His glory and God wanting to see that all is good, but that in the world there is seed, the matter that brings forth new matter, good or bad, depending on how the seed is and where the seed lands, in what sort of soil.

    9  God said again, eLet the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
    10 And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
    11 Then God said, 1Let the earth bud forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed, the fruitful tree, which beareth fruit according to his kind, which hath his seed in itself upon the earth: and it was so.
    12 And the earth brought forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruit, which hath his seed in itself according to his kind: and God 1saw that it was good.

    Too many christians do forget that the Bible also tells us clearly that there were animals and plants before man.

    20 Afterward God said, Let the waters bring forth in abundance every 1creeping thing that hath 2life: and let the fowl fly upon the earth in the 3open firmament of the heaven.
    21 Then God created the great whales, and everything living and moving, which the 1waters brought forth in abundance according to their kind, and every feathered fowl according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.
    22 Then God 1blessed them, saying, Bring forth fruit and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
    23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

    Only after all the planets, waters and earth, creeping beings it became time for an other creeping being of flesh and blood, in a system where there would be light and darkness as instruments appointed to serve to man’s use.

    Every time God spoke, the “soul of life” came into the beings (Hebrew for the “living thing” verse 24).

    24  Moreover God said, Let the earth bring forth the 1living thing according to his kind, cattle, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth according to his kind, and it was so.
    25 And God made the beast of the earth according to his kind, and the cattle according to his kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    It was only after God had commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures, that He said of man “Let us make”, signifying, that He the Most Highest, Who speaks with the ‘Royal We’ (Royal plural or Pluralis majestatis), God

    “taketh counsel with his wisdom and virtue, purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.” (1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    26 Furthermore God said, h,1Let us make man in our 2image according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth and moveth on the earth.
    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
    28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
    29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
    30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth
    upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
    31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

    The Earthly Paradise – Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625)

    +

    Preceding introductory article: Geneva Bible, Source text for our series on the beginning of Jesus

    Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

    ++

    Additional reading

    1. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyehאהיה אשר אהיה
    2. Hashem השם, Hebrew for “the Name”
    3. Why think there’s a God? (1): Something from Nothing
    4. Where did God come from?
    5. Does He exists?
    6. Attributes to God
    7. El-Shaddai God Almighty Who no-one may see and live
    8. Bible, helmet of health, salvation and sword of the spirit
    9. Bible, sword of the Spirit to come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man
    10. Written down in God’s Name for righteousness
    11. Glory of only One God Who gives His Word
    12. Written and translated by different men over thousands of years
    13. Focussing on oneness with Jesus like Jesus is one with God
    14. See God’s wonderworks and hear His Voice
    15. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    16. The Word being a quality or aspect of God Himself
    17. Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement
    18. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    19. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    20. Creation Creator and Creation
    21. Means of creations
    22. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    23. Creation of the earth out of something
    24. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
    25. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
    26. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
    27. Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things
    28. God’s Word Framing universe
    29. The World framed by the Word of God
    30. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
    31. Creation purpose and warranty
    32. Different principle about the origin and beginning of everything
    33. Cosmos creator and human destiny
    34. Blackness, nothingness, something, void
    35. Nothingness
    36. Something from nothing
    37. Accommodation of the Void
    38. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    39. “Before” and “after” the Big Bang
    40. Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world
    41. God’s Word is like the rain
    42. Other stories about the beginning of times
    43. Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
    44. Is it “Wrong” to Believe that the Earth is a Sphere?

    +++

    Further readings of interest:

    1. Essential Doctrines (Part 1): The Doctrine of God’s Existence
    2. What About Those Who Do Not Know The Name of God?
    3. To Know God in Six Days
    4. The Great Architect
    5. Please!!! Don’t tell me that you honestly think the universe is 6000 years old!!!!
    6. The universe is not 6000 years old
    7. Proof that the Bible cannot be taken literally
    8. Life & Light
    9. Isaiah 41:10
    10. The #Genesis Theory – (Part 1) – YouTube
    11. Creation: In the Beginning
    12. Entry No.1 – A Creation Myth
    13. What happened on each of the days of Creation?
    14. The Divine Presence
    15. God’s Attention Is On You!
    16. Big Bang Theory & Life
    17. In His image…
    18. Be fruitful and multiply…
    19. God-Authenticated Togetherness
    20. Live your life in tandem with God
    21. Law versus Law
    22. “In Christ” #897
    23. What do you have your eyes on?
    24. Science vs Bible
    25. God Turns Darkness Into Light

    +++

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  7. The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

    Thousands of years ago there was a void, but there also was the Eternal Being that ever was and always shall be, having had no birth and never having an end or not able to die. That divine Eternal Being “That is” or “I Am“, the “I Am Who Am” or the “I Am Who Is” has a Voice and that Voice spoke in the darkness and when it spoke that what it expressed came into being. In this way That Spiritual Being “The I Am that I Am” took care that things came into being. Every time This I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה saw it was alright and when it was good The Cause of Being brought an other thing into existence. Every time The Being “That Is” spoke Its Word became a reality. The incorruptible Word spoken brought into existence.

    It was God’s Power (the Holy Spirit) that brought things to life. It was God His Word which was spoken, brought into reality and was there to stay for ever in truth, never telling lies. As such later in history the carnal beings created by that Most High Eternal Being received in their hands the greatest source of the greatest ideas known to man. First the Word went from one being to an other vocally, but later it became recorded on stone plates, than on papyrus and parchment roles. First those words of the Most High were notated in Hebrew, than Aramaic words and Greek words supplemented the documents written down in the name of God by set apart (holy) men.  This way man got the Scriptures, and for this series on the new or 2nd Adam we shall also look into the wisdom of the theological minds who brought forth the 1599 Geneva Bible Patriot’s Edition, which will enable you to think God’s thoughts after Him because the Bible is His special revelation. Herewith is a resource that you are sure to find indispensable for the study and interpretation of creation as God would have you see it.

    A 1581 edition of the Geneva Bible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Geneva Bible once changed the world. With that Bible man can hold in their hands something that is about to change the world — again. For those who find that bible we ask them to use this Bible with care. Use it faithfully with faith. Then watch God once more do above and beyond all that we can ask or imagine.

    {For this series we use the revised 2010 Tolle Lege Press (United States of America) edition of the 1599 Geneva Bible Restoration Project}

    To come to know why Jesus is so important for us and to come to see who he is and what purpose he served, we have to go back to the beginning of everything. We have to listen to the Word which sounded in the void.

    In Genesis chapter one we are told how everything started and that first of all, and before that any creature was, God made heaven and earth of nothing.

    Genesis 1

    1 God created the heaven and the earth. 3 The light
    and the darkness, 8 The firmament, 9 He separateth
    the water from the earth. 16 He createth the sun, the moon,
    and the stars. 21 He createth the fish, birds, beasts, 26 He
    createth man, and giveth him rule over all creatures, 29 And
    provideth nurture for man and beast.

    1 In the 1beginning aGod created the heaven and the earth.
    2 And the earth was 1,2without form and void, and 3darkness was upon the 4deep, and the Spirit of God 5moved upon the 6waters.
    3 Then God said, bLet there be light: And there was 1light.
    4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated 1the light from the darkness.
    5 And God called the Light, Day, and the darkness he called Night. 1So the evening and the morning
    were the first day.

    The Creation – James Tissot (1836–1902)

    Next we come to hear that it is the only power of God’s Word, His speaking, that makes the earth fruitful, which else naturally is barren. In Scriptures also more than once shall it be repeated that God made all His creatures to serve to His glory and God wanting to see that all is good, but that in the world there is seed, the matter that brings forth new matter, good or bad, depending on how the seed is and where the seed lands, in what sort of soil.

    9  God said again, eLet the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
    10 And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
    11 Then God said, 1Let the earth bud forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed, the fruitful tree, which beareth fruit according to his kind, which hath his seed in itself upon the earth: and it was so.
    12 And the earth brought forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruit, which hath his seed in itself according to his kind: and God 1saw that it was good.

    Too many christians do forget that the Bible also tells us clearly that there were animals and plants before man.

    20 Afterward God said, Let the waters bring forth in abundance every 1creeping thing that hath 2life: and let the fowl fly upon the earth in the 3open firmament of the heaven.
    21 Then God created the great whales, and everything living and moving, which the 1waters brought forth in abundance according to their kind, and every feathered fowl according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.
    22 Then God 1blessed them, saying, Bring forth fruit and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
    23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

    Only after all the planets, waters and earth, creeping beings it became time for an other creeping being of flesh and blood, in a system where there would be light and darkness as instruments appointed to serve to man’s use.

    Every time God spoke, the “soul of life” came into the beings (Hebrew for the “living thing” verse 24).

    24  Moreover God said, Let the earth bring forth the 1living thing according to his kind, cattle, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth according to his kind, and it was so.
    25 And God made the beast of the earth according to his kind, and the cattle according to his kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    It was only after God had commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures, that He said of man “Let us make”, signifying, that He the Most Highest, Who speaks with the ‘Royal We’ (Royal plural or Pluralis majestatis), God

    “taketh counsel with his wisdom and virtue, purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.” (1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    26 Furthermore God said, h,1Let us make man in our 2image according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth and moveth on the earth.
    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
    28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
    29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
    30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth
    upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
    31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

    The Earthly Paradise – Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625)

    +

    Preceding introductory article: Geneva Bible, Source text for our series on the beginning of Jesus

    Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

    ++

    Additional reading

    1. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyehאהיה אשר אהיה
    2. Hashem השם, Hebrew for “the Name”
    3. Why think there’s a God? (1): Something from Nothing
    4. Where did God come from?
    5. Does He exists?
    6. Attributes to God
    7. El-Shaddai God Almighty Who no-one may see and live
    8. Bible, helmet of health, salvation and sword of the spirit
    9. Bible, sword of the Spirit to come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man
    10. Written down in God’s Name for righteousness
    11. Glory of only One God Who gives His Word
    12. Written and translated by different men over thousands of years
    13. Focussing on oneness with Jesus like Jesus is one with God
    14. See God’s wonderworks and hear His Voice
    15. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    16. The Word being a quality or aspect of God Himself
    17. Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement
    18. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    19. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    20. Creation Creator and Creation
    21. Means of creations
    22. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    23. Creation of the earth out of something
    24. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
    25. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
    26. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
    27. Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things
    28. God’s Word Framing universe
    29. The World framed by the Word of God
    30. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
    31. Creation purpose and warranty
    32. Different principle about the origin and beginning of everything
    33. Cosmos creator and human destiny
    34. Blackness, nothingness, something, void
    35. Nothingness
    36. Something from nothing
    37. Accommodation of the Void
    38. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    39. “Before” and “after” the Big Bang
    40. Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world
    41. God’s Word is like the rain
    42. Other stories about the beginning of times
    43. Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
    44. Is it “Wrong” to Believe that the Earth is a Sphere?

    +++

    Further readings of interest:

    1. Essential Doctrines (Part 1): The Doctrine of God’s Existence
    2. What About Those Who Do Not Know The Name of God?
    3. To Know God in Six Days
    4. The Great Architect
    5. Please!!! Don’t tell me that you honestly think the universe is 6000 years old!!!!
    6. The universe is not 6000 years old
    7. Proof that the Bible cannot be taken literally
    8. Life & Light
    9. Isaiah 41:10
    10. The #Genesis Theory – (Part 1) – YouTube
    11. Creation: In the Beginning
    12. Entry No.1 – A Creation Myth
    13. What happened on each of the days of Creation?
    14. The Divine Presence
    15. God’s Attention Is On You!
    16. Big Bang Theory & Life
    17. In His image…
    18. Be fruitful and multiply…
    19. God-Authenticated Togetherness
    20. Live your life in tandem with God
    21. Law versus Law
    22. “In Christ” #897
    23. What do you have your eyes on?
    24. Science vs Bible
    25. God Turns Darkness Into Light

    +++

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  8. The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

    Thousands of years ago there was a void, but there also was the Eternal Being that ever was and always shall be, having had no birth and never having an end or not able to die. That divine Eternal Being “That is” or “I Am“, the “I Am Who Am” or the “I Am Who Is” has a Voice and that Voice spoke in the darkness and when it spoke that what it expressed came into being. In this way That Spiritual Being “The I Am that I Am” took care that things came into being. Every time This I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה saw it was alright and when it was good The Cause of Being brought an other thing into existence. Every time The Being “That Is” spoke Its Word became a reality. The incorruptible Word spoken brought into existence.

    It was God’s Power (the Holy Spirit) that brought things to life. It was God His Word which was spoken, brought into reality and was there to stay for ever in truth, never telling lies. As such later in history the carnal beings created by that Most High Eternal Being received in their hands the greatest source of the greatest ideas known to man. First the Word went from one being to an other vocally, but later it became recorded on stone plates, than on papyrus and parchment roles. First those words of the Most High were notated in Hebrew, than Aramaic words and Greek words supplemented the documents written down in the name of God by set apart (holy) men.  This way man got the Scriptures, and for this series on the new or 2nd Adam we shall also look into the wisdom of the theological minds who brought forth the 1599 Geneva Bible Patriot’s Edition, which will enable you to think God’s thoughts after Him because the Bible is His special revelation. Herewith is a resource that you are sure to find indispensable for the study and interpretation of creation as God would have you see it.

    A 1581 edition of the Geneva Bible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Geneva Bible once changed the world. With that Bible man can hold in their hands something that is about to change the world — again. For those who find that bible we ask them to use this Bible with care. Use it faithfully with faith. Then watch God once more do above and beyond all that we can ask or imagine.

    {For this series we use the revised 2010 Tolle Lege Press (United States of America) edition of the 1599 Geneva Bible Restoration Project}

    To come to know why Jesus is so important for us and to come to see who he is and what purpose he served, we have to go back to the beginning of everything. We have to listen to the Word which sounded in the void.

    In Genesis chapter one we are told how everything started and that first of all, and before that any creature was, God made heaven and earth of nothing.

    Genesis 1

    1 God created the heaven and the earth. 3 The light
    and the darkness, 8 The firmament, 9 He separateth
    the water from the earth. 16 He createth the sun, the moon,
    and the stars. 21 He createth the fish, birds, beasts, 26 He
    createth man, and giveth him rule over all creatures, 29 And
    provideth nurture for man and beast.

    1 In the 1beginning aGod created the heaven and the earth.
    2 And the earth was 1,2without form and void, and 3darkness was upon the 4deep, and the Spirit of God 5moved upon the 6waters.
    3 Then God said, bLet there be light: And there was 1light.
    4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated 1the light from the darkness.
    5 And God called the Light, Day, and the darkness he called Night. 1So the evening and the morning
    were the first day.

    The Creation – James Tissot (1836–1902)

    Next we come to hear that it is the only power of God’s Word, His speaking, that makes the earth fruitful, which else naturally is barren. In Scriptures also more than once shall it be repeated that God made all His creatures to serve to His glory and God wanting to see that all is good, but that in the world there is seed, the matter that brings forth new matter, good or bad, depending on how the seed is and where the seed lands, in what sort of soil.

    9  God said again, eLet the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
    10 And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
    11 Then God said, 1Let the earth bud forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed, the fruitful tree, which beareth fruit according to his kind, which hath his seed in itself upon the earth: and it was so.
    12 And the earth brought forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruit, which hath his seed in itself according to his kind: and God 1saw that it was good.

    Too many christians do forget that the Bible also tells us clearly that there were animals and plants before man.

    20 Afterward God said, Let the waters bring forth in abundance every 1creeping thing that hath 2life: and let the fowl fly upon the earth in the 3open firmament of the heaven.
    21 Then God created the great whales, and everything living and moving, which the 1waters brought forth in abundance according to their kind, and every feathered fowl according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.
    22 Then God 1blessed them, saying, Bring forth fruit and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
    23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

    Only after all the planets, waters and earth, creeping beings it became time for an other creeping being of flesh and blood, in a system where there would be light and darkness as instruments appointed to serve to man’s use.

    Every time God spoke, the “soul of life” came into the beings (Hebrew for the “living thing” verse 24).

    24  Moreover God said, Let the earth bring forth the 1living thing according to his kind, cattle, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth according to his kind, and it was so.
    25 And God made the beast of the earth according to his kind, and the cattle according to his kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    It was only after God had commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures, that He said of man “Let us make”, signifying, that He the Most Highest, Who speaks with the ‘Royal We’ (Royal plural or Pluralis majestatis), God

    “taketh counsel with his wisdom and virtue, purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.” (1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

    26 Furthermore God said, h,1Let us make man in our 2image according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth and moveth on the earth.
    27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
    28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
    29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
    30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth
    upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
    31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

    The Earthly Paradise – Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625)

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    Preceding introductory article: Geneva Bible, Source text for our series on the beginning of Jesus

    Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

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    Additional reading

    1. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyehאהיה אשר אהיה
    2. Hashem השם, Hebrew for “the Name”
    3. Why think there’s a God? (1): Something from Nothing
    4. Where did God come from?
    5. Does He exists?
    6. Attributes to God
    7. El-Shaddai God Almighty Who no-one may see and live
    8. Bible, helmet of health, salvation and sword of the spirit
    9. Bible, sword of the Spirit to come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man
    10. Written down in God’s Name for righteousness
    11. Glory of only One God Who gives His Word
    12. Written and translated by different men over thousands of years
    13. Focussing on oneness with Jesus like Jesus is one with God
    14. See God’s wonderworks and hear His Voice
    15. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    16. The Word being a quality or aspect of God Himself
    17. Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement
    18. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
    19. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
    20. Creation Creator and Creation
    21. Means of creations
    22. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    23. Creation of the earth out of something
    24. Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation
    25. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
    26. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
    27. Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things
    28. God’s Word Framing universe
    29. The World framed by the Word of God
    30. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
    31. Creation purpose and warranty
    32. Different principle about the origin and beginning of everything
    33. Cosmos creator and human destiny
    34. Blackness, nothingness, something, void
    35. Nothingness
    36. Something from nothing
    37. Accommodation of the Void
    38. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
    39. “Before” and “after” the Big Bang
    40. Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world
    41. God’s Word is like the rain
    42. Other stories about the beginning of times
    43. Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
    44. Is it “Wrong” to Believe that the Earth is a Sphere?

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    Further readings of interest:

    1. Essential Doctrines (Part 1): The Doctrine of God’s Existence
    2. What About Those Who Do Not Know The Name of God?
    3. To Know God in Six Days
    4. The Great Architect
    5. Please!!! Don’t tell me that you honestly think the universe is 6000 years old!!!!
    6. The universe is not 6000 years old
    7. Proof that the Bible cannot be taken literally
    8. Life & Light
    9. Isaiah 41:10
    10. The #Genesis Theory – (Part 1) – YouTube
    11. Creation: In the Beginning
    12. Entry No.1 – A Creation Myth
    13. What happened on each of the days of Creation?
    14. The Divine Presence
    15. God’s Attention Is On You!
    16. Big Bang Theory & Life
    17. In His image…
    18. Be fruitful and multiply…
    19. God-Authenticated Togetherness
    20. Live your life in tandem with God
    21. Law versus Law
    22. “In Christ” #897
    23. What do you have your eyes on?
    24. Science vs Bible
    25. God Turns Darkness Into Light

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  9. Fragments from the Book of Job #6: chapters 38-42

    In his concluding speech in chapter 31, Job did demand that God appear before him, and in a sense, it is somewhat surprising for Elihu to appear instead.  But can a man command God to appear? Do we have the right or authority to demand the Most High to appear before us?
    Job’s concluding remarks in chapter 31 could unlikely in some way compel the Almighty Elohimto appear.

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    Elihu came in between the discussion because he found lots of things said to Job but also about God were not right. He had found that multiple words against God were uttered, charging God of doing nothing about wickedness or even using evil things to vindicate. Though we can find some kind of truth and authority in the words from Job’s three friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, they grated on the nerves of Elihu and angered God. It was not because God kept His silence that He did not listen or did not care, nor lost control over nation or man (Job 34:29-30). Also Elihu had the wrong idea about God working with His people. This sometimes arrogant looking person ends up offering a similar argument to that of the three friends: God is greater than man (Job 33:12) and thus he must have intended to warn or rebuke Job (Job 33:14–30). He even hopes that Job’s trials will continue either until he recants or, if he does not recant, until he dies (Job 34:36-37) and states Job’s complaint that godliness avails a man nothing (Job 35:1-4). He also declared that God is too lofty to be affected either by godliness or ungodliness, which only affect other people (Job 35:5-8). An other fault brought forwards to those who are unlucky is that unanswered prayers would be because of the lack of faith of those who pray and to the emptiness of the prayer (Job 35:-16). Elihu at moments continued to attack Job in the line of the other three older friends (e.g., Job 34:10-37; 35:16). He also suggested that Job had not recognized and maybe even had ignored the ways in which God had spoken to him (Job 33:14). The continual appeal for Job by the four friends to simply repent of whatever evil he has done is an obvious misdiagnosis, in light of the prologue (chapters 1-2) and on the other elements Job brought forward to plea for his justice, recapitulated by Elihu at the opening of his speech (Job 33:6, 9; 34:5-9).

    Elihu, who sometimes handled as if he were thinking to be like a prophet, shed already a further light on the matter that the creator of the universe cannot be unjust (Job 32:18–20; 34:10-28). Perhaps we may be called men of understanding, but there are a lot of things we do not understand and who are to complex to grasp and to get over with. Often we can’t make God out because He is beyond us. We sometimes can’t get His meaning or miss the point of what He says and does. The Spirit God seems difficult to grasp, but He is not so incomprehensible as we think. We just should concentrate more on the essentials of Him.

    In the Book of Job we got an idea in what ways evil come to this earth and how evil people suffer as well (Job 15:14-16, 20-35). Failure comes to many. In the many speeches from chapters 3 to 37 we heard the flawless logic but wounding thrusts of those who insisted on the traditional theology that it was indisputable that God is almighty, perfectly just and that no human can be pure in Gods sight. On the other hand we have to face the problem of godly, just people who suffer. In this Book from the Book of Books the author can give us some encouragement by showing us that our suffering provides an occasion like no other for exemplifying what true godliness is for human beings. As in the other books of the Bible we can get a picture of righteous people who suffer ‘unjust’ but, though they have to fight against certain thoughts, still continue to go strong for their beloved Creator and His creation.

    Job being answered by God – from Byzantine manuscript – Megisti Lavra Monastery,Codex B. 100, 12th century

    When we started this study of the Book of Job we mentioned the accuser of God. Satan, the adversary who brought a radical assault on God and godly people. When God called up the name of Job before the accuser and testified to his righteous, the Almighty is called a fool and His followers even more fools. Is it not that humans prefer to love the gifts of the Creator then the Creator Himself? It is up to men to proof that he not tries to pleases God merely for the sake of his benefits. Job did good things he told us, but not in the hope to get something in return. Are you “religious” and “good” because it pays? Do you want something in return for the good things you do?
    That is an other subject tackled in the Book of Job. Which position do we as humans want to take in our life here on earth? How do we want to place ourselves against other people. How do we want to face the One from who we get all this around us? Job faced toward God with anguish, puzzlement, anger and bitter complaints. How do we want to look at our Creator? And when we do not hear our answers, at first, answered how can we cope with that seemingly silent Authority? but are we sure that this God, ruler of the universe, is really silent? We should know that He has given His Words to be with us every day. Most of the answers we have to know are handed over to us. We just have to grasp them. It is to us to take them at hand and to read them, to be able to hear them. So we cannot say God does not give the answers to us. He has given them already to all those who want to have them.

    Only we do have to understand that we can not desire to get to know God thoroughly. Longing to know God is very good. But to read Him like a book is not possible. It is not so easy to have God taped in full. We cannot expect hat at the end of our life we shall know everything about God. It would be foolish wisdom to think that. We shall not be able to control everything, because that belongs to God. But He is willing to share parts of His knowledge with us. He is willing to give wisdom to His creatures. However Job’s experience makes bitterly clear to him that his friends “wisdom” cannot fathom the truth of his situation. No, the wisdom we can get does not bring the answers we would like to hear or see. Sometimes it can frustrate us. It can make us hungry. Wisdom and truth is discerned through hearing, just as the quality of food is discerned through tasting (Job 34:3). We better listen today to the Wisdom of God to get some ray of understanding some things and be  satisfied with what we already can get for answers at the moment. Patience is a good virtue. We should be pleased already that we can receive enough wisdom to comprehend those difficult creatures around us. And as we saw from the different answers of Job friends we do not always have to go by age, or by popularity. We always should remember that from these creaturely things, we as humans cannot learn all of God’s ways. And who are we mere human beings to to talk back to God? Does any object that is created riposte to its maker or will what is formed say to him who formed it, “why did you make me this way?” (Isaiah 29:16,45:9; Romans 9:20) “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?” (Romans 9:20 ASV)
    Who in the world do we think we are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mould it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?”
    For us it is perhaps best to recognise who is the Superior and not to deny God above (Job 31:28), recognising also the fact that our time on earth is also just a temporarily situation, and that the man who responds submissively to God’s dealings with him will regain health and joy (Job 33:25-28) Yes the Book of Job sheds also a light on what we might expect after death. When we die we shall all land up in the grave, the oppressors and the oppressed, they all shall perish and we shall not be able to take anything of our wealth or fame into our grave, the place of  departure (Job 27:15-23; Psalm 164:4; Isaiah 38:18). For the wealthy as well as the poor, the happy as the sufferers it shall be be as the animals (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20) When God does not look at them any more, or His face is veiled, they shall be troubled; when He takes away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust. “Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou {1} takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. {1) Or gatherest in}” (Psalms 104:29 ASV) “and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7 ASV) Let us take Paul’s words into our hearth: “We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this {1} world, nor of the rulers of this {1} world, who are coming to nought: {1) Or age; and so in verses 7, 8; but not in verse 12}” (1 Corinthians 2:6 ASV)
    Job will pass the supreme test of all true godliness, namely, to live by the wisdom God had given him, having the fear of the Most High Jehovah God and to depart from evil (Job 28:28),  and acknowledging the limits of human wisdom. Are we prepared to be satisfied with the brain we got and with what it can cope?

    Elihu repeatedly stated that the purpose of God’s speaking to a person in the way he described is to keep “his soul from the pit” (also Job 33:18, 22, 24, 28, 30). Thus he implies that Job’s suffering may be a corrective of his overall path rather than simply punishment for some hidden sin. Though God does not five a warning finger to Elihu we can find God answer in the rest of the Bible. God response to Job will include some vocabulary and references that are similar to portions of Elihu Barachel (meaning either “may God bless” or “God has blessed”) his speeches, but He does not commend either Elihu’s suggested reasons for Job’s suffering or his anger against Job.

    The Holy Spirit = Power of God

    Elihu had played on the words “spirit” and “breath” in his early speeches (see also Job 33:4; 34:14) in the way most likely to evoke Job’s earlier plea (Job 27:2–3) as he asserted his own right to speak. But he rightly let us know that God is the Spirit, and it is His breath, the live in Him that brings us His Words. It is this breath or  Holy “Spirit” which is the “power” that can enlighten us.

    “For he (God) needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.” (Job 34:23 ASV)  So God Almighty will not lay upon man more than right, that he should enter into judgement with God. Let us look at these words of the Lord of lords where He asks what evil or iniquity people have seen in Him that they have gone far from Him, and have walked after what is false,  worthless idols, worthlessness, vanity, and are become vain or become themselves nothings?
    “thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?” (Jeremiah 2:5 ASV)

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    Brenton Translation
    1851 by Lancelot Brenton

    Job Chapters 38-41

    Job 38:1 And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying],
    Job 38:2 Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?

    Job 38:3 Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
    Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,
    Job 38:5 who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
    Job 38:6 On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?

    Job 38:7 When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.
    Job 38:8 And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother’s womb.
    Job 38:9 And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
    Job 38:10 And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.
    Job 38:11 And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.
    Job 38:12 Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place;
    Job 38:13 to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

    Job 38:14 Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
    Job 38:15 And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
    Job 38:16 Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
    Job 38:17 And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?
    Job 38:18 And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
    Job 38:19 And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
    Job 38:20 If thou couldest bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;
    Job 38:21 I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.

    Job 38:22 But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?
    Job 38:23 And is there a store [of them], for thee against the time of [thine] enemies, for the day of wars and battle?
    Job 38:24 And whence proceeds the frost? or [whence] is the south wind dispersed over the [whole world] under heaven?

    Job 38:25 And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;
    Job 38:26 to rain upon the land where [there is] no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited [land],
    Job 38:27 and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
    Job 38:28 Who is the rain’s father? and who has generated the drops of dew?

    Job 38:29 And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
    Job 38:30 which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

    Job 38:31 And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?
    Job 38:32 Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?

    Job 38:33 And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?
    Job 38:34 And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?
    Job 38:35 And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is [thy pleasure]?

    Job 38:36 And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?
    Job 38:37 And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth?
    Job 38:38 For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.

    Job 38:39 And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?
    Job 38:40 For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods.
    Job 38:41 And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.

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    Job 39:1 [Say] if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and [if] thou hast marked the calving of the hinds:
    Job 39:2 and [if] thou has hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and [if] thou hast relieved their pangs:
    Job 39:3 and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs?
    Job 39:4 Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: [their young] will go forth, and will not return to them.

    Job 39:5 And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?
    Job 39:6 whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.

    Job 39:7 He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.
    Job 39:8 He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.

    Job 39:9 And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger?
    Job 39:10 And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain?
    Job 39:11 And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him?
    Job 39:12 And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring [it] in [to] thy threshing-floor?

    Job 39:13 The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, [it is worthy of notice],
    Job 39:14 for [the ostrich] will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,
    Job 39:15 and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.
    Job 39:16 She has hardened [herself] against her young ones, as though [she bereaved] not herself: she labours in vain without fear.
    Job 39:17 For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.
    Job 39:18 In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.

    Job 39:19 Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?
    Job 39:20 And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?
    Job 39:21 He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.
    Job 39:22 He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.
    Job 39:23 The bow and sword resound against him; and [his] rage will swallow up the ground:
    Job 39:24 and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.
    Job 39:25 And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.

    Job 39:26 And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?
    Job 39:27 And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
    Job 39:28 on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]?
    Job 39:29 Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.
    Job 39:30 And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.

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    Job 40:1 (39:31) And the Lord God answered Job, and said,
    Job 40:2 (39:32) Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.

    Job 40:3 (39:33) And Job answered and said to the Lord,
    Job 40:4 (39:34) Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these [arguments]? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
    Job 40:5 (39:35) I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.

    Job 40:6 (40:1) And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],

    Job 40:7 (40:2) Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
    Job 40:8 (40:3) Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?

    Job 40:9 (40:4) Hast thou an arm like the Lord’s? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?
    Job 40:10 (40:5) Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.
    Job 40:11 (40:6) And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.
    Job 40:12 (40:7) Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.
    Job 40:13 (40:8) And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.
    Job 40:14 (40:9) [Then] will I confess that thy right hand can save [thee].

    Job 40:15 (40:10) But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.
    Job 40:16 (40:11) Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
    Job 40:17 (40:12) He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.
    Job 40:18 (40:13) His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.

    Job 40:19 (40:14) This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.
    Job 40:20 (40:15) And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

    Job 40:21 (40:16) He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
    Job 40:22 (40:17) And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.
    Job 40:23 (40:18) If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
    Job 40:24 (40:19) [Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.

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    Job 41:1 (40:20) But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
    Job 41:2 (40:21) Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
    Job 41:3 (40:22) Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
    Job 41:4 (40:23) And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?
    Job 41:5 (40:24) And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
    Job 41:6 (40:25) And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?

    Job 41:7 (40:26) And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither [shall they carry] his head in fishing-vessels.
    Job 41:8 (40:27) But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him [once], remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.

    Job 41:9 (41:0) Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said [of him]?
    Job 41:10 (41:1) Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?

    Job 41:11 (41:2) Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?

    Job 41:12 (41:3) I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.

    Job 41:13 (41:4) Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
    Job 41:14 (41:5) Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
    Job 41:15 (41:6) His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.
    Job 41:16 (41:7) One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.
    Job 41:17 (41:8) They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.

    Job 41:18 (41:9) At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.
    Job 41:19 (41:10) Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
    Job 41:20 (41:11) Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
    Job 41:21 (41:12) His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
    Job 41:22 (41:13) And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
    Job 41:23 (41:14) The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.
    Job 41:24 (41:15) His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
    Job 41:25 (41:16) And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

    Job 41:26 (41:17) If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.
    Job 41:27 (41:18) For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
    Job 41:28 (41:19) The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.
    Job 41:29 (41:20) Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
    Job 41:30 (41:21) His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.

    Job 41:31 (41:22) He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
    Job 41:32 (41:23) and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.

    Job 41:33 (41:24) There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
    Job 41:34 (41:25) He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.

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    Job 42:1 Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
    Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee.
    Job 42:3 For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?
    Job 42:4 But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.
    Job 42:5 I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.
    Job 42:6 Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

    Job 42:7 And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].
    Job 42:8 Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.
    Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

    Job 42:10 And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.
    Job 42:11 And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachms’ weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].

    Job 42:12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.
    Job 42:13 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
    Job 42:14 And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea’s horn.
    Job 42:15 And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.

    Job 42:16 And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons’ sons, the fourth generation.
    Job 42:17 And Job died, an old man and full of days: (42:17A) and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. (42:17B) This man is described in the Syriac book [as] living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; (42:17C) and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. (42:17D) And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. (42:17E) And [his] friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad sovereign of the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Minaeans.

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    Continues: Fragments from the Book of Job #7 Epilogue

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    “For He will not lay upon man more than right, that he should enter into judgment with God.” (Job 34:23 KJ21)

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    Note:

    The Holy Spirit is the Author of Scripture; therefore the Word of God is inseparable from the Spirit of God. God is Spirit and the Holy spirit is not on other entity, it is the Power of God itself. The Scriptures introduce the reader to the Holy Spirit and the Spirit applies the truths of the Word to the hearts of the reader. Scripture must be interpreted in the immediate context of personal prayer. The Bible promises over and over that when we seek God, he will be found. The same is true if we seek his power. The “knowledge of God” is an essential feature of Christian attainment, according to the apostolic standard. Those “who know not God” are among those whom vengeance is to overtake (2 Thessalonians 1: 8). Knowledge of God is the basis of sonship to God. Without it, we cannot enter the divine family. How can we love and serve a being whom we do not know? Knowledge is the foundation of all. It is the rock upon which everlasting life itself is built. “This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, The Only True God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent” (John 27: 3).

    Prayer is the medium that brings individuals into contact with the same Spirit who inspired the writers of the Bible. To hear what the Spirit of the Only One God is saying through the Word you must encounter God through prayer. Prayer is the means that we must use to understand the Word of God. Without the assistance of the Holy Spirit in prayer, our Bible study will be in vain. Let us ask for the Spirit to speak to us through the Word.

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