@32:58: I don't think there is any need for a temporary light source. No mention is made in the text of this; indeed astronomic markers were not provided until day 4. The point of the definition of days as 'evening and morning' type days was to calibrate them. Lighting conditions were irrelevant, but passage of time was. God was using the chronological/historical delimiter of 'day' to show us that he was creating in our history. This is the start of the history we are in, and was delivered in terms of the same days by which we do what we do! This shows us a few things: God is near, not distant - he is active and present in our world, acting from the start in our history. | He is cognizant of the tempo of life that we experience, that sets our 'life-world'. Not only cognizant but able to do his creating within its bounds. This later makes huge sense of the covenantal relationship of the Sabbath, made to mark again the fellowship of God and Man in the people of God who will bring the Messiah and herald the New Creation. | The sabbath is the marker for Israel of its mission; to make the way for the one who will undo the fall. It also shows that directly from God's 'hand' (Psalm 8) is the creation and by his wisdom (Proverbs 3:19-20). It is God's direct act in love of making the creation. Nothing intervenes, but it is God himself who creates (by Christ, of course: Colossians 1:15-20). | God's thus creating shows that he is distinct from his creation, but its author in great power. If the creation 'made itself' we very quickly arrive at an anonymous deist god who is not in fellowship with man, and man is alone in a mystery world. We have this as the trend from the Enlightenment on, and this paved the way for evolutionary thought. | It also shows that we are in a real creation that isn't merged with god as the pagans have it. This is the real world, not imaginary, not a fairy tale lost in time, not 'evil' (but very good) and made by a lesser God, as Gnostics held, so our experience of life is real, and the structure God provided in Genesis and throughout scripture is reflective of our grounding in who God really is. The creation week shows us God at work, in reality: it shows an orderly and rational causality in the real material and spiritual worlds, it shows clearly differentiated natural (created, and thus god-ish) categories in every aspect of the creation, but differentiated and distinct in a coherent set of variable relationships that are plottable, comprehensible and fruitful. This runs from human sexuality to our experience of the 'natural' and material world: spoken from the will of the Creator. It shows us a world whose delighfulness is blessed by the creator who calls it, finalised in man as like the creator, in his image and able to be in communion with him, as very good. | Finally it demonstrates the reality of our personhood, and what it is to reflect God's image: to have effective will, to make decisions, to evaluate, to be able to understand, to be fit vicegerents (stewards, but more so). These are at the heart of our nature...and also exhibited by our creator. This enables our fellowship with God (pre-fall, and once regenerated). How could anyone not wonder at the marvel of it!
You're close to figuring out something that, maybe, will be "a bit bitter"... The Creator says things about spiritual domain. The serpent, a wisdom symbol, talks about material things. The Creator was creating all things, including the evil and poisoning ones. There was at the SAME tree, the knowledge from both deltas, the good and the bad (right and left, Up and Down - a cross). Some look for Jesus' Cross and mock, and some cry and repent... And no Jesus follower was there looking to have pleasures in this life. And they were not rich nor were killed gently. I hope that helps. Read Dt 28 just to make it a little easier to understand that THE SAME Who created the health, created the illness. The point is, what do we do with that...
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The skins that covered Adam and Eve in the garden could have been potentially the first sacrificial Bloodshed to cover our nakedness
EVILution
It's a conflict of man's sin nature and God's holy righteous laws .
@32:58: I don't think there is any need for a temporary light source. No mention is made in the text of this; indeed astronomic markers were not provided until day 4. The point of the definition of days as 'evening and morning' type days was to calibrate them. Lighting conditions were irrelevant, but passage of time was. God was using the chronological/historical delimiter of 'day' to show us that he was creating in our history. This is the start of the history we are in, and was delivered in terms of the same days by which we do what we do! This shows us a few things: God is near, not distant - he is active and present in our world, acting from the start in our history.
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He is cognizant of the tempo of life that we experience, that sets our 'life-world'. Not only cognizant but able to do his creating within its bounds. This later makes huge sense of the covenantal relationship of the Sabbath, made to mark again the fellowship of God and Man in the people of God who will bring the Messiah and herald the New Creation.
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The sabbath is the marker for Israel of its mission; to make the way for the one who will undo the fall. It also shows that directly from God's 'hand' (Psalm 8) is the creation and by his wisdom (Proverbs 3:19-20). It is God's direct act in love of making the creation. Nothing intervenes, but it is God himself who creates (by Christ, of course: Colossians 1:15-20).
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God's thus creating shows that he is distinct from his creation, but its author in great power. If the creation 'made itself' we very quickly arrive at an anonymous deist god who is not in fellowship with man, and man is alone in a mystery world. We have this as the trend from the Enlightenment on, and this paved the way for evolutionary thought.
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It also shows that we are in a real creation that isn't merged with god as the pagans have it. This is the real world, not imaginary, not a fairy tale lost in time, not 'evil' (but very good) and made by a lesser God, as Gnostics held, so our experience of life is real, and the structure God provided in Genesis and throughout scripture is reflective of our grounding in who God really is.
The creation week shows us God at work, in reality: it shows an orderly and rational causality in the real material and spiritual worlds, it shows clearly differentiated natural (created, and thus god-ish) categories in every aspect of the creation, but differentiated and distinct in a coherent set of variable relationships that are plottable, comprehensible and fruitful. This runs from human sexuality to our experience of the 'natural' and material world: spoken from the will of the Creator.
It shows us a world whose delighfulness is blessed by the creator who calls it, finalised in man as like the creator, in his image and able to be in communion with him, as very good.
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Finally it demonstrates the reality of our personhood, and what it is to reflect God's image: to have effective will, to make decisions, to evaluate, to be able to understand, to be fit vicegerents (stewards, but more so). These are at the heart of our nature...and also exhibited by our creator. This enables our fellowship with God (pre-fall, and once regenerated). How could anyone not wonder at the marvel of it!
You're close to figuring out something that, maybe, will be "a bit bitter"...
The Creator says things about spiritual domain.
The serpent, a wisdom symbol, talks about material things.
The Creator was creating all things, including the evil and poisoning ones.
There was at the SAME tree, the knowledge from both deltas, the good and the bad (right and left, Up and Down - a cross).
Some look for Jesus' Cross and mock, and some cry and repent...
And no Jesus follower was there looking to have pleasures in this life. And they were not rich nor were killed gently.
I hope that helps.
Read Dt 28 just to make it a little easier to understand that THE SAME Who created the health, created the illness.
The point is, what do we do with that...
This guy sucks at science.