Genesis 1:1-5
The Creation of Chaos and Light... [ Continue Reading ]
The Creation of Chaos and Light... [ Continue Reading ]
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. In the beginning, Cf John 1:1, that is, when time first began, when time was first measured; for as long as God alone existed, there was no time. God created, He brought forth out of nothing, He brought into being something that had not been in... [ Continue Reading ]
And the earth was without form and void. The material substance of which the earth consists was in a state of chaos, the various elements being intermingled in utter disorder. AND DARKNESS WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. There was, as yet, no elemental light; the great sea of the chaotic materials wa... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. God spoke; the almighty Word of God is here introduced, the second person of the Godhead, John 1:3. The creation of the world is a work of the Triune God. By the word of His power He created light, elemental light, brought it into being in the m... [ Continue Reading ]
And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. The light was good, it was a perfect creature of God's almighty power; and so God separated between the light and the darkness, so that they were no longer in a chaotic state.... [ Continue Reading ]
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Time had begun for the earth, and therefore the Lord made this rule for the division of light and darkness, as they follow each other in regular order, and did so even before the creation of the light-bodies. He Himself defined the unit... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. God's almighty word continued to create on the second day. He caused a firm extension, or expansion, to be fixed in the midst of the waters, in the chaos where liquid and vapor were inter... [ Continue Reading ]
The Creation of the Firmament... [ Continue Reading ]
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. Although there is no concrete, visible vault of the sky, yet there is an invisible dividing-wall above the earth, which under ordinary conditions holds bac... [ Continue Reading ]
and God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. God Himself applied the name heaven, or heavens, to the invisible dividing-wall which separates the waters below from the waters above. Thus the work of the second day was accomplished.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CREATION OF THE DRY LAND, HERBS, AND TREES... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. God here finished His creative work on inanimate matter, when His almighty command bade the waters from below the heavens, below the firmament which He had constructed, be g... [ Continue Reading ]
And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas. And God saw that it was good. There had been no chemical compound, but a mere mixture of solid and liquid particles in the mass composing chaos. The division took place at God's almighty command, and the dry... [ Continue Reading ]
and God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth. And it was so. The dry land having emerged from the waters, it was now possible, by God's command, for the earth to be clothed with vegeta... [ Continue Reading ]
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind. And God saw that it was good. The mature plants were thus brought into being by the word of God's power, fully able to reproduce their kind and species by... [ Continue Reading ]
And the evening and the morning were the third day.... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. The Creator brought into being light bodies of the sky, assigning to them a threefold function: to show the distinction between day and... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CREATION OF SUN, MOON, AND STARS... [ Continue Reading ]
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth. And it was so. That is the third function of the heavenly light-bodies, to send forth the light, either their own or that reflected by them, to be light-bearers for the earth. No sooner had God spoken than it was... [ Continue Reading ]
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. Although the names are not expressly mentioned, it is obvious that the greater light is the sun, which, by its light and power, governs the day, has the most profound inf... [ Continue Reading ]
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,... [ Continue Reading ]
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. God's almighty, creative act is again emphasized; for He gave, He put the light-bodies in their proper place, the functions of which are given in the order in which they usually impr... [ Continue Reading ]
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. At God's almighty word the waters were to swarm a swarm of living beings, of marine animals, and also of winged animals, characterized by the... [ Continue Reading ]
The Creation of Marine Animals and Birds... [ Continue Reading ]
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind. And God saw that it was good. Not only the fishes were made by God to inhabit the seas, but He also created long and huge whales, cr... [ Continue Reading ]
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. As animate beings both the marine animals and those that inhabit the air received a special blessing of the Lord, not in a mere friendly and fatherly greeting, but in the con... [ Continue Reading ]
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Creation of the Land Animals... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind. And it was so. The seas and the air having been filled with living beings, the earth now received the command to bring forth, to permit to go forth, living b... [ Continue Reading ]
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. And God saw that it was good. The making of these animals is represented as having received the special attention of the Lord in forming the game animals of the... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Man is the crown of creation; the Triune God held a... [ Continue Reading ]
The Creation and Blessing of Man... [ Continue Reading ]
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created He them. God made an impression of His own essence upon the soul of man, making his intellect keen for the knowledge of Himself, and his will eager to perform only that which was good and righteous. As m... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Thus was the blessing of the Lord given to man and the powe... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Having created man, the human race, and provided for their propagation, God also provides the necessa... [ Continue Reading ]
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. That was the food which the Lord had provided and intended for animals of every description, whether mammals or... [ Continue Reading ]
And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. This is God's own opinion and verdict of the entire work of creation as it was before Him at the end of the sixth day: "Good exceedingly. " There was not a single mistake, not... [ Continue Reading ]