The purpose of the Genesis account of creation was not to teach scientific theories, but to give a short simple account of the beginning of things in language that people of any age would understand.Īs with the rest of the Bible, the book of Genesis was written in the everyday language of the people of the time. If its language were that of modern science, people in former ages would not have understood it, and people in future ages would find it out of date. It is not concerned with the sort of investigation that modern science is concerned with. The Bible was never intended to be a scientific textbook. The Bible demonstrates this order of importance from the outset by fitting the story of creation into a mere week, into the opening page of a 1,000-page Bible. The story of creation is but an introduction to the story of God’s dealings with the human race. Human beings are its main concern, for they alone are made in God’s image. Modern science has revealed so much about the wonders and the size of the physical universe that human beings may seem almost to be nothing. All the skill, wisdom, and power of men and angels could not produce a single grain of wheat: A serious and reflecting mind can see the grandeur of God, not only in the immense cedars on Lebanon, but also in the endlessly varied forests that appear through the microscope in the mould of cheese, stale paste, &c., &c. Who can account for, or comprehend, the structure of a single tree or plant? The roots, the stem, the woody fibres, the bark, the rind, the air-vessels, the sap-vessels, the leaves, the flowers, and the fruits, are so many mysteries. Now as God delights to manifest himself in the little as well as in the great, he has shown his consummate wisdom in every part of the vegetable creation. Fruit-tree is not to be understood here in the restricted sense in which the term is used among us it signifies all trees, not only those which bear fruit, which may be applied to the use of men and cattle, but also those which had the power of propagating themselves by seeds, &c. Let the earth bring forth grass - herb - fruit-tree, c.] In these general expressions all kinds of vegetable productions are included. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.Verse Genesis 1:11. 31 adAnd God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. 30 And acto every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God said to them, aa“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “ Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. And ylet them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”Ģ8 And God blessed them. ▼The Hebrew word for man ( adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam in our image, xafter our likeness.
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