Genesis: In the Beginning...

Ah Genesis! The place where the world and everything in it was created!

I’m not about to retype the bible in its entirety here, that is a waste of my time and yours, but I will summarize so please bear with me through these parts as I am not perfect.

THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED:

GENESIS

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

1:2 And the earth was without form, void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Pretty self-explanatory I would like to believe… except for one little thing… God didn’t create water. Feel free to reread the passages to make sure I didn’t just pull that one out of the air—here’s a recap: So far He has created heaven, and earth—and that’s it. I don’t know about you, but I can’t stretch “heaven” or “earth” to mean “water. And furthermore, if the earth is without form, void, with darkness upon the face of the deep… then how is it that The Spirit of God was able to move on nonexistent waters?

And while this isn’t going to push any over the top righteous Christian to suddenly believe in creationism, it’s a start. After all this would be clear proof that H²0 wasn’t created by God but it did aid in the creation of all living things.

Yet, as usual, there will be those who refute it anyway. Maybe all life comes from water, including God himself?

**1:3 – 1:19 God then goes on to make day and night, plants the earth, and moves the waters aside to create dry land and seas.**

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.

How interesting… God says “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life…”But as we read in the two previous bible passages… water is the one bit of the equation that God didn’t create, so therefore we must assume that he didn’t exactly “create” life. This is another passage that confirms the theory of evolution—maybe Darwin wasn’t such a bad guy after al.! Now this isn’t to say that “God” didn’t in some way help the evolutionary process—but we can clearly see by process of elimination, that if he didn’t create the water then he didn’t create “moving creatures that hath life”.

** 1:21 – 1:25 And God created some more stuff and told everything to be fruitful and multiply.**

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.

1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female, created he them.

First let’s take note of the plural forms used in the first of the above verses. Is it possible that God did not act alone? Could he have convened with others to decide on exactly how man was to be created? It sure sounds that way. Also “male and female, created he them”, now many people have surmised that this is just a portend of the future where God borrows a rib from Adam, but those people don’t seem to realize that Genesis Chapter 1 ends with verse 1:31 which clearly states “And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Genesis Chapter 2 begins with The finishing and the resting where we find 2:2 “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made”. Seems chronological to me.

So then here’s the billion dollar question… If male and female were already created, why did God create Eve as ‘an help meet’? There are some who believe that God originally created Lilith, who apparently went wayward, and therefore God created Eve. I’m not so sure.

** 1:28 – 2:19 God blessed everything, God rested, God blessed everything some more… ( God made Adam out of Dirt, and NOT dirty monkeys—just plain ol’ dirt ) God planted Eden, then named the rivers of Eden… He told Adam not to Eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge… **

2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

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.

2:22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a Woman, and brought her unto the man.

2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

And so ends Genesis Chapter 2. Okay recap time again: God already created male and female, back before he rested when everything was good, but then he caused Adam to sleep and took out a rib. Now it would be truly uneducated of us if we didn’t happen to notice exactly how much like an operation this sounds. So if God is performing operations with an anesthetic that induces sleep, is it not also plausible to believe that he just might have the power to extract DNA from man’s rib? And that the new creature is called Woman because she is taken out of man Wo-man. So we might infer that “Wo” means to take out of, as a side note, should we find some reason to use it in the future.

Also here is where we first see assigned gender roles well before Eve and the snake have their little falling out. Would God have created man male and female if he never wanted them to procreate? I sometimes wonder if female #1 was incompatible with Adam and so they tried again using bits of his own DNA to iron out the little kinks. Or maybe “male and female” refer to the cave men; is it not possible that God may have failed in his first few attempts to create the perfect set of matching man and woman in his image? You can argue this point all you want, bit if humans were created in God’s image, and humans sometimes fail and have to have another go at it then wouldn’t it make sense to have our traits match our creators?

Here is a link to BBC's Prehistoric Life page!

And now that everything is created… where are these rather large dinosaurs that we as very tiny humans in comparison have total dominion over… I wonder what Adam named them?