Creation in Genesis
(* indicates my own thoughts)
(Genesis 1.)
¶1 In the beginning* God created the heaven** and the earth***.
2 And the earth was without form****, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.
*Beginning (time) before anything else
**Heaven (space)
***Earth (dirt and other matter)
****Without form (doesn't mean chaotic but just wasn't finished)
¶3 And God said, Let there be light*: and there was light. 4 And
God saw the light, that it was good**: and God divided the light
from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day***.
*light (not the sun)
**good (no reason for improvement)
***THE first day (the means definite)
¶6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And
God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament
Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
(no comments needed for this)
¶9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was
so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was
good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind*,
whose seed is in itself**, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after
his kind: and God saw that it was good***. 13 And the evening and
the morning were the third day.
*kind (common characteristics and quality)
**seed in itself (producing it's kind)
***good (no reason for improvement)
¶14 And God said, Let there be lights* in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let
them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two
great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God
set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and
to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was
good**. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
*Sun and moon (Thank God those plants need sun in a hurry
no way they could had waited as mentioned in the gap theory
** good (no reason for improvement)
¶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. 21 And God created
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.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
*kind (common characteristics and quality)
**kind (common characteristics and quality)
***good (no reason for improvement)
¶24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind*, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth
after his kind**: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the
earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind**, and every thing
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it
was good***.
*kind (common characteristics and quality)
**kind (common characteristics and quality)
***good (no reason for improvement)
¶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. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female created he
them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.
*God wasn't a caveman or a primate, Jesus came as a man.
¶29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed*, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in
the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed*; to you it shall be
for meat. 30 And to every beast of the 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.
*good (no reason for improvement)
**even the dinosaurs ate grass, none ate fleshly meat.
¶31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,
it was very good*. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day.
*very good (definitely no reason for improvement)
(Genesis 2:1-3)
¶1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them. 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. 3 And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from
all his work which God created and made.
*ended his work (creation is complete)
**Only took 6 days total and God took a rest
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