Day 1: The Beginning
Genesis 1:1-31, 2:1-3, NIV
So I'm not the type of person who will delve into little details like realizing that the Spirit of God was present at the beginning of the world like was pointed out a few church services ago, but then again, it may be because I've just read the beginning story in Genesis too much. I don't suppose that's a good thing.
I think, though, that it's weird-cool (amazing's the word, I guess) that God could separate light from darkness. That's just...I don't know. Like, how can you do that? ...Yeah. It's just...I don't know.
And the skies are supposedly water. Separating water from water.
Gathering water into one place so land appears seems pretty reasonable...
And the vegetation bit. Hey...it isn't wrong to mess around with the plants so it turns out that they no longer bear fruit of their own kind, is it? What with splicing and grafting and creating hybrids...and the same with animals, too...
Again, a few Sundays back, the pastor pointed out that it says, almost rather offhandedly, "He also made the stars." Which is, he said, the biggest understatement ever. It's like, by the way, He also made the stars. But there are - you know what? I don't know how many stars there are out there. I'm not sure I could wrap my mind around the number. And our sun is apparently not even that big a star.
Birds and fishes, and all the other animals...mooquackgobblehonkroarpeepsquawkscreechneighoink...
Yeah, I'll be serious now. Sorry.
"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.." Is that supposed to be God talking to, well, his Son or the Trinity (which still confuses me lotsa), or the angels? I'd prefer to think the angels, but that doesn't make sense. I don't think the angels were actually made in His image like that. Where did I read that they were beings of light and fire or something? Not the Bible, I don't think.
It doesn't say in the creation that the animals were given to man for food. They had the green plants for food. Both man and animal.
And what it doesn't say in the creation story is - whatever happened to the rest of the world outside of Eden? If there was much of a world outside of Eden, that is.
And...that's it. Yeah...
So I'm not the type of person who will delve into little details like realizing that the Spirit of God was present at the beginning of the world like was pointed out a few church services ago, but then again, it may be because I've just read the beginning story in Genesis too much. I don't suppose that's a good thing.
I think, though, that it's weird-cool (amazing's the word, I guess) that God could separate light from darkness. That's just...I don't know. Like, how can you do that? ...Yeah. It's just...I don't know.
And the skies are supposedly water. Separating water from water.
Gathering water into one place so land appears seems pretty reasonable...
And the vegetation bit. Hey...it isn't wrong to mess around with the plants so it turns out that they no longer bear fruit of their own kind, is it? What with splicing and grafting and creating hybrids...and the same with animals, too...
Again, a few Sundays back, the pastor pointed out that it says, almost rather offhandedly, "He also made the stars." Which is, he said, the biggest understatement ever. It's like, by the way, He also made the stars. But there are - you know what? I don't know how many stars there are out there. I'm not sure I could wrap my mind around the number. And our sun is apparently not even that big a star.
Birds and fishes, and all the other animals...mooquackgobblehonkroarpeepsquawkscreechneighoink...
Yeah, I'll be serious now. Sorry.
"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.." Is that supposed to be God talking to, well, his Son or the Trinity (which still confuses me lotsa), or the angels? I'd prefer to think the angels, but that doesn't make sense. I don't think the angels were actually made in His image like that. Where did I read that they were beings of light and fire or something? Not the Bible, I don't think.
It doesn't say in the creation that the animals were given to man for food. They had the green plants for food. Both man and animal.
And what it doesn't say in the creation story is - whatever happened to the rest of the world outside of Eden? If there was much of a world outside of Eden, that is.
And...that's it. Yeah...
posted by k.a.m.u.r.i. at
7:57 p.m.
2 Comments:
You know, what really got me in that passage was verse 27 - "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." With the whole thing where people are starving themselves to fit into the world's standard of beauty, and all the corupt crapp that goes on, the fact that we are created in GOD'S image is so amazing.
For me, it means that I have no right to scrutinize myself or others both physically and spiritually to find their flaws, because we're created in the image of a flawless being. Yes, our human falability means that we sin, but it also means that we have no right to put others down.
Okay, I'm done now.
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Ignis, at 10:15 a.m.
God said to someone that there are as many stars as grains of sand. God knows how many hairs are on my head. Wow. This is when I remember just how big God is.
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gabe, at 1:13 p.m.
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