Genesis 2:5-9 Theological terraforming and the Genesis worldview.

Our understanding of Scriptures is received by our different characters with different views and necessarily conveyed in human words and imagery.

Out of nothing, using nothing, from nothing, simply by God’s Word speaking ‘Into Being’ everything came into being.
Theology should simply be understood to be the ‘study of the Theos,’ The God Who gives a theological illumination in chapter 1 of Genesis.
Even when we do not know how God made everything, it is not as such something to know, but something we have to accept and believe.

In the end, people shall come to understand that “Its all up to God. God’s will be done.” People also shall come to see that everything is connected and that by following God’s advice, given in the many assembled books, man shall be able to make the best of his life, capable for the challenges of our lives in corporately challenging times and circumstances.

Underneath you may find Stephen Thompson’s interpretation of Genesis 2. He looks at it and at Tate Modern and the Clore Gallery and the multitudes of sketches and watercolours by the English Romantic landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, who created expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.

For him we are invited in this Genesis 2:5-9 passage into a personal viewing of God’s creative studios at the start of time as we might think of it, now having the curtains and canvas being pulled back and we get to see something of what is going on, behind the dashboard as it were.

He looks at the introduction of the El or the Mighty – high-ranking god, YHWH or Jehovah and compaes Him with the heathen’s el (or god).

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To remember:

• we can only know the One who was called ‘El’ by men if the real God chooses to reveal their Reality. And so YHWH does!
• God = explicit first cause
• ground described metaphorically = having a face which God has tended with gentle moisture >God takes dust of the ground + forms an animate being with a face that is really sensitive + responsive +> first conception: ‘God formed… God breathed… > the man became
• scope for an ongoing relationship with God as equals in nature in some vital respects.
• God = only One capable of making a universe or matter with capacity to form life
• God’s world = placed under our authority + control > our delicate stewardship, which must consider whether this plant is to be made a crop or a weed, and whether this bush will live here or there or not at all.
• God’s creation = designed to point to a quality of life which reaches beyond our physical existence for a few short decades, + a quality of wisdom which is grounded in simple knowledge but then goes beyond what we might find out for ourselves.

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On the 17th of January 2021 the article we reblogged was not anymore to be connected. Well are the following articles there to be read where he a.o. mentions that God is a hard worker and that it is how the universe got to be here.

God is an abundantly creative worker: that’s how the world with all its variety (including you and me) came to be here.

For him, it is also clear that Jehovah God doesn’t want us to ‘’die’’, but remarks:

That, of course, is what did happen when the first people trespassed across this known boundary. They sinned to their own eternal harm. We break God’s commandments and find that we ourselves are broken on them. If we break them, it is even more the case that they break us.

It is also by the bond of people:

The marriage of one man to one woman is God’s invention, and like the rest of His creation it is ‘good’. Also, like the rest of the created order, it has been affected by the fall. Sin spoils marriages and ultimately blasts people apart. But if we will keep looking to the One who gave us the gift of marriage, and if we trust in His resources, we can nevertheless know a wonderful harmony and intimacy.

• Daily Bible thoughts 1578: Wednesday 3rd January 2018: Genesis 2:1-7: Knowing God personally.
• Daily Bible thoughts 1579: Thursday 4th January 2018: Genesis 2:8-14: Trees and rivers.
• Daily Bible thoughts 1580: Friday 5th January 2018: Genesis 2:15: God is a worker.
• Daily Bible thoughts 1581: Monday 8th January 2017: Genesis 2:16: Killjoy God?  
• Daily Bible thoughts 1582: Tuesday 9th January 2018: Genesis 2:18-20: Delegation.
• Daily Bible thoughts 1583: Wednesday 10th January 2018: Genesis 2:20b-25: ‘This is it!’

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Preceding

Bereshith 1-2 The Creation of the World – The Seven Days

Bereshith 2 Man and Woman placed in a Royal Garden

Starting from a point in time when two elements existed

Account of origin of man, sin and death

Possible problems with two Accounts of the beginning of human race

The figure of Adam

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Find also to read

1. Stories of the beginnings, and one Main book composed of four major sections
2. Blackness, nothingness, something, void
3. “Before” and “after” the Big Bang
4. A Book to trust #4 Cause of Being and Truth
5. Nothingness
6. Accommodation of the Void
7. Something from nothing
8. 3rd question: Does there exist a Divine Creator
9. Why think there’s a God? (1): Something from Nothing
10. About the Cosmological argument for proving that there is a Creative Deity
11. Consciously or unconsciously forming a world-view and choosing to believe or not to believe in God
12. When no man can say with absolute certainty that God does or does not exist
13. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods – Nothing, none, something or more present
14. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
15. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
16. From nothingness, except an eternal Being, the Ruach brought into being
17. Different principle about the origin and beginning of everything
18. From nothingness and choices being made
19. From nothingness to a growing group of followers of Jeshua 4 Trusting the Right One
20. Scattered, broken, thwarted reflection of God
21. Different principle about the origin and beginning of everything
22. Science, belief, denial and visibility 2

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8. Creation or Evolution
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Genesis 2:5-9 (ESV) When nobush of the field^[a]was yet in the land^[b]and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for theLordGod had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no manto work the ground,⁶and a mist^[c]was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—⁷then theLordGod formed the man ofdust from the ground andbreathed into hisnostrils the breath of life, andthe man became a living creature.⁸And theLordGod planted agarden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom…

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Possible problems with two Accounts of the beginning of human race

Study of geology over some centuries now has shown evidence of a succession of different eras represented by layers of rock giving evidence of the development of the earth over millions of years.

Account of origin of man, sin and death

Religion and science may impinge on each other, and for this reason ‘creation’ is for some believers an emotive, not to say disturbing, subject. For some, Darwin and evolution have discredited Genesis and over the last century in the English-speaking world believers unwilling to ignore the facts of geology have had the problem of offering some explanation of what the Bible teaches on this subject. The problem has been aggravated in some circles by an unwritten taboo on open discussion of the subject. The truth of the Bible, it has been said, can be accepted without getting bogged down in current scientific opinions. In our review of the Biblical story we look in this article at the second account of the beginning of everything.

Starting from a point in time when two elements existed

Looking at traditional general rendering and some older Jewish rendering of the possible mistranslation of the first verses of the Book of Genesis and foundation concept of religious thinking. Of course, in our age, this subject is commonly tied up with scientific cosmogony, of how things did in fact originate, and here the questions cease to be religious since, first, very few believers are qualified to have an opinion on the latest scientific ideas of how the universe and life on earth began, and, secondly, no one can be sure that scientific conclusions will not change in the future.

Bereshith 2 Man and Woman placed in a Royal Garden

In the second chapter of the Bereshith light is shed on the day that יהוה Elohim made earth and heavens and created a beautiful Royal Garden where man, made in the image of God, could live in peace, with the animals, to which he receives rulership (not ownership over the earth).

Bereshith 1-2 The Creation of the World – The Seven Days

The Bible opens with the story of the beginning of everything, presenting the six periods of development (six days of creation) and the final period of establishment or rest.

Terugblikkend op de eerste mens en eerste gebeurtenissen 1 Ontstaan en plaatsing eerste mens

Wij kijken naar een hoogtepunt in de wereldliteratuur waarin de ontstaansgeschiedenis van ons hele gestel wordt verteld en blootgelegd waarom er zo veel moeilijkheden in onze wereld zijn. In dit eerste deel kijken wij naar de onbekommerde vredige wereld waarin de eerste mens werd geplaatst.