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Bible Basics
For Smart People
Who Do Not Want To Be Dummies
About God and the Bible
(Parts I, II, III)
By J. George Cover
Lesson 5 - What About Creation? (Cont'd.) (Text Version)
Day One - Light, Day and Night.
Day Two - Made the firmament (sky). Separated waters above from those on earth.
Day Three - Dry land and Seas. Vegetation on earth. Grass, herbs, fruit trees, with seeds within.
Day Four - Lights in the heavens. Sun, moon, stars - for light, signs, seasons, days and years. and to divide the light from darkness.
Day Five - Sea creatures and winged fowl.
Day Six - Animals and Man. Living creatures after its kind, cattle, every thing that creeps, beasts of the earth.
Day Seven - "God rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 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" (Genesis 2:2-3).
No rain on the earth is reported until the time of the great flood in Noah's time, about 1650 years after God created Adam and Eve. If there was rain during that time, we are not told in the Bible. How was the earth watered?
"The Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb h of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground" (Genesis 2:5-6).
The Creation of Man
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7).
The Woman Made Out Of The Rib Of Man
"And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an helpmeet (a helpmate) for him" (Genesis 2:18).
"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."
"And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2:21-24).
A Home For The First Man And First Woman, Adam And Eve.
"And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
"And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
"And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
"The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
"And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
"And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.
"And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
"And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
"And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
"But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:8-17).
"Please tell me more."
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