Had the crime depended on man's retaining the likeness of God, murder might have been denied or justified, because if a man were not like God the unlikeness might be urged in extenuation of killing him. The insufficiency of their resources had been proved. Consequently a moral test such as the wise and prudent would introduce here, and count a worthier reason why there should be so vast a ruin for the world ensuing, is out of the question. 1 In the a beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Gesenius on Isaiah 11:6-8). They were made to dwell upon the face of all the earth,Acts 17:26. The Jews sometimes say, that Adam and Eve were created in the likeness of the holy blessed God, and his Shechinah h; and they also speak i of Adam Kadmon the ancient Adam, as the cause of causes, of whom it is said, "I was as one brought up with him (or an artificer with him), Proverbs 8:30 and to this ancient Adam he said, "let us make man in our image, after our likeness": and again, "let us make man"; to whom did he say this? p. 108. apud Wagenseil. Scripture does not say more, and we must hold to scripture. This is the force of it. In the remarkable list, which is pursued down to Noah, we have another great truth set forth in the most simple and beautiful way the power of life which exempts from the reign of death, and not only that, but the witness to heaven as a place for man. This, as suggesting an external likeness, may refer to mans reason, free-will, self-consciousness, and so on. 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. For God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth, and God is seeking such to worship Him.So the very first commandment that God gave was "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." They're not rooted, they're not grounded, they are mobile, and the various cycles that God has created, the whole process is just so marvelous indeed. likeness 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. I don't know. Does he have sexual organs, and if so, which? How the various organs of the human body function, for example, is a problem for medical science to solve, not the Bible. However, the word for "let us make" (naaseh, ) which is plural, is translated as "let us make" () which is plural in the Greek as well. *It seems almost too trivial to notice what Dr. Davidson and Bishop Colenso (or their German sources) say of Genesis 2:5-6, as if inconsistent with Genesis 1:9-10. Not merely with the elements of his body will he reappear, which is quite true, but besides he will reappear bodily in connection with a soul that never died. 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. And God here too beautifully marks His feeling. For all scripture was given by inspiration of God. let them be for lights in the firmament in the heavens to give light upon the earth: and it was so. to make use of it as should seem convenient for them. Believers can, for by faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God (Hebrews 11:3). the likeness of the holy blessed God, and his Shechinah Man is to eat of "every seed-bearing herb on the face of all the earth, and every tree on which there are fruits containing seed," consequently of the productions of both field and tree, in other words, of corn and fruit; the animals are to eat of "every green herb," i.e., of vegetables or green plants, and grass. What God looks like; none of us know. "How do they reckon? These again are of less importance than the land, which man tills and renders fruitful in all that can gratify his appetite or his taste. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah. (91) Innuit in homine esse imaginem Dei, sed imperfectam et qualem umbrae. Oleaster in Poli Synopsi. In the former he speaks as one having authority, in this as one having affection; for his delights were with the sons of men,Proverbs 8:31. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [and] he made the stars also. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. that says let us make, is Jehovah; I am the first, and I am the Thus man was rich before he was born. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. I must be permitted here to say a word on a subject which, if it has called out enormous discussion, betrays in its course, I am sorry to say, no small amount of evident infidelity. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" So it was that the serpent envenomed morally the heart of the woman first, and then of the man. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. And the same was in the beginning with God, and all things were made by Him"(Joh 1:1). With us saying and doing are two things; but they are not so with God. Does not Moses directly exclude all creatures in express terms, when he declares that Adam was created after the image of God? This shows that the plural Elohim was known to convey a singular meaning despite its plural form. 1. Others who deem themselves more acute, but are doubly infatuated, say that God spoke of himself in the plural number, according to the custom of princes. (s) God commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures: but of man he says, Let us make signifying that God takes counsel with his wisdom and virtue purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation. It was the essential feature that the trial should be simply a question of God's authority in prohibition, not one of grave moral evil. On the first the darkness on the face of the earth is removed; on the fourth that on the face of the sky. And as we suggested last Thursday night, it is possible that He'll be the only handicapped person in there. Meaning of Genesis 1:26. Genesis chapter 1. Hence man was wise in his mind, holy in his heart, and righteous in his actions. How possibly have that discrimination which decides morally between what is good and what is evil? close of the Old Testament: but they are spoken by God the Father Could He have made them otherwise consistently with His own character? There is next the associated fact of an utter desolation which befell not the heavens, but the earth. God's image upon man consists in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10. Scripture is plain and profoundly true: "And Jehovah-Elohim said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore Jehovah- Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground whence he was taken. So let there be the "light holders" in the heavensto divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years (Gen 1:14): And so our time is calculated by the sun and the moon, and it is generally thought that the Earth's rotation around the sun was a three hundred and sixty-day year. Darius, "I make a decree" Ezra 5:8. But there is no word coupling the introductory statement of verse 1 with what follows. Man feels that this is exactly what is appropriate to God. If mans physical being is in the image of God we would immediately wonder what, if any organs, God possesses. Chapter Overview: The holy scripture, being designed to maintain and improve natural religion, to repair the decays of it. There is not a speech nor a language" (Psa 19:1-3). The world has been established now. In short, if the word had not been here, it might have been supposed that the writer meant us to conclude that the original condition of the earth was the shapeless mass of confusion which verse 2 describes with such terse and graphic brevity. "They knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." Do you not understand that this was the very essence of the trial? The earth is only a very small part of Gods creation, but the creation story in the Bible is concerned mainly with the earth and mentions other features only in relation to the earth.The Genesis account is concerned with showing that God made everything out of nothing, that he worked from the formless to the formed, from the simple to the complex. Ed. As they stand, they are in exact harmony. Without loss, these two things could not be transposed. This apparently means that a relationship of close fellowship can exist between God and man that is unlike the relationship of God with the rest of his creation. . 9-54, for a discussion of the subject.]. Mankind was the only form of life created "after our likeness" and Exciting days, we'll have a lot of things to share with you soon, as soon as we get all of our information packets put together. The sin began with utter disrespect to a father. But it is the word of God, and nothing can be more suitable to God, gracious to man, or just to the enemy. So we find what shows the folly of this yet more in what follows: "And they that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Jehovah shut him in." 2. i Ibid. God and man share a likeness that is not shared by other creatures. It is the issue of that probationary trial which was proposed there. Chapter 12:1-21:34 Abraham, the father of all believers (Romans 4) a. On the other hand, man has potential and it is unlimited in amount and variety. The principles of God's nature are immutable. It cannot be believed that God discussed the creation with the angels and included them as participants in His decision to create man. Never been there before, yet somehow, God has built into this little bird that kind of instinct; and that's a bird brain. That either matter existed crude or God created it in disorder has not, I believe, the smallest foundation in the word of God. We don't know. Consequently the attempt of man's mind by what is now to judge of what was then always ends in the merest confusion and total failure. 1:24 ) so as to keep them in awe, and keep them off from He is to be related to the Eternal Being himself. The preservation of the creatures which required the ark. The presumption is that there was a reasonable consistency of thought in his mind during one effort of composition. Not only giving me the capacity of choice, He also respects the choice that I make. 70. fol. God set down the goal of human life at the very beginning, when He created mankind in the Garden of Eden. Unfortunately, this has not been made clear enough. But, as it is, scripture means nothing of the sort. So all of the animals at that point lived off of the grasses and vegetation. It is all well, and a desirable service of love, if a Christian can happily and with God-given wisdom meet the difficulties of others; but hold you the truth yourselves. But I often wonder why God made such weird-looking fish, in such variety, and then the fabulous colors! In the post-diluvian earth God establishes principles which hold their course throughout the whole scene till Jesus came, or rather till He not only come and affirm by His own power and personal reign all the ways in which God has been testing and trying man, but deliver up the kingdom to the Father, that God may be all in all, when He shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. A mirror can be in a sense a light holder, such as is the moon. God is holy, just, wise, good, and perfect; so must the soul be that sprang from him: there could be in it nothing impure, unjust, ignorant, evil, low, base, mean, or vile. . am that I am, ( Exodus 3:14 ) and he Observe another thing too. It is the same principle inGenesis 4:1-26; Genesis 4:1-26, which we find more explicitly stated in Romans 2:1-29, where God shows His sure judgment of evil on the one hand, and His approval of that which is good, holy, and true on the other. Chapter 13 Lot's choice and Abram's part. 1. Science may investigate the physical world and suggest how something happened, but it cannot say who made it happen. The more expensive edition published in 2013 The New Matthew Henry Commentary: Complete and Unabridged is the full version. But then, pretty soon, as the glue dries completely, it falls off and it has propagated itself. Thus God declares Himself in every word He utters. And this pattern of six and one, will be established by God throughout the history of His people, and interwoven into their whole culture.So we find everything is beautiful. Adam on the very first day of his life, even before Eve was formed, gave the animals their names, and God Himself sanctioned what their head uttered. Some have found a difficulty (which I simply touch on in passing) from the conjunction with which verse 2 commences. Not only is the method the most worthy, but the truth with which the book opens is one that nobody ever did really discover before it was revealed. "Male and female" has to do in itself with the constitution of the creature, nothing whatever necessarily with moral relationship. Our . The mere. Yet in Genesis 1:29, God states that human beings are only permitted a plant-based diet. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 30:1 (March 1987):67, 66. So with Cain here "and if thou doest not well;" and such was the fact. Thus in relation to His place as creator God preserved two of every sort; in relation to His own moral government He would have seven taken into the ark seven animals of each clean sort; of the unclean just enough would be there to preserve what He had made. The real and only force of the "and" is another fact; not at all as if it implied that the first and second verses spoke of the same time, any more than they decide the question of the length of the interval. Fifth, it is in keeping, as far as it goes, with the facts of botany, zoology, and ethnology. This is the highest honor with which he has dignified us; to a due regard for which, Moses, by this mode of speaking would excite our minds. Now, the word light here is "meor". The victims of sin knew shame, now fear. And in the manner in which creation is here presented what unspeakable grandeur! Its insertion forbids the thought, and to speak plainly, convicts those who so understand it either of ignorance, or at the least of inattention. New King James Version. So it is here. And God said, Let us make man It is evident that God intends to impress the mind of man with a sense of something extraordinary in the formation of his body and soul, when he introduces the account of his creation thus; Let US make man. There were no carnivorous animals in the beginning. However this is merely by the way, for it is evidently a matter of no great importance in itself, save that we should hold the entire account of Paradise to be historical in the strictest and fullest sense. - Sea and air are filled with living creatures; and the word of God now goes forth to the earth, to produce living beings after their kind. They give you notions ideas; they can furnish nothing better, and very often nothing worse. (Colossians 3:10, and Ephesians 4:23.) Here he gave them, 1. Infidelity takes increasingly an apostate form, and those that used to revere both Old Testament and New are abandoning the truth of God for the dreamy but mischievous romances of so-called modern science. As it is, God reserves the striking detail for the scene of moral relationship. He has said enough; but any one who will take the trouble to refer to Jude in connection with this chapter will gather more than appears on the surface. We also know that it was customary with the Hebrews to repeat the same thing in different words. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. [Note: Mathews, p. 2. The creation of man does not take place through a word addressed by God to the earth, but as the result of the divine decree, "We will make man in Our image, after our likeness," which proclaims at the very outset the distinction and pre-eminence of man above all the other creatures of the earth. (87) I answer, is not in the original, but is taken from the French translation. Moral relationship? I grant that in an unfallen condition there was another state of things. Its basic design is to divide the creation story into two groups of three days each. The soul is a spirit, an intelligent immortal spirit, an influencing active spirit, herein resembling God, the Father of Spirits, and the soul of the world. Now, not only may it be the simple fact that Elohim alone was used, but, further, on account of it, the historian would not introduce here the name of special relationship which the enemy was above all anxious to have if possible forgotten, and which the woman in fact did soon forget when she allowed one to work on her mind whose first aim was to sow distrust of God. "In our image, after our likeness." i., p. 52, c. 3. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. On the contrary, supposing there was but one writer of the book of Genesis, as I am persuaded is the truth of the case, it would not have borne the stamp of a divine communication if he had used either the name of Jehovah-Elohim in 1-2: 3, or the name of "Elohim" only in Genesis 2:4-25. See Pooles Synopsis. 510. What was the ground of God's delays in the previous time? Christians, therefore, properly contend, from this testimony, that there exists a plurality of Persons in the Godhead. our I can choose what I want. It is the old familiar story, man tried and found wanting as always. Yet his government of himself by the freedom of his will has in it more of God's image than his government of the creatures. As we might have expected, the Genesis account of creation is from the viewpoint of the ordinary person. 3. JANUARY 11- DAILY READING THROUGH THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- GENESIS 24:52-26:16; MATTHEW 8:18-34; PSALM 10:1-15; PROVERBS 3:7-8 Commentary written and read by Pastor David K. MacAdam. We were . And God said, let us make man in our image, after our. There was to be a mind in him, a spirit capable of the knowledge of God with the absence of all evil. I confess human my own ignorance; but not that there is a single instance where God has not employed the terms in all respects the best. Were even the word of God silent on this subject, we could not infer less from the lights held out to us by reason and common sense. God certainly might here command by his bare word what he wished to be done: but he chose to give this tribute to the excellency of man, that he would, in a manner, enter into consultation concerning his creation. Some . 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. There is not the slightest necessity for it. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth." Only a plurality of persons can justify the phrase. I only speak of what is good for man out of Paradise, and how God meets with and ministers to his state in His infinite grace. 145.] And God said, Let us make man in our image, and 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. God designed hereby to put an honour upon man, that he might find himself the more strongly obliged to bring honour to his Maker. I believe that they are what are called, or used to be called in ancient times at any rate, the Phasis and the Aras or Araxes. And what followed after it? 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. Departed from God, they hid themselves, and He had but to utter those solemn and searching words to Adam, "Where art thou?" 14-16.] But I have the capacity to love.So man was made in the image of God and in the likeness of God. No, it was the simple question whether God was really Jehovah-Elohim, whether He was a moral governor or not, whether man was to be independent of God or not. of man, as Moses Gerundensis, and other Jewish writers 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. the angels, as the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, and others, who 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. the cause of causes said to "`jod', he, But this made the want so much the more evident, of which Jehovah-Elohim takes notice, of a partner for Adam's affections and life, one that might be before him, as it is said: "And Jehovah-Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam.'' Scripture is divine from first to last. Scripture describes it, and mentions two rivers which unquestionably exist at the present day. In looking into the meaning of these verses we are attempting to discover the nature of man. Though the twins may have come from the same cell, divided and thus, they have the same chromosome content and gene content as each other, yet the variations that develop, I just am amazed at creation. It outlines how he brought the universe through various stages till his creative activity reached its climax in Adam and Eve. God forbid that by indulging the body, and the desires of it, we . No other explanation is left, therefore, than to regard it as pluralis majestatis, - an interpretation which comprehends in its deepest and most intensive form (God speaking of Himself and with Himself in the plural number, not reverentiae causa, but with reference to the fullness of the divine powers and essences which He possesses) the truth that lies at the foundation of the trinitarian view, viz., that the potencies concentrated in the absolute Divine Being are something more than powers and attributes of God; that they are hypostases, which in the further course of the revelation of God in His kingdom appeared with more and more distinctness as persons of the Divine Being. By no means. "Image" is a word taken from sensible things, and denotes likeness in outward form, while the material may be different. Now we have the basic life forms, the plant life forms, on the third day. "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Hi, this is Pastor Ken. 56. "They were both naked the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." Paul says that we are transformed into the image of God by the gospel. The beautiful type of creation belonging to Christ is thus admirably preserved. That man was made male and female, and blessed with the blessing of fruitfulness and increase. These distinguish humans from the animals, which have no God-consciousness even though they have conscious life (cf. Whereas Seth is son of Adam according to his image (Gen 5:3), the . He had not before given his wife this her full and proper name. This he acquired by the fall. At first it sounds strange that a day of human self-exaltation should be equally characterised by as strong a desire to deny the special breath of God for his soul, and degrade him to the pedigree of an ape! "And if thou doest not well," it is said, "sin lieth at the door." Yet, the NIV Study Bible also writes in its commentary on Genesis 1:26, Us . But this is not the meaning of verses 1 and 2. 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