Playing Chess With the Devil. Making Sense of the Most Popular Book In the World. Genesis 1. The Creation. Lesson 1

the second three days, he has us contemplate who or what is dominating or ruling those spheres he created.  It is sort of a topical outline to help us think about what he has done in what He has made.

If this is true, then the endless arguments about whether the six creation days were six literal 24 hour days or whether they were ages of time misses the point entirely! If the Framework Hypothesis is correct, Genesis 1 has little, if anything, to do with time or length of days.Then what IS the point? It would be that God made three major parts that dominate His interest – space with its heavenly, light-giving bodies, the seas and the atmosphere about earth with the creatures who dwell there, and the land and vegetation with the animals and the most excellent creature of all that reflects His magnificent image, man. It is interesting to note that even though the earth is a mere drop in the ocean of creation, it is the most detailed in its creation description. Most of the account of the creation focuses on the earth and the creation that dwells there. Even more detailed and pin-pointed – like a microscope moving in for a closer look – however, is the man and woman that God created, two molecule specks on the drop in the ocean of creation. Of all the creation account, the man and the woman are not only the most genius of God’s creation, they and their generations are the centerpiece of his interest. This is a foreshadowing of the redemption that is coming for Adam and Eve and their generations as the narrative narrows down like a funnel from the endless breadth of the universe and hones in on the smallest entity that he made in His own image. So Genesis 1may

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