How can there be history and generations in one day?
"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night."
It's not literal. It's not some sort of mathematical equation.
How can Adam be both sexes?
"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; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Ok, so the basic teaching is that Adam was only a male but in creating from Adam's bone God designed a totally separate sex. Adam knew the bone was his, so declared the woman his flesh and bone.
The issue I have, is that is not how God stated humans were created. Not that there is a conflict in Genesis 2, but the conflict is with the accepted interpretation.
"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. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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."
There were them prior to the 7th Day.
Adam is God's son. Made in His image. He's a reflection of His father and his father is spirit. Not physical. So the spiritual Adam was from the seed of the spiritual Father. If the original spiritual Adam as you say, was 'both sexes' and he is a copy (facsimile) of the Father, the Father too is 'both sexes' or the Adam isn't a true copy. Yes?
Of course-- in spirit, there is neither male, nor female-- so it's not really 'both sexes' as you suppose, but God contains the attributes that we then "attribute" to male and female as characteristics or properties. God is One, complete as complete can be and His son, a copy of that united completeness. But then, with all things- a division exists between the holy and the profane, heaven and earth, darkness and light, the sea and dry land, male and female and so on. A duality of all things with a line of demarcation between the spiritual above, and the flesh below. And this is true of all physical things-- reflections, or images of those things above-- spiritual things.
The argument is that Genesis 2 is just a repeat of Genesis 1. The them is only Adam and Eve. But that contradicts God giving the them, the command to fill the earth, and the single Adam to live in an enclosed Garden with borders, 4 rivers.
I don't hold to Adam being a seperate creation. I don't even hold to the literal implication, God created another set of animals after the 7th day and after planting a Garden. The creation mentioned in Genesis 2 is still the same time and way it was already accomplished before the 7th day, in chapter 1.
Now you don't believe in literal interpretation? What about your thousand years equation? Do you just flip the literal switch whenever you need to?
Genesis 1 tells the story from the perspective of Paradise-- that is, what we call heaven. But everything above is reflected below-- on earth as it is in heaven. Genesis 2 provides the physical perspective. There's much more to it than this, but it's the same story from two different points of view and two different time periods-- the story from before what we call 'creation' and then the story of creation itself. You'd be far better off dispensing with your algebraic equation and recognize the Hebrew word for 'day' as simply an age, or space of time.
It is reasonable to state God created in anticipation for the need Adam would have when placed alone in a new Garden, way before that need was a realization. God already planned to come as Messiah in the far distant future, even before Adam was created and disobeyed. There is not even a contradiction between chapters that animals were created before humans, in one, even though in chapter 2 the only reason given, was seemingly because God saw Adam was lonely, and then God decided to create all the animals. God already knew Adam was lonely on the 5th Day when He created them and it was not an after thought after Adam was placed in the Garden.
Adam in Paradise is the image of God in Heaven. The son, the reflection of the Father.
It is rather obvious if you take one human and place that human in an enclosed area by themselves, they would be alone, and eventually lonely and probably board even. So why not place 2 humans in this Garden? That would certainly solve the problem. Then why did God already declare prior to the 7th day "they" were many, and already there to fill up the earth during the 7th Day of rest from all creation?
People already assume Eve was there on the 6th day, when in reality the Garden was planted after the 7th day, and not prior to the 7th day. That should not be an assumption. Those on the 6th day were male and female and told to fill the earth. After the 7th day we see one assumed male all alone in a garden full of animals and vegetation, needing something to do because he was "lonely". Then after naming all the animals, which was supposed to take 6 minutes?, or 6 months?, or 6 years?, this man was still alone.
You are still thinking of Adam as being a physical man in a physical garden. Look up. He's walking with God in Paradise-- in spirit. There's an extremely important principle you are missing because you are still not seeing the difference between the physical man below and the spiritual man above.
There is no need to name anything even during the 1,000 years. Nothing even died. They were not even "named" the "sons of God", until chapter 6. Here is the simple explanation from Scripture why nothing died for 1,000 years:
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so."
Every seed from every plant and every tree was consumed as food by every living thing on the whole earth. Nothing died and no seed ever germinated. It never left the body either. How do we know this?
Flip the switch---- Back to the literal.
Consider the elohim. Like Adam-- sons of God and as many as there are stars in the sky. And for every elohim above, ben elohim below.
"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, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." KJV
The first set of verses point out no wild plants sprung up. No domesticated plants were ever used. Now the KJV made more sense that for many generations of human and animal life, a thousand years, no seed ever went into the ground, died and came up again, not wild, nor domestic. So the plants and trees were watered naturally and no one had a garden nor a farm nor did they worry about anything dying or even left to die. Even the insects were part of the no seed left behind campaign.
Literally nothing was planted, and then what are we told takes place after the 7th day?
"Adonai, God, planted a garden toward the east, in ‘Eden, and there he put the person whom he had formed. Out of the ground Adonai, God, caused to grow every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
If the tree was forbidden and enclosed it was not planted prior to the 7th day. The whole process of trees and plants prior to the 7th day was to be the only food. Now we have a tree that cannot be eaten from period. Do we have a repeat of history in the future? After the 7th day, Satan was allowed to enter and decieve Eve. Not prior to the 7th day. Now we see a second 1,000 years where Satan is once again not allowed on earth. There is no sin and death during that time. And once again after the 1,000 years, Satan is allowed to decieve those on the earth. Makes sense to me, even if that is just my opinion. Not made up, but Scripture.
You have to understand that this water from above that God had not sent is spiritual--- it's the same Hebrew word for sperm. That's the spiritual seed, the spiritual word that becomes flesh. In this way we can all say-- Our Father, who art in heaven.
