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Pamphlet #6213 Genesis KC 4-3
Do you suppose that you look like yourself?
As you did before you were born in the flesh?
So let's go back just before God creates mankind.
To whom is He speaking?
He says, "Let us make man in our image", "after our likeness", to look just like us.
Now think hard.
Do you suppose that you look like yourself?
As you did before you were born in the flesh?
I'll bet you do!
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And He created them male and female!
Was this before "'eth ha Adam" and his wife Eve were formed?
Yes it was!
This was the sixth day.
The man we call Adam was formed on the eighth day and we haven't gotten there yet.
So hang in there!
However, you now know the answer
to a question that often puzzles ministers and even scholars,
"When Cain was sent forth into the land of Nod, it says
he took a wife.
Where in the world did she come from?"
The answer is simple, she was of the sixth day creation.
[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.
Did you catch the word "replenish" when you read verse 28?
I know I missed it for many years and my mind read "plenish".
To
replenish the earth is to populate it once
again,
for
it had been populated in the world that was.
Now that too makes sense!
Notice also, that God gave the sixth
day man dominion over the fish of the sea,
the fowl of the air, and
the entire wild kingdom.
And so they became hunters and fishers.
However, conspicuously absent from this account is any mention of farming and/or tilling the ground.
Why?
We will find out in a few lessons.
[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.
Is He good to us, or what?
[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.
And so, we learn from God's Word that mankind did not
evolve from organic slime pits,
nor
did one precious race evolve from the other.
Our Father created them all, male and female, and loves them all very, very much.
After all, they are His children.
However, in this "politically correct" environment in which we now find common sense turned "tohu va bohu", you can be sure that God fits the liberal definitions of "racist" and "sexist", that is if you can find a liberal who admits that God is not dead.
We will soon see God resting for a day (How long would that be anyway?).
Then
on the next day, the one following the seventh day,
which
would be the eighth day,
we
shall meet the great, great, great..... grandparents of Jesus Christ.
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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