Sixth Day or Eighth Day Creation
Many suppose that Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day of God’s creation. This biblical observation is a study of the man Adam and the differences between the first and second chapters of the book of Genesis.
Gen 1:26, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 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 every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth”. Vs. 27, “So God created man in His image, in the image of God He created He him; male and female crated them”.
Father is so subtle in His teachings and if we skim over what is said we could miss out on the understanding intended for our learning.
Notice in Genesis 1:27 man was created male and female. Many say the 2nd chapter gives us a closer view of the creation of the 1st chapter; but does it?
Gen. 2:3, “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God had created and made”. Vs. 7, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breadth into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul”.
It is important at this point to pick up on the word differences between created and formed. Notice Isaiah 43:1, “But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel”. And Isaiah 64: 8, “But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay and thou our potter; and we are all the work of thy hand”. We have first the creation of clay, then the forming of the clay. The word created has to do with the natural seed and the word formed the spiritual seed. Parents do it the same way, first they create the child, then comes the molding and forming the character in the child. When Jacob(natural seed) endured with God as in Gen. 32:48, God changed his name to Israel (spiritual seed).
Races
Where did the races come from? Were the races created from the Adam we find in the 2nd chapter of Genesis or were the races created by another means? It’s important to understand at this point that God does what He does naturally. We can look to the heavens or to mother nature and see that there is a natural order of the things that exist. There are no shortcuts or pie in the sky happenings, everything is in it’s natural order.
Chapter one says that God made man male and female. If man being male and female and were created of the dust of the ground, then how is it that the woman in chapter 2 of Genesis was taken from the man (Genesis 2:22) ? Remember, there is a difference between the word created found in chapter 1 (natural seed) and the word formed ( spiritual seed) we find in chapter 2. When we consider what is said in Gods word, then we would come to a correct conclusion that the races could not come from one man and follow the laws and natural order of things that exist.
Little but Very Big Words––th––Ha
In the Hebrew language there is the article eth and the particle ha. In chapter one the article eth is used and denotes the name Adam as a reference to all of mankind in general. That’s the reason we see the word female used in that chapter. In chapter 2 we find the article eth and the particle ha used for the name Adam denoting and calling particular attention to a specific Adam.
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