Genesis 1:24). There is more difficulty in deciding in what the likeness to God consisted. All is consistent in revelation, and nowhere else. Chapter 1:9-31Now on the third day,God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. We find then light caused to be a remarkable expression, and, be assured, profoundly true. the angels, as the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, and others, who For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.". Not a word is heard about eternal life yet that must wait for His appearing who was such with the Father; not a word yet about the exhaustless riches of grace which were afterwards to abound. By no means. Man is the image of God by virtue of his spiritual nature. Now, the word light here is "meor". one that had ruined the glory of God, as far as it rested upon him. This is the prime key to the works of every ancient author, if we can only discover it. *How this agrees with the dispensational dealings of God with Israel needs no argument. That is why, when God created man and He created the garden for man to dwell in, that He put in that Garden a tree of knowledge of good and evil and said to man, "Don't eat that". Three classes of institutions are required in human societies to deal with human disease or failure in these three specific areas: penal institutions for gross spiritual failures, hospitals for the diseases or injuries of bones and joints, and psychiatric wards for the mentally deficient. But it is the more important because, when it is a question of the guilt of taking man's life, the ground is that he was made in God's image. What does He do then? It is not in this connection "created," it will be observed, but "made" them. This precludes all pantheistic notions of the origin of man. f Vet. Not only is the method the most worthy, but the truth with which the book opens is one that nobody ever did really discover before it was revealed. But the will of man pits itself invariably against the known will of God, and the very man who was doomed to be a fugitive sets to work that he may settle himself here below. 1. g De confusione Ling. Some think they have some kind of device that tunes on the magnetic field of the earth. It is that of sovereignty. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. Read Genesis 1:26-31. (Genesis 1:6-7, 9, 11, 14-15). It is a real joy to know that it is coming; but until that day God always has before Him, as the theatre and material where He acts, a world ruined ruined by sinful man. All of the things were created or reformed within this six-day period. For as we have on the sixth day the lower creation for the earth, so finally man himself the crown of all. Because moral responsibility in relationship to Jehovah-Elohim comes in exactly where it should. It is man as the head of creation. Somehow they are like God in a way that nothing else is. It opens thus: "And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark." "Jehovah." More than that: it is the conviction of all men, and men worthy to be listened to, that not more surely are they divided into three grand lines than that these three lines had a common origin. ii. God is the fountain whence this spirit issued, hence the stream must resemble the spring which produced it. Genesis 1:26. For the view that the image of God includes the body, see Jonathan F. Henry, "Man in Gods Image: What Does it Mean?" But I have the capacity to love.So man was made in the image of God and in the likeness of God. of food to man, no mention as yet is made of any other meat than "First, Gods deliberation shows that he has decided to create man differently from any of the other creatures-in his image and likeness. In the spiritual being that exercises reason and will resides the power to act, which presupposes both these faculties - the reason as informing the will, and the will as directing the power. He was like Adam fallen, not his representative only. And what followed after it? Genesis 1:25-26 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the . There is next the associated fact of an utter desolation which befell not the heavens, but the earth. "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah-Elohim had not caused it to rain upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the ground. over fish and fowl signify, unless it be a power to feed upon is, over all the beasts of the earth, as appears by comparing it Lastly, in the fifth chapter, without making any mention of image, he puts likeness in its place, (Genesis 5:1.) Moral relationship? The beautiful type of creation belonging to Christ is thus admirably preserved. He has made the sea his highway to the ends of the earth, the stars his pilots on the pathless ocean, the sun his bleacher and painter, the bowels of the earth the treasury from which he draws his precious and useful metals and much of his fuel, the steam his motive power, and the lightning his messenger. In our image, after our likeness What is said above refers only to the body of man, what is here said refers to his soul. Countless years ago God, by his sovereign power and will, created the universe. #2 "Let us make". And I wouldn't mind the final chapter being written up there anyhow. But I often wonder why God made such weird-looking fish, in such variety, and then the fabulous colors! Genesis 26:1, ESV: Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham.And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. The soul of man, considered in its three noble faculties, understanding, will, and active power, is perhaps the brightest clearest looking-glass in nature, wherein to see God. and why is thy countenance fallen? * We are therefore warranted in supposing that they are described just because they might have been less easily discerned. The Fall obscured but did not obliterate the image of God in man. I just love to see the different life forms.I love to see these crazy, little tiny bugs and I don't even know what they are, or where they're going, and I wonder if they know where they're going, but they know how to fly. Seth therefore was begotten in Adam's own likeness, not in God's. How perfect therefore is the intimation of scripture! Hitherto, it had been said, "Let there be light," and "Let there be a firmament," and "Let the earth, or waters, bring forth" such a thing; but now the word of command is turned into a word of consultation, "Let us make man, for whose sake the rest of the creatures were made: this is a work we must take into our own hands." Will it be so always? Now there is not really the very least ground for such an assumption. But there is no word coupling the introductory statement of verse 1 with what follows. And the common distinction is, that image exists in the substance, likeness in the accidents of anything. The two terms occur in the very same verse; yet is there not an evident propriety in each case? They are not said to be created then; but God made two great lights (it is no question of their mass, but of their capacity as light bearers,) for the Adamic earth the stars also. They take off over the thousands of miles without suitcases, without spare gas tanks, without compasses or navigational equipment. (Genesis 2:1-3). The word light in Hebrew is "or". But they cannot produce facts, for they have none. Psalm 19:1-6 tells us the heavens contain a message from God. Does he have sexual organs, and if so, which? The principles of God's nature are immutable. (Compare also Leviticus 6:4 with Leviticus 27:12, and for the use of to denote a norm, or sample, Exodus 25:40; Exodus 30:32, Exodus 30:37, etc.) . plural number as expressive of honour and majesty; since such a The simple statement of the facts is that which is worthy of God. Science may investigate the physical world and suggest how something happened, but it cannot say who made it happen. But in Genesis 6:1-22 we have a very solemn statement the apostacy of the ancient world. ], As a husband and wife demonstrate oneness in their marriage they reflect the unity of the Godhead. Genesis 1.26. ), God created man male and female as an expression of His own plurality: "Let us make man. And here in a secondary sense of the word is the propriety of the phrase "created" in verse 21; and we shall see it also when a new action comes before us in imparting not animal life but a rational soul. God set down the goal of human life at the very beginning, when He created mankind in the Garden of Eden. But it is an old story in this world, though a new thing for professing members and ministers of Christ, to take pride in putting scorn on divine revelation. Scripture is plain and profoundly true: "And Jehovah-Elohim said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore Jehovah- Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground whence he was taken. I believe that they are what are called, or used to be called in ancient times at any rate, the Phasis and the Aras or Araxes. For although at the present time man is fitted by his teeth and alimentary canal for the combination of vegetable and animal food; and although the law of mutual destruction so thoroughly pervades the whole animal kingdom, that not only is the life of one sustained by the death of another, but "as the graminivorous animals check the overgrowth of the vegetable kingdom, so the excessive increase of the former is restricted by the beasts of prey, and of these again by the destructive implements of man;" and although, again, not only beasts of prey, but evident symptoms of disease are met with among the fossil remains of the aboriginal animals: all these facts furnish no proof that the human and animal races were originally constituted for death and destruction, or that disease and slaughter are older than the fall. Where is anything like it in all the known ways of God? The word "meor" is a light holder. The last is Philo's explanation: ( equals angels). "For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Consequently a moral test such as the wise and prudent would introduce here, and count a worthier reason why there should be so vast a ruin for the world ensuing, is out of the question. It merely describes in a few graphic touches, that are strikingly true to nature, the last of those geologic changes which our globe has undergone. It is not as if it were a new thing for man to deny the immortality of his own soul. If man had been writing it, if he had attempted to give that which pretended to be a revelation, we could understand a flourish of trumpets, pompous prolegomena, some elaborate means or other of setting forth who and what God is, an attempt by fancy to project His image out of man's mind, or by subtle priori reasoning to justify all that might follow. But the blessing pronounced is omitted, the author hastening to the account of the creation of man, in which the work of creation culminated. "The image is found in the type of relationship that was designed to exist between male and female human beings, a relationship where the characteristics of each sex are valued and used to form a oneness in their identity and purpose. Undoubtedly there is teaching of the Spirit of God founded on the facts of revelation. Genesis 2:1-25. assumes Genesis 1:1-31, but adds moral elements of the utmost importance and interest. From the fourth verse of Genesis 2:1-25, therefore, we first meet with a new title of God. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth." 27 So God created man in his own image; he created him in the imag. But it is well that their canine wickedness has been joined with a stupidity so great, that they betray their folly to children. They are able to go down and each little root is a chemical laboratory. "Jehovah-Elohim took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." It is not "Jehovah" now but "God." By power we act, either in giving expression to our concepts in words, or effect to our determinations in deeds. Carmen Memorial. We don't know for sure.Emmanuel Vilikovski again in his book, "Worlds in Collision" as you get into the book, we'll find out that his theory that the introduction of the planet Venus into our solar system that caused the change of the Earth's orbit around the sun. The evil is traced home at last to its source, and the serpent is brought fully out. Unto God? He rested just from His creation. Such was not the usual style of monarchs in the ancient East. Need it be said that as far as its efficacy is concerned, and God's delight in it, He doers not wait for the new heavens and the new earth, either to enjoy it Himself or make known its value to us? So with Cain here "and if thou doest not well;" and such was the fact. Expect More. No one would have done so naturally. Man alone, as deriving that which gave him the breath of life not from his body but from the breath of Jehovah-Elohim, gives an account to God. As with the rest of the Bible, the book of Genesis was written in the everyday language of the people of the time. Cain brought what might have sufficed in an unfallen world what might have suited an innocent worshipper of One who was simply known as Elohim. Not that one could say positively that so it was; but certainly it is to be supposed that little time could have passed after receiving the woman, his wife. He has appointed them rulers over the earthly creation (see 1:27-28).Without the image of God within them, people would not (according to the biblical definition) be human. Thus man was rich before he was born. Let it suffice to refer to the great principle, remembering that the theatre of the ages or dispensations of God is the world since the flood. last, and beside me there is no God: and three jods (yyy) testify concerning him, that Men have fancied contradictions; they have fallen back on the old resource of opposed documents put together. This elementary truth is of immense importance at the present moment. "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens . and of beasts that are not clean by two." This is the highest honor with which he has dignified us; to a due regard for which, Moses, by this mode of speaking would excite our minds. There was a famine in the land: Though Isaac lived in the land God promised to his father Abraham and his descendants, it did not mean that life in the land would be without trouble or challenge. Alas! I'm made in the image of God, who is a self-determinant being.Now, if God created me with a capacity of choice, it would be totally meaningless unless He gave me a choice. And this honour, put upon man at first, is a good reason why we should not speak ill one of another (James 3:9), nor do ill one to another (Genesis 9:6), and a good reason why we should not debase ourselves to the service of sin, and why we should devote ourselves to God's service. It is in harmony with the usage of speech as far as it can be known to us at the present day. The very first rule on which the interpreter is bound to proceed is to assign to each word the meaning it commonly bore in the time of the writer. "And Noah," it is written in verse Genesis 8:20, "builded an altar." the creation, and much less in the more noble part of it: nor are [Note: See James Jordan, "Rebellion, Tyranny, and Dominion in the Book of Genesis," Christianity and Civilization 3 (Summer 1983):38-80. This passage has intrigued Bible students for millennia. God was now producing a spirit, and a spirit, too, formed after the perfections of his own nature. Again, as even in the present order of nature the excessive increase of the vegetable kingdom is restrained, not merely by the graminivorous animals, but also by the death of the plants themselves through the exhaustion of their vital powers; so the wisdom of the Creator could easily have set bounds to the excessive increase of the animal world, without requiring the help of huntsmen and beasts of prey, since many animals even now lose their lives by natural means, without being slain by men or eaten by beasts of prey. I must be permitted here to say a word on a subject which, if it has called out enormous discussion, betrays in its course, I am sorry to say, no small amount of evident infidelity. Cain, as it is said, went out from His presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod; a son is born in due time who builds a city called after his name. which seem to be meant by the phrase, "over all the earth"; that The strict import of the term is that which to my mind is most suitable to the context; the week in which God made the heaven and earth for man seems alone appropriate in introducing the revelation of God. Gesenius on Isaiah 11:6-8). Centuries ago people thought that the sun moved round the earth, but when one scientist suggested that the earth moved round the sun, he was condemned for not believing the Bible. In every way it proves itself the word not of men, but as it is in truth of God, which effectually works in them that believe. God and man share a likeness that is not shared by other creatures. She thought her first-born a great gain, for such is the meaning of the name "Cain." 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