Personally, I think that the stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis describe real events in the early history of the human race - but they're not "literal" in the sense that if you'd been there you would have seen things happening exactly as described.
Gen 1:
[
1] In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth.
[
2] And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:
[
9] And
God said, Let the
waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let
the dry land appear: and it was so.
Gen 1:
[
10] And God called the
dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
The water(S) … multiple “gathered together”
The land………… singular “appear”
Gen 1:
[
20] And God said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and
fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
[
21] And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
[
22] And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
[
23] And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
[
24] And God said, Let
the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
[
25] And God
made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth
upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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.
Heaven and Earth “CREATED”.
Seas gathered.
Land appeared.
God “THEY” “CREATED and then MADE” specifics pertaining to WHAT “THEY” Created.
Animal KINDS that fly in the AIR of Heaven.
Animal KINDS out of the Gathered Water.
Animals KINDS out of the Land.
Man KIND out of the Land.
Man KIND given Dominion OVER, animal kinds.
Habitats….
One Heaven of AIR….multiple birds
One Sea of WATER….multiple animals
One Earth of LAND….multiple animals, man
Doesn’t matter IF man was YET created and made, TO SEE God “creating and making”….
Man-KIND “CAN SEE” the “RESULTS” of God’s “CREATION and MAKING”.
The “GOOD” CREATING and MAKING occurred, BY, THROUGH, OF…….”THEM” = “GOD”…. WHO IS “THEM” “us” “our” = “GOD”?
The “SPIRIT” of God…IS GOD…”US, OUR”.
God “SAID” “WORD of God..IS GOD…THEM”
“Creator AND Maker”.
Creator AND Maker….Created and Made= GOOD
Creator AND Maker…Gave manKIND “authority / dominion” OVER Gods GOOD, “creations and makings”…
Waters, Earth, Air of Heaven….
Later we LEARN of “HEAVEN…(S)”…
Later we LEARN of “WATER…..(S)”…
Later we LEARNS of “LAND……(S)”…
Gen
[
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,
* Three HEAVENS…a layering, and divisions of sorts.
High Heavens, unseeable, unreachable by man.
Mid Heavens, seeable, but unreachable by man.
Lower Heavens, seeable and reachable by man.
* Three EARTHS….a layering, and divisions of sorts.
Dirt surface Land, Dirt Layers digged, Water under the Land while above Dry Land, unreachable by Man.
God, created
and made….GOOD.
God, gave Dominion to manKIND….to KEEP and FOSTER GOOD.
** Man-KIND failed, and in respect of the “majority” of “ANCIENT” : Man-KIND, “continued” to FAIL.
** AND…God RESPONDED with “MAKING
MORE” DIVISIONS.
Gen 1:
[
7] And
God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Read the Scriptures….Divisions…
Water Above the Earth, sent down.
Water Under (the deep) sent upon the Earth.
ManKIND upon the Earth killed, being VOID of AIR necessary for man to sustain his Life.
Eight men SAVED. Being Risen UP Above the Earth, Above the Waters, Continuing in the Lower Heavens, Breathing Air.
Gen 7:
[
17] And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up
the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
[
18] And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and
the ark went upon the face of the waters.
[
19] And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were
under the whole heaven, were covered.
[
20] Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
[
21] And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
[
22] All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
[
23] And every living substance was
destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were
destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. <—- (Lifted UP above the Earth).
More Divisions….People…Hebrews/Gentiles.
More Divisions….Land…
Gen 10:
[
25] And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was
the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
More Divisions….Gentiles & Gentiles…Babel
Gen 11:9
More Divisions…Hebrews; Tribes of Israel/ Gentiles.
More Divisions….Jews / Tribes of Israel
More Divisions…..Men / from God, from Jesus, from Christ, from Salvation, from Earth, from Heaven….TO Hell.
Nothing NEW under the SUN…
Divisions, Gathering/ Scattering….
With and Without….
Firmaments Divisions…Firmaments Opened.
Water gathered/ Water flooding/ destroying.
Gathering the Saved/ Scattering the unSaved.
Fire OF God / Fire sent / upon the NON-Gathered remaining upon the Earth, destroying with FIRE.
Destruction with WATER…
Saving with WATER…
Destruction with FIRE…
Saving with FIRE….
The Spirit of God: POWER
The Word of God: Effects His Power’s Desire.
The TWO EDGED SWORD…
Destroy…or Save….from the SAME “Him”…
Who is THEY….Creator AND Maker.
Destroy…or Save….By, through, of DIVISIONS….then SEPARATIONS.
Luke 12:
[
51] Suppose ye that
I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather
division:
The Land was Clearly “ONE” Land.
The Land(S) Are Clearly “DIVIDED”.
The People were Clearly “ONE” People.
The People(S) Are Clearly “DIVIDED”.
Clearly, God, FIRE, SHALL END the “DIVISION”….”by, through, of….Gods Spirit (Power), Gods Word (Speech) and “SEPARATION” between Heaven AND Earth…
Between Land and Land….between Man and Man….
Glory to God,
Taken