27-28; Charles Feinberg, "The Image of God," Bibliotheca Sacra 129:515 (July-September 1972):235-246, esp. I don't know. God produces life, whether it be for the fish that people the sea, for the birds of the air, or for the beasts, cattle, or reptiles, on the dry land. I still know it's daytime, because there's light, but yet I don't see the sun. And the common distinction is, that image exists in the substance, likeness in the accidents of anything. p. 108. apud Wagenseil. * If Canaan drew his father into the shameful exposure of Noah, all can see how just the sentence was. "After His likeness". Carmen Memorial. As it is, God reserves the striking detail for the scene of moral relationship. The last and greatest victory of all is over the wild animals, which are included under the class of creepers that are prone in their posture, and move in a creeping attitude over the land. ], "Although the Christian Trinity cannot be derived solely from the use of the plural, a plurality within the unity of the Godhead may be derived from the passage." But needless to say, Jesus is coming soon. Being the truth, whatever man discovers that is true will never clash with it. Last week we finished looking at verse 21, the reasons for, and the value of, learning to submit to one another in our marriages. 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. Genesis 1:1-2) mankind male and female; they did not evolve from a lower form of life (cf. We have here the second part of the sixth day's work, the creation of man, which we are, in a special manner, concerned to take notice of, that we may know ourselves. 2 He was in the beginning with God. [Note: Sailhamer, "Genesis," p. said Jehovah. This apparently means that a relationship of close fellowship can exist between God and man that is unlike the relationship of God with the rest of his creation. For God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth, and God is seeking such to worship Him.So the very first commandment that God gave was "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." Now, when God created our bodies, He created ears so that we could hear, designed them so that they would pick up sound vibrations that would bounce or vibrate the little incus stapes, and bones in there and send these vibrations into the brain that my brain would interpret as words and sounds and make it intelligible to me. On the other hand, "Blessed be Jehovah the God" for God does not dwell upon the curse, but soon turns to the blessing "Blessed be Jehovah the God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." And let them rule. An innocent man could not have had the knowledge of good and evil; it pertains necessarily to a fallen one. It's just called a light holder. Man is to eat of "every seed-bearing herb on the face of all the earth, and every tree on which there are fruits containing seed," consequently of the productions of both field and tree, in other words, of corn and fruit; the animals are to eat of "every green herb," i.e., of vegetables or green plants, and grass. The decay of animals is a law of nature established in the creation itself, and not a consequence of sin, or an effect of the death brought into the world by the sin of man. The evil is traced home at last to its source, and the serpent is brought fully out. Now, He created also the mammals, the great whales. The land, as understood by the ancient author, may be limited to that portion of the earths surface which was known to antediluvian man. "And in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God. Thanks be to God, One has come who is before Him in unfailing sweet savour, so that if sin be in the background, there cannot but be also what He introduces of His own free grace. The rebellious spirit of the forefather shows itself in the descendant Lamech. The soul is first, in Gods image. In judgment as in grace God is always wise. This concrete essence of the divine likeness was shattered by sin; and it is only through Christ, the brightness of the glory of God and the expression of His essence (Hebrews 1:3), that our nature is transformed into the image of God again (Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24). Our. Not "El", but "Elohim" created the heavens and the earth.And the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, moved over the face of the waters. He wants to remain totally formless in your mind.To this extent, I really don't care for pictures of Christ, because there is an attempt to define Him in a form. 2. Nevertheless, even in his fallen state, man retains something of the image of God, for every human being is potentially the beneficiary of the blood of Christ and an heir of everlasting life. This only may be remarked in addition, that "the sons of God," in my judgment, mean the same beings in Genesis as they do in Job. Then what confirmation of one's faith! Such was his relation to the creature; he was put in that place by God. It is God that does all, whether it be for the earth, the air, or the waters. When God created human beings as male and female he formed them to exhibit a oneness in their relationship that would resemble the relationship of God and his heavenly court. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day (Gen 1:15-23). is, over all the beasts of the earth, as appears by comparing it 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. 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. When understood, it is really awful in itself and its results. As for the transfer of the site of the garden lower down in the plain of Shinar, it appears to me altogether untenable. [Note: See Mathews, p. God forbid that by indulging the body and the desires of it we should make ourselves like the beasts that perish! Genesis 1:27. It is the great truth of sacrifice, of which Abel's faith laid hold, realising and confessing in his slain lamb that there was no other way in a ruined world for a holy relationship, and for the confession of the truth too, as between God and man. The first group shows how God created the basic spheres of operation (light and dark; sea and sky; fertile land), the second how he created the features within each of those spheres (lights of day and night; creatures of sea and sky; creatures of the land).This simple creation story, though not intended to be a scientific account, is not in conflict with science. Most wisely all such details awaited the unfolding of another day. Lyra. It may be observed, that the plural number is used, "let But it is, secondly, in Gods likeness, which implies something closer and more inward. The highest, the holiest, the only suitable way, once it is laid before us, evidently is what God Himself has employed in His word. 9-54, for a discussion of the subject.]. No such interval, however, could be absolutely necessary, as the Creator could as easily establish the luminous connection of the different orbs of heaven as summon into being the element of light itself. Ed. [Note: For a critique of this book, see Douglas C. Bozzung, "An Evaluation of the Biosphere Model of Genesis 1," Bibliotheca Sacra 162:648 (October-December 2005):406-23. Where is anything like it in all the known ways of God? The thing indeed is true; but I do not think that anything of the kind entered the mind of Moses. A man who despises him whom he is bound to honour, not to speak of the special distinction which God had shown him, must come to shame and degradation, must be not merely a servant but "a servant of servants." It has been gathered from the varying names of God, etc., by speculative minds that there must have been different documents joined together in this book. Genesis 1:9-13 9 Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. It should seem that of the rest of the creatures God made many couples, but of man did not he make one? Some . The last is Philo's explanation: ( equals angels). We see the clock winding out. It depends for its existence upon God. ." Modern science has revealed so much about the wonders and the size of the physical universe that human beings may seem almost to be nothing. and supply the defects of it, since the fall, lays down at first this principle of the unclouded light of nature: That this world was, in the beginning of time, created by a Being of infinite . He doesn't make any two of them alike. Likewise people should maintain the other divisions in the universe. [Note: Henry F. Lazenby, "The Image of God: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter?" And when the pinecone dries, it begins to pop open, and the little seed falls free. In looking into the meaning of these verses we are attempting to discover the nature of man. [Note: See James Jordan, "Rebellion, Tyranny, and Dominion in the Book of Genesis," Christianity and Civilization 3 (Summer 1983):38-80. Read the Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28. Hitherto they had been of one lip; but combining to make a name to themselves, lest they should be scattered, not to exalt God nor confide in Him, they had their language confounded, and themselves dispersed. 26.Let us make man (83) Although the tense here used is the future, all must acknowledge that this is the language of one apparently deliberating. The plant forms of course, are necessarily rooted. and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air; that is, to catch them, and eat them; though in the after grant of food to man, no mention as yet is made of any other meat than the herbs and fruits of the earth; yet what can this dominion over fish and fowl signify, unless it be a power to feed upon them? So far is the book of Genesis, therefore, from indicating a mere clumsy compiler, who strung together documents which had neither cohesion nor distinctive propriety, instead of there being merely two or three sets of traditions edited by another party, there is really the perfect statement of the truth of God, the expression of one mind, as is found in no writings outside the Bible. Kisah ini pada pokoknya berasal dari tradisi Yahwista, kecuali Kej 26:34-35 (Para Imam). 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. "And let them have dominion " This is another quality of man's kinship with the Eternal. God Himself has touched it but curtly. But I often wonder why God made such weird-looking fish, in such variety, and then the fabulous colors! when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. But it is the soul, the great soul, of man, that does especially bear God's image. And God created the 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. But there is more than this, though this be of exceeding interest; because we see with equal certainty and clearness why Jehovah-Elohim is introduced not before but here, and why man's becoming a living soul by the inbreathing of God was said here and not in the first chapter. 56. And yet, they are so exquisitely beautiful when you look at them under a microscope. God's chief emotional attribute is love, so God created us with a capacity to love. In any case it was mercy to confine the curse certainly earned by Ham within the narrowest limits, instead of extending it to all his posterity. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the . - Sea and air are filled with living creatures; and the word of God now goes forth to the earth, to produce living beings after their kind. So all of the animals at that point lived off of the grasses and vegetation. The creation of man does not take place through a word addressed by God to the earth, but as the result of the divine decree, "We will make man in Our image, after our likeness," which proclaims at the very outset the distinction and pre-eminence of man above all the other creatures of the earth. Having created the world with its many life forms, He now wants one to rule over these life forms. So, that seems to lend credence to the "gap theory" that the heavens and the earth were created in verse one, this is an account of re-creation.Now the fog cloud's removed and the sun and the moon becoming visible and are now used to mark off years and days and months; used as time indicators and the greater light to rule the day, the lesser light holder to rule the night. Thirdly the dry land appears, and the earth bringing forth grass, and herb, and fruit-tree. The two terms occur in the very same verse; yet is there not an evident propriety in each case? In the New Testament these unfoldings have the profoundest character, but everywhere they are divine; for there is no difference, whether it be the Old or the New, in the absolutely divine character of the written word. Adam did not preserve the place in which God had set him. By what formal test was he proved outside? . Genesis 1-11: The Christian Standard Commentary - by Kenneth A Mathews (Hardcover) $22.49 - $40.49. (Comp. "Man" refers to mankind, not Adam individually (Genesis 1:27). The word Adam, which we translate man, is intended to designate the species of animal, as chaitho . With this the legends of the heathen world respecting the golden age of the past, and its return at the end of time, also correspond (cf. But, it doesn't seem to matter, cause a couple of weeks later, their kids take off and they fly right to Hawaii. Abel, Enoch, Noah, we have already seen. Verse Genesis 1:26. These are both very good. It has been supposed by some that God speaks here to the angels, when he says, Let us make man; but to make this a likely interpretation these persons must prove, 1. How possibly have that discrimination which decides morally between what is good and what is evil? The context determines which is the correct meaning in any . There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. Never was there a moment when man was verging more evidently towards apostacy from the truth, and that not merely as to redemption, but even as to creation, as to himself, and above all as to his relationship with God. Oneness involves being in agreement with Gods will and purposes. [Note: The NET Bible note on 1:26.] Unquestionably. We gather from the present chapter that God is a spirit Genesis 1:2, that he thinks, speaks, wills, and acts (Genesis 1:3-4, etc.). De Opificio, p. 16. h Tikkune Zohar, correct. Certainly this is not mere creation in view, but special dealings of a moral sort. 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. But it is the word of God, and nothing can be more suitable to God, gracious to man, or just to the enemy. It is not concerned with the sort of investigation that modern science is concerned with. Expect More. Hebrews 1:13, 14. [Note: Bruce K. Waltke, "Reflections from the Old Testament on Abortion," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 19:1 (Winter 1976):8. Not merely with the elements of his body will he reappear, which is quite true, but besides he will reappear bodily in connection with a soul that never died. "After its kind:" this refers to all three classes of living creatures, each of which had its peculiar species; consequently in Genesis 1:25, where the word of God is fulfilled, it is repeated with every class. At first the earth was featureless and in darkness because of the mass of surrounding water, but as the thick clouds of water vapour began to lose their density, a hazy light came by day from the invisible sun (1:1-5; first day). If we did not see it at once, this was merely because of our dullness. All rights reserved. It was addressed to the serpent. And on six days, they are to do their labors, the seventh day they are to rest. Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:27; . Many commentators opine that these words, "image" and "likeness," are essentially synonymous in Hebrewmeaning that human beings generally look like Godbut doing so limits God's creativity to the merely physical. It is the present result. correct. First, It exhibits the consistency of the whole narrative in itself. of God. "For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. And those instinctive abilities in the birds!I'm always fascinated by that little bird in Hawaii that goes up into the Aleutian chain in order to mate. It's just to me exciting, that God is not limited to just one design.If you'd look around tonight you'd see that God isn't limited to just one design. The Book of Genesis. Would there not have been a sin-offering on these occasions had the law been then in force? But we have on the first day light, and a most remarkable fact it is (I may in passing just say) that the inspired historian should have named it. But inGenesis 2:1-25; Genesis 2:1-25, beginning with verse 4, where we have special position and moral responsibility coming to view for the first time, the compound term which expresses the Supreme putting Himself in relation with man, and morally dealing with him here below, is first used, and with the most striking appropriateness. For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.". Man, the race, became simply outcasts morally nothing else from that day till after the flood. Chapter 12:1-21:34 Abraham, the father of all believers (Romans 4) a. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Men have fancied contradictions; they have fallen back on the old resource of opposed documents put together. In short, Christ has intervened, and this most weighty consequence is connected with it that, although everything manifests evil and ruin increasingly, God has triumphed in grace and in faith after the fall and before "the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." Without pretending to enter into particulars, this I may remark that in the Bible there is not a more important chapter thanGenesis 10:1-32; Genesis 10:1-32 as regards the providential arrangement of tongues, families, and nations Here alone is given the rise of different races, with their sources. How the various organs of the human body function, for example, is a problem for medical science to solve, not the Bible. Men have been planting grains of wheat for millenniums and he has yet to plant a grain of wheat and have a corn stalk grow out of it. May we confide not only in scripture, but in Him who gave it! They pop and the seed shoots out, exploding kind of a seed. This passage has intrigued Bible students for millennia. In the day that God created man." Fires and candles, the luminaries of this lower world, because they waste, and go out, have a power to light more; but it is not so with the lights of heaven: stars do not kindle stars. He is to be related to the Eternal Being himself. Psalm 19:1-6 tells us the heavens contain a message from God. Most appropriately it is to Jehovah now. Almost every word gives evidence of it. But in Genesis 6:1-22 we have a very solemn statement the apostacy of the ancient world. From Genesis 1:1 to 2:4, the Bible briefly relates the steps that God took in creating the earth and all living things on it, including the first man and woman.After this general outline, the Bible gives a more detailed account of the creation of man and woman. earth; The order here is from the lowest to the highest. 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. As we saw God Himself the Creator and the moral Governor, so further we find the enemy of God and of man in exact accordance with the latest word that God speaks. On this however we need not say more than that He "drove out the man," lest he should perpetuate the condition of ruin into which he had passed. Here he gave them, 1. I can understand, when all is clear, a word used figuratively; but nothing would be so likely to let elements of difficulty into the subject, as at once giving us in tropical language what elsewhere is put in the simplest possible forms. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. A person is held out the Seed of the woman; for the manner most expressly bespeaks the tender mercy of God. But how art thou fallen, O son of the morning! Read reviews and buy Genesis 11:27-50:26, 1 - (New American Commentary) by Kenneth Mathews (Hardcover) at Target. De Profugis, p. 460. Now as we get into the creation of the animal-type of life in the fifth day, first of all, the life forms in the water, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly," and my, the teeming life forms in the water! ((i) Ibid. Chapter Overview: The holy scripture, being designed to maintain and improve natural religion, to repair the decays of it. Explanation and Commentary of Genesis 1:26 On the sixth day, God created the crown jewel of his creation, mankind. We have had their failure under law; we look for their stability under Messiah and the new covenant. 124.] Human beings are its main concern, for they alone are made in Gods image. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. What dispensation or age was there here? God saw His work, and behold it was all very good; i.e., everything perfect in its kind, so that every creature might reach the goal appointed by the Creator, and accomplish the purpose of its existence. By beginning the words rendered Wisdom and Power with capitals, it would appear that the second and third Persons of the Trinity were in the mind of the writer when the passage was written. the cause of causes said to "`jod', he, `vau', he"; that is, to Jehovah, which is in the midst of the ten numerations. "Jehovah." And, more than that, the position of these rivers seems to me to explain what has often been a difficulty to many the account that is given us here, that "a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads;" because if the garden of Eden lay in that quarter (that is to say in Armenia), in the part of it where are found the springs or watershed of these rivers, they would be all within a certain circumscribed quarter, as surrounding this garden. It is only faith that really accepts what comes from God; and faith alone gives the clue to what is around us now, but then it guides us through all present entanglements by believing God whether as to what He once made or what He will yet do. The grand question to be tried we have afterwards. Genesis 1:25. And if natural science cannot boast that in any one of its many branches it has discovered all the phenomena connected with the animal and human organism of the existing world, how could it pretend to determine or limit the changes through which this organism may have passed in the course of thousands of years? In the New . The text tells us he was the work of ELOHIM, the Divine Plurality, marked here more distinctly by the plural pronouns US and OUR; and to show that he was the masterpiece of God's creation, all the persons in the Godhead are represented as united in counsel and effort to produce this astonishing creature. I. Lastly, in the fifth chapter, without making any mention of image, he puts likeness in its place, (Genesis 5:1.) You've got something over me. (91) Innuit in homine esse imaginem Dei, sed imperfectam et qualem umbrae. Oleaster in Poli Synopsi. But although such passages as 1 Kings 22:19., Psalm 89:8, and Daniel 10, show that God, as King and Judge of the world, is surrounded by heavenly hosts, who stand around His throne and execute His commands, the last interpretation founders upon this rock: either it assumes without sufficient scriptural authority, and in fact in opposition to such distinct passages as Genesis 2:7, Genesis 2:22; Isaiah 40:13 seq., Genesis 44:24, that the spirits took part in the creation of man; or it reduces the plural to an empty phrase, inasmuch as God is made to summon the angels to cooperate in the creation of man, and then, instead of employing them, is represented as carrying out the work alone. How thrilling to be able to see the design in nature, all testifying of the wisdom of the God that I serve. His affections were all regular, and he had no inordinate appetites or passions. To God's appeal he answers with no less hardness and audacity than falsehood, "I know not." 3. Fourth, it is also in harmony with the elementary facts of geological knowledge. Holmes and Parsons show, however, the omission of supplied in not a few MSS., whether by the translators or by their copyists may be a question. The scientist may speak of the sun as the centre of the solar system, with the earth a minor planet of the sun, and the moon a small satellite of the earth.
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