God who is he?
A few years back I was watching a Professor of Theology giving a bible study on Genesis. His wife was Jewish and he also spoke about some of her knowledge.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
God created
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
God said, let us (had to be angels)
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
God created and had input from the angels
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Gen 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Now something new shows up ‘LORD’ which is not a title but the name of the same God of Gen 1 of which the Jew could not use because it was sacred. The Professor when he asked his wife why LORD is used. She said “there are many Gods, but only one LORD God of Israel. His name is scared so we replace it with LORD”.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
LORD God formed a man, no woman.
Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
This man was not told to go and replenish the earth, he was put in a garden.
Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Now, LORD God tells the man keep up the garden.
God created mankind and LORD God formed ‘Adam’ and then later ‘Eve’.
If you can grasp this, the whole bible will become new to you.
Gen 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
LORD God formed every beast of the field, that would be domesticated animals.
Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
LORD God made a woman from the rib of Adam.
Do you see the difference between Gen 1 and Gen 2?
You can now read through your bible and know who LORD God represents.
Just in this short study one can see that there was a creation of mankind while the other was a man who was formed and this man has a covenant with God.
When you read through the Old Testament you will see !