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†. Gen 2:1-3 . .The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their
array. On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been
doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He
had done. And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy,
because on it God ceased from all the work of creation that He had
done.
Thrice it's stated in that passage that the creator finished His work and
ceased creating things for the current cosmos; yet people are still under the
impression that He creates new souls every time a baby is conceived in its
mommy's womb. But the seventh day isn't bounded by an evening and a
morning; ergo: it has not yet ended; which means God hasn't gone back to
creating things for the current cosmos.
Adam's progeny-- you and I and all the others --are not direct creations; no;
we're reproductions; viz: there's no need for mankind's creator to take a
hand in producing baby souls, or any other souls for that matter-- either
birds, bugs, beasts, or fish --because He created all life on earth as
sustainable, transferable kinds of life. The blessing of fertility is a remarkable
blessing because it enables living things to reproduce themselves sans divine
micro management. That's pretty amazing when you think about it.
In the future; after the current cosmos is destroyed, God will once again roll
up His sleeves, and go back to work creating things.
"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall
not be remembered, nor come into mind." (Isa 65:17)
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned
up . . . we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness." (2Pet 3:10-13)
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." (Rev 21:1}
The phrase "declared it holy" is from the word qadash (kaw-dash') which
means: to be clean, or to make, pronounce, or observe as clean.
Pronouncing something clean, or observing something as clean and/or
conferring upon something the status of clean, doesn't mean it's intrinsically
clean. It's just regarded as fully dedicated to God's purposes; which is
exactly what the word "sanctified" implies. The Hebrew word for "sanctify" is
also qadash: the very same word as for "declared it holy".
†. Gen 2:4 . .These are the generations of the heavens and of the
earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made
earth and heaven.
The Hebrew word for "day" in that verse is yowm (yome) which is the very
same word for each of the six days of God's creation labors. Since yowm in
verse four refers to a period of time obviously much longer than a 24-hour
calendar day; it justifies categorizing each of the six days of creation as
epochs of indeterminate length.
Gen 2:4 is the very first time in Scripture where the most famous of God's
names, yhvh, appears. Up to this point, The creator has been identified by
'elohiym (el-o-heem') which is a nondescript label for any and all kinds of
gods; both the true and the false and/or the real and the imagined.
The noun is grammatically plural but doesn't necessarily indicate creation's
God is a plural being. Sheep, fish, and deer are plural too but don't always
indicate more than one of each. So plural nouns don't eo ipso denote more
than one item. There are other gods in the Bible, such as Baal and Dagon, to
whom the word 'elohiym is applied and those gods aren't composite entities;
e.g. 1Kgs 18:25-29 and Jgs 16:23.
Yhvh's appellation is so sacred among pious Jews that they make every
effort to avoid speaking it except under very special circumstances. In some
of their writings, in order to avoid using the four sacred letters comprising
the tetragrammaton, they write instead "The Name" and/or sometimes
"Hashem". So Ex 20:3 could be written : "I, The Name, am your god" or "I,
Hashem, am your god."
NOTE: The Bible's God is commonly referred to with masculine pronouns
because Yhvh is a king; and kings are always males rather than females; for
example:
Thus testifies Yhvh, the king of Israel, and His redeemer, Yhvh of hosts: I
am the First and I am the Last; other than Me there is no god." (Isa 44:6)
†. Gen 2:5 . . and every plant of the field before it was in the earth,
and every herb of the field before it grew: for Yhvh God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the
ground.
Bible students have to exercise caution when reading that section in order to
avoid making the mistake of concluding that human life was created prior to
vegetation; when we know for a fact from the day-by-day account in the
first chapter that humans were the very last to be put on earth. Gen 2:4-7 is
saying that when God planted vegetation in chapter three, it wasn't
permitted to flourish till sometime in chapter six when it became needed as
food for first the beasts, and later; the Ruddy species.
Cont.
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†. Gen 2:1-3 . .The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their
array. On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been
doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He
had done. And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy,
because on it God ceased from all the work of creation that He had
done.
Thrice it's stated in that passage that the creator finished His work and
ceased creating things for the current cosmos; yet people are still under the
impression that He creates new souls every time a baby is conceived in its
mommy's womb. But the seventh day isn't bounded by an evening and a
morning; ergo: it has not yet ended; which means God hasn't gone back to
creating things for the current cosmos.
Adam's progeny-- you and I and all the others --are not direct creations; no;
we're reproductions; viz: there's no need for mankind's creator to take a
hand in producing baby souls, or any other souls for that matter-- either
birds, bugs, beasts, or fish --because He created all life on earth as
sustainable, transferable kinds of life. The blessing of fertility is a remarkable
blessing because it enables living things to reproduce themselves sans divine
micro management. That's pretty amazing when you think about it.
In the future; after the current cosmos is destroyed, God will once again roll
up His sleeves, and go back to work creating things.
"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall
not be remembered, nor come into mind." (Isa 65:17)
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned
up . . . we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness." (2Pet 3:10-13)
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." (Rev 21:1}
The phrase "declared it holy" is from the word qadash (kaw-dash') which
means: to be clean, or to make, pronounce, or observe as clean.
Pronouncing something clean, or observing something as clean and/or
conferring upon something the status of clean, doesn't mean it's intrinsically
clean. It's just regarded as fully dedicated to God's purposes; which is
exactly what the word "sanctified" implies. The Hebrew word for "sanctify" is
also qadash: the very same word as for "declared it holy".
†. Gen 2:4 . .These are the generations of the heavens and of the
earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made
earth and heaven.
The Hebrew word for "day" in that verse is yowm (yome) which is the very
same word for each of the six days of God's creation labors. Since yowm in
verse four refers to a period of time obviously much longer than a 24-hour
calendar day; it justifies categorizing each of the six days of creation as
epochs of indeterminate length.
Gen 2:4 is the very first time in Scripture where the most famous of God's
names, yhvh, appears. Up to this point, The creator has been identified by
'elohiym (el-o-heem') which is a nondescript label for any and all kinds of
gods; both the true and the false and/or the real and the imagined.
The noun is grammatically plural but doesn't necessarily indicate creation's
God is a plural being. Sheep, fish, and deer are plural too but don't always
indicate more than one of each. So plural nouns don't eo ipso denote more
than one item. There are other gods in the Bible, such as Baal and Dagon, to
whom the word 'elohiym is applied and those gods aren't composite entities;
e.g. 1Kgs 18:25-29 and Jgs 16:23.
Yhvh's appellation is so sacred among pious Jews that they make every
effort to avoid speaking it except under very special circumstances. In some
of their writings, in order to avoid using the four sacred letters comprising
the tetragrammaton, they write instead "The Name" and/or sometimes
"Hashem". So Ex 20:3 could be written : "I, The Name, am your god" or "I,
Hashem, am your god."
NOTE: The Bible's God is commonly referred to with masculine pronouns
because Yhvh is a king; and kings are always males rather than females; for
example:
Thus testifies Yhvh, the king of Israel, and His redeemer, Yhvh of hosts: I
am the First and I am the Last; other than Me there is no god." (Isa 44:6)
†. Gen 2:5 . . and every plant of the field before it was in the earth,
and every herb of the field before it grew: for Yhvh God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the
ground.
Bible students have to exercise caution when reading that section in order to
avoid making the mistake of concluding that human life was created prior to
vegetation; when we know for a fact from the day-by-day account in the
first chapter that humans were the very last to be put on earth. Gen 2:4-7 is
saying that when God planted vegetation in chapter three, it wasn't
permitted to flourish till sometime in chapter six when it became needed as
food for first the beasts, and later; the Ruddy species.
Cont.
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