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. Put them out of their order, and all becomes confused; receive them as God has written them, and there is perfection in the measure in which you understand them. [Note: Sailhamer, "Exegetical Notes . Abel, Enoch, Noah, we have already seen. Lyra. Following Christ's humiliation for a brief time in the passion and death, he ascended to the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens; and thus, in the person of Christ, man has already achieved the dominion mentioned here, a dominion to be more completely realized in the final resurrection. However, this explanation does violence to the Hebrew text. there is none above him, nor any below him, but he is in the And I wouldn't mind the final chapter being written up there anyhow. That man was made male and female, and blessed with the blessing of fruitfulness and increase. In our image, after our likeness I do not scrupulously insist upon the particles , (beth,) and , (caph (90)) I know not whether there is anything solid in the opinion of some who hold that this is said, because the image of God was only shadowed forth in man till he should arrive at his perfection. As we might have expected, the Genesis account of creation is from the viewpoint of the ordinary person. Man was not made in the likeness of any creature that went before him, but in the likeness of his Creator; yet still between God and man there is an infinite distance. Then, fromGenesis 2:4; Genesis 2:4, we have the subject from another point of view, not a repetition of the account of creation, but what was even more necessary to be brought here before us, the place of relationship in which God set the creation He had formed, not mutually alone, but above all, in reference to Himself. The first verse is not a summary. Genesis 1-11:26. 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. The highest, the holiest, the only suitable way, once it is laid before us, evidently is what God Himself has employed in His word. Here accordingly we find in Genesis 2:1-25, with a fulness and precision given nowhere else, God's entering into relationship with man, and man's relation to Eden, to the animal realm, and to woman specially. Genesis 3:21) we are told, that "to Adam also and to his wife did Jehovah-Elohim make coats of skins and clothed them." It is the earliest history we have of the earth and of God's relationships to men. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. Both were weakened and defiled by the fall, but were still retained in a greater or less degree. It was addressed to the serpent. God, having made them capable of transmitting the nature they had received, said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. I spoke to the fact that this mutual act of submission only makes sense and therefore . In our image, etc Interpreters do not agree concerning the meaning of these words. This is important as an additional proof that Gods likeness and image belong to the whole species man, and could not therefore have been lost by the fall, as St. Augustine supposed. 3 And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. Genesis 3:20; Genesis 3:20). following verse man was created: and over the cattle, and over all the earth; And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Hi, this is Pastor Ken. 2. a. You've got same, basically the same features, and yet we don't look alike at all! The Bible demonstrates this order of importance from the outset by fitting the story of creation into a mere week, into the opening page of a 1,000-page Bible.The Bible was never intended to be a scientific textbook. "What hast thou done?" It assigns an essential significance to the words, the heavens, in that verse. 8:30 ) and to this ancient Adam he said, "let us make man in middle: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and So we find, now, the crowning act of God's creation. [Note: Mathews, p. * If Canaan drew his father into the shameful exposure of Noah, all can see how just the sentence was. Because of this expression of God within them, men and women are in a sense Gods representatives upon earth. Notwithstanding God maintained the place that belonged to the elder brother. Both unite in this, that, as they were made of dust, to the dust they must return. Now you have God saying "let us make man in our image after our likeness". It was created after the image of God; and that image, St. Paul tells us, consisted in righteousness, true holiness, and knowledge, Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10. A large inheritance: Replenish the earth; it is this that is bestowed upon the children of men. . There is some disagreement among Old Testament scholars regarding what distinguishes biblical poetry from biblical prose. Christ only is the express image of God's person, as the Son of his Father, having the same nature. It just testifies to God's neat, inventive genius, and being able to take same basic features and just creates an infinite number of varieties.God evidently likes variety. The Lord renew it upon our souls by his sanctifying grace! As a notice of God's covenant with the earth, I may just refer, in passing, to the establishment of the bow in the cloud as the sign of the mercy of Elohim (verses Genesis 9:12-17). When we begin to enter into its real meaning, and hold fast that which is clearly the intended truth, the theory of Elohistic and Jehovistic annalists, with their redaction, vanishes into its own nothingness. And He set it apart. The world was living in harmony with God, and thus in harmony with each other.And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. It is difficult to explain how they could have an evening and morning without the rotation of the earth on its axis if the sun wasn't in position from verse one, and it wasn't created until the fourth day. I just love to see the different life forms.I love to see these crazy, little tiny bugs and I don't even know what they are, or where they're going, and I wonder if they know where they're going, but they know how to fly. It was no longer in the likeness of God, but in the image of God always. See Genesis 3:22. Such is the way in which God puts His truth, and this in the earliest part of His word. Abraham, not Adam, is the depository of promise: so speaks scripture, as far as I know, invariably. On the six days which follow I shall not dwell: the subject was before many of us not long ago. There was a trial of man in Eden, and he fell immediately: after that there was none whatever in the antediluvian world. When a compendious statement of what follows is intended, the "and" is never put. Here, then, are the great points of conformity to God in man, namely, reason, speech, will, and power. It is very simply a measure for perpetuating the creature by God the Creator, in spite of imminent judgment. "And if thou doest not well," it is said, "sin lieth at the door." See also Merrill, pp. "Them" indicates this generic significance. 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. As the crisis hour is approaching, the saying of which we've been warning, as man has carelessly lived as though there was no tomorrow, we're coming soon to the day when they'll be no tomorrow. Now, the word light here is "meor". Would there not have been a sin-offering on these occasions had the law been then in force? "In the image of God male and female created he them " This means that woman also is made in the image of God. Which would include the angels, for the angels are called the hosts of heaven.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 (Gen 2:2). Yet, the NIV Study Bible also writes in its commentary on Genesis 1:26, Us . The believer can readily understand how Noah was divinely led to pronounce a just malediction on Canaan. Will it be so always? I have no hesitation in saying that it is a mistaken interpretation, however prevalent. Scripture does not say more, and we must hold to scripture. There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. Again, the first three days refer to a lower, the second three to a higher order of things. Man was to be a creature different from all that had been hitherto made. This does not mean simply that certain parts of human beings such as their spiritual, moral or mental capacities reflect the divine nature. Marvelous is His creative genius as you really look at the various life forms.And the earth brought forth grass, and [vegetable or] herb-yielding seed after his kind, and tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. divine Creators and Makers in the plural number, ( Job 35:10 ) ( Psalms 149:2 Genesis 9:6; 1Corinthians 11:7; James 3:9.) But short of Christ's person and work, there is nothing more characteristic of God than creation. It is man as the head of creation. and are also equally interchangeable, as we may see from a comparison of this verse with Genesis 5:1 and Genesis 5:3. The use of the plural number intimates that this authority was not given to Adam only, but to all his posterity as well as to him. This explanation involves what some people call, sometimes disparagingly, the "gap theory," which shows that the Bible allows for a long time interval between verse 1 and verse 2 of Genesis 1. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. I wonder how long the pine tree could have existed before it decided, "I need to get my seeds out further" and it developed the little wing on the seed.There are other seeds that when the pod dries out they explode. God making me in His image has made me with this beautiful capacity to love. How suited to the true God, who perfectly knew the truth and would make it known to man! Every one of them is a perfect geometrical pattern, but no two snowflakes alike. God is here styled Jehovah-Elohim; and so uniformly to the end of the chapter. See Notes 2 and 5, at page 75. He had described what she was rather than who; it was only when sin had come in, and when others, had there been any, would have called her naturally the parent of death, that Adam (by what seems to be the guidance of God in faith) calls her rather the mother of the living. This breath is the seal and pledge of our relation to God, of our godlike dignity; whereas the breath breathed into the animals is nothing but the common breath, the life-wind of nature, which is moving everywhere, and only appears in the animal fixed and bound into a certain independence and individuality, so that the animal soul is nothing but a nature-soul individualized into certain, though still material spirituality." Cyrus, "The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth" Ezra 1:2. But if God had such care for us before we existed, he will by no means leave us destitute of food and of other necessaries of life, now that we are placed in the world. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. By what formal test was he proved outside? And so you get the feeling, an irritation in your ankle, and you reach down and pull that seed out and throw it down. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day (Gen 1:15-23). Angels were not made male and female, for they were not to propagate their kind (Luke 20:34-36); but man was made so, that the nature might be propagated and the race continued. And to every beast of 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 (Gen 1:29-30). I have the power of self-determination. The recognizable part of Christ will be the prints of the nails in His hands and the print of the sword in His side. Isaiah 6:8). Likewise people should maintain the other divisions in the universe. 1 In the a beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. There it is plain that the writer gives a summary. 70. fol. The real worth of God's promises cannot be lessened to a believer by any cross providences that . What are the ten numerations? That angels were themselves made in the image and likeness of God. Was it with himself, and does he here simply use the plural of majesty? The impact of this point on the remainder of the Pentateuch and the authors view of Sinai is clear: through Abraham, Israel and the covenant this blessing is to be restored to all mankind." Genesis 1-11: The Christian Standard Commentary - by Kenneth A Mathews (Hardcover) $22.49 - $40.49. Man takes a special place in creation. (84) The earth, forsooth, was a most excellent adviser! Genesis 1:26-28. It was sin not as such against God in leaving Him, like Adam's, but against man, his brother accepted of God. It doesn't necessarily mean a source of light. Forced to discover himself, Adam tells the humiliating tale: "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." He pronounces a . He had not before given his wife this her full and proper name. Therein is the choice that man was given, because having been created with the capacity of choice, it is no value unless there is something to choose.But again, in honoring and respecting my choice, if I choose that I don't want to know God, I don't want to serve God, I don't want to love God, then it would be manifestly wrong for Him to force me to go to heaven where I would have to love Him, and have to be with Him, and have to serve Him. It is not man placed in his moral relationships, but man the head of this kingdom of creation, as they say; but still even so with remarkable dignity. In the second place, a literal interpretation would leave us with all sorts of bizarre questions. 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. Genesis 47:1-50:26 Chapter 47 1 So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in the land of Goshen." 2 And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh. The Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us. Genesis 1:26. It is not said in Genesis 1:27 that man and woman were created together; or that the woman was created directly, and not formed out of one of the man's ribs. Here on the fifth day, now, we have the more complex life forms. In the first place, we are told elsewhere that God is a spirit (John 4:24; Isaiah 31:3) and that he is ubiquitous (1 Kings 8:27). But what came in immediately, and what is traced throughout the Bible, it may be noted, is the present consequence in the government of God. (88) Synecdoche is the figure which puts a part for the whole, or the whole for a part. The beautiful type of creation belonging to Christ is thus admirably preserved. Oneness is essential for an orchestra, an athletic team, and a construction crew, as well as a family, to achieve a common purpose. Genesis 1:26. But because I relate seeing to eyes, and when I talk to God about seeing, I would say, well, the eyes of the Lord go to and fro throughout the entire earth, but it doesn't necessarily follow that God has eyes, because eyes aren't necessarily essential for seeing.So what does God look like? The sun is merely the greater light to rule the day, and the moon the lesser light to rule the night. In short Enoch is the witness of the heavenly family, as Noah is of the earthly people of God. Genesis 1:26. Then we enter on the theatre and times of dispensations. It is a real joy to know that it is coming; but until that day God always has before Him, as the theatre and material where He acts, a world ruined ruined by sinful man. The notion that intelligible speech is a mere growth from the gradual putting together of elements is a dream of ingenious speculation, which may exercise men's wits, but has no foundation whatever. God made but one male and one female, that all the nations of men might know themselves to be made of one blood, descendants from one common stock, and might thereby be induced to love one another. carriage, or for all of them, some of them for one thing, and But it was important to show its ground in the facts of creation, apart from special relationship, and that made Elohim alone appropriate in this place. And so you have the "EPJ" or the "JEP" concepts of how many authors of Genesis, and somebody's even thrown in an "I" somewhere there. God the Creator would preserve such of the creatures as required the shelter of the ark. I merely use these scriptural facts to shew what seems to me the truth that "sin" here does not refer to the specific offering for it, but rather to that which was proved by evil conduct. There is more difficulty in deciding in what the likeness to God consisted. It is another statement added to what had just preceded, and by the Hebrew idiom not connected with it in time. "Jehovah." The very absurdity that God is a sexual being renders this interpretation highly unlikely. So the Holy Spirit, basically, is the author of all the scripture and who He was inspiring is of no import to us.So next week, we'll continue with chapter two. II. 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. But there is enough in man's amplification to point to what is stated here in a few simple words of truth. But the will of man pits itself invariably against the known will of God, and the very man who was doomed to be a fugitive sets to work that he may settle himself here below. . Not a word is heard about eternal life yet that must wait for His appearing who was such with the Father; not a word yet about the exhaustless riches of grace which were afterwards to abound. On the other hand, man has potential and it is unlimited in amount and variety. It is not only what he is doomed to, but the wisely ordered place for fallen man here below. And what followed after it? Those who embrace the theory that Eden lay on the Shat-el-Arab consider the Pison and the Gihon as mere branches of the stream formed by the blending of the Euphrates and the Tigris (or Hiddekel). A fly, you hate them, but yet what fabulous design! I affirm then that, when God thus made man, when He put him in Eden, the actual test was the interdict not of a thing which was in itself evil, but simply and prescriptively wrong for man because God had forbidden it. The plural form of the sentence raises the question, With whom took he counsel on this occasion? But, it doesn't seem to matter, cause a couple of weeks later, their kids take off and they fly right to Hawaii. And yet, look at the variety! That he made this image to consist in righteousness and true holiness, is by the figure synecdochee; (88) for though this is the chief part, it is not the whole of Gods image. 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. It has nothing to do with moral relationships. Our first father, Adam, was confined to one wife; and, if he had put her away, there was no other for him to marry, which plainly intimated that the bond of marriage was not to be dissolved at pleasure. By none whatever. #1 "Then God said,". I do not of course enter into details, but here is the inspired account, which shines in the midst of the horrors of that dark scene which fabulists portrayed. Next the day is reckoned from "the evening and the morning" a statement of great importance for other parts of scripture, never forgotten by the Spirit of God, but almost invariably let slip by moderns; which forgetfulness has been a great source of the difficulties that have encumbered harmonies of the Gospels. Does not Moses directly exclude all creatures in express terms, when he declares that Adam was created after the image of God? over the tame creatures, either for food, or clothing, or The Book of Genesis. (89) In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order. How is this image of God upon man defaced! The insertion of the substantive verb, as has been remarked, expresses no doubt a condition past as compared with what follows, but pointedly not said to be contemporaneous with what preceded, as would have been implied in its omission; but what interval lay between, or why such a desolation ensued, is not stated. But then, pretty soon, as the glue dries completely, it falls off and it has propagated itself. Now the key here is the grass and the vegetables and the trees yielding seed after their kind. But God does communicate in such a way as at once meets the heart, and mind, and conscience. Moral relationship? De Profugis, p. 460. Swept back wing design, and their ability to just hover, and then almost to fly backwards. In reading the Bible we must understand not only what the Bible says but also what it means. He is called "Jehovah;" He is not designated by the former mingled or compound term "Jehovah-Elohim," but by "Jehovah" simply; and this is found afterwards, either "Elohim" alone or "Jehovah in the other names of special character, as we shall see," until the call of Israel, when we have an appropriate modification in the expression of His name. * This, not to speak of other reasons, appears conclusive against the claim of the Pison to be the Ganges! Human beingsboth men and womenare made in God's image ( Genesis 1:27; 5:1-3; 9:6; James 3:9 ). He was gone from God. He rested just from His creation. the herbs and fruits of the earth; yet what can this dominion But it is well that their canine wickedness has been joined with a stupidity so great, that they betray their folly to children. When men reason instead of receiving the revealed light of the Bible, I care not who or what they may be, they only mistake God and even man. On the first day light is. "This is the book of the generations of Adam. May one not say again who beforehand would have thought of ways so truly and self-evidently divine? what disappointment and grief, both of the most poignant kind, followed ere long For Abel too was born; and in process of time it came to pass that they brought their offerings unto "Jehovah" a term, I may observe, that is here in admirable keeping. No wonder that total ruin speedily ensues. 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. Further, we now hear of the garden that was planted by Jehovah-Elohim eastward in Eden, where He put the man whom He had formed. Nizzachon, p. 5. And God said, let us make man in our image, after our. Man is fallen, and the creature made subject to vanity. The context determines which is the correct meaning in any . As it is, God reserves the striking detail for the scene of moral relationship. 2. i Ibid. Man feels that this is exactly what is appropriate to God. ** And Jehovah-Elohim formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.". God, having introduced His own Son, has won the victory, the fruits of which He gives to us by faith before our possession is displayed by and-by. It is an awesome thing to realize that God does respect my choice.Now, He does speak to influence my choice because He loves me, and He knows what is best for me. 3. God created man capable of governing the world, and when fitted for the office, he fixed him in it. Man, being created in the image of God was created a self-determinant being. I'm so glad that I know Him. Human lusts and passions were not yet in question, but they soon followed the desire of having what God had forbidden. They may indulge in speculations of the mind, or visions of the imagination a substitute for what is real, and a cheat of the enemy. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness " It is the kinship of humanity to God Himself that shines in this, a conception that is launched here and is never diminished until the God-Man Himself, "The Lamb standing as though it had been slain" (Revelation 5:6), is seen in the very midst of the throne of 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. By will we choose, determine, and resolve upon what is to be done. 145.] I make sounds by the use of the throat and the tongue and the teeth, and the roof of the mouth and so forth. "I don't want God in my life! Gregory Nyssen has very properly observed that the superiority of man to all other parts of creation is seen in this, that all other creatures are represented as the effect of God's word, but man is represented as the work of God, according to plan and consideration: Let US make MAN in our IMAGE, after our LIKENESS. "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. The next chapter (Genesis 3:1-24) shows us the result of the test which we have seen laid down by Jehovah-Elohim. It is not, but rather of moral relationship. And this honour, put upon man at first, is a good reason why we should not speak ill one of another (James 3:9), nor do ill one to another (Genesis 9:6), and a good reason why we should not debase ourselves to the service of sin, and why we should devote ourselves to God's service. am that I am, ( Exodus 3:14 ) and he And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth. Six years they may go into slavery, the seventh year they are set free. To the end of the third verse of that chapter it was always God (Elohim) as such. 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. Could He have made them otherwise consistently with His own character? An inspired author could not have expressed himself differently from Moses without impairing the perfect beauty and accuracy of the truth. 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