What a climax it was when God assembled some of the elements of the earth to form his first human son, whom he named Adam! (see also Luke 3:38). The historical account tells us that the Creator of the globe and life on it put the man he had made in a garden-like area "to cultivate it and to take care of it." (Genesis 2:15) At that time the Creator may still have been producing new animal kinds. The Bible says:
"God was forming from the ground every wild beast of the field and every flying creature of the heavens, and he began bringing them to the man to see what he would call each one; and whatever the man would call it, each living soul, that was its name." (Genesis 2:19)
The Bible in no way suggests that the first man, Adam, was merely a mythical figure. On the contrary, he was a real person- a thinking, feeling human- who could find joy working in that Paradise home. Every day, he learned more about what his Creator had made and what that One was like- his qualities, his personality.
Then, after an unspecified period, God created the first woman, to be Adam's wife. Further God added greater purpose to their lives with the meaningful assignment: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth." (Genesis 1:27,28)
Nothing can change this declared purpose of the Creator, namely, that the whole earth should be turned into a paradise filled with happy humans living at peace with one another and with the animals.
To be continued.....
Brien
"God was forming from the ground every wild beast of the field and every flying creature of the heavens, and he began bringing them to the man to see what he would call each one; and whatever the man would call it, each living soul, that was its name." (Genesis 2:19)
The Bible in no way suggests that the first man, Adam, was merely a mythical figure. On the contrary, he was a real person- a thinking, feeling human- who could find joy working in that Paradise home. Every day, he learned more about what his Creator had made and what that One was like- his qualities, his personality.
Then, after an unspecified period, God created the first woman, to be Adam's wife. Further God added greater purpose to their lives with the meaningful assignment: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth." (Genesis 1:27,28)
Nothing can change this declared purpose of the Creator, namely, that the whole earth should be turned into a paradise filled with happy humans living at peace with one another and with the animals.
To be continued.....
Brien
