Genesis 1:1 - 3:24
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness...
A few thoughts here:
First, the Bible says, "Let US make man in OUR own image, in OUR likeness...". What is up with that? Let "US" and in "OUR" image. The Bible is actually making reference to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We always think of God, the single being, creating the earth! And, second, it speaks of God creating man in His "image" and "likeness". To me this totally dispels the theory of evolution! The Bible does not say, Let us "evolve" man into Our image. It clearly states, "Let us MAKE man in Our image...".
Hey, why did God make man to begin with? He had the Angels. He had all the rest of creation. He could do anything with them that He wanted. What did he want, or need, man for? I believe that God wanted someone, that was like Him (in His image), with whom to fellowship, someone that would love Him and walk with Him by choice. I believe that God, the supreme being of all that is and all that ever will be, wanted to be loved, just as we want and NEED to be loved and fellowship with others. It is a very basic, but strong, need innate within us. We are created with the need TO BE LOVED and TO FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHERS (that is why God made Eve for Adam... remember, "It is not good for man to be alone..."). God wanted to be loved, He wanted to be loved by choice, not out of obligation or because we were created with that as our job. God wanted someone to choose to love Him and spend time with Him. He made man with a free will, free choice, the ability to accept or reject Him, to love Him, or to walk away from Him. This ability to choose, our free will, is first seen in Genesis 3:6, when Eve CHOSE to eat of the tree that God said not to touch. To me it is an awesome thought that God made man to have someone to walk with Him, to talk with Him, and to love Him! And, better than that, He gave us the ability, the freedom, to reject Him.
Genesis 3:21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
This is the first blood sacrifice in the Bible! God spilled the blood of an animal to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve, to cover their wrongdoing. This, to me, is a foreshadowing of what we see throughout the rest of the Bible... Blood sacrifice to cover sin. In the Old Testament animals were sacrificed on an altar for the forgiveness of sins. In the New Testament God sent Jesus to be the sacrifice for our sins.
We were created as perfect beings, no sin, no pain, just us and God. Until the fall...
It was a perfect relationship! God would walk in the garden in the eve of the day visiting with His creation, just God, Adam and Eve. Wow, what an opportunity to exist in the total presence of God! Even when God found them in the garden, hiding their nakedness, and they told him that they had sinned (like He didn't already know), He loved them and provided a covering for them.
Thank God that he doesn't handle things like I do. When I reject God He still loves me, He covers me, and continues to pursue me to bring me back to Himself. He wants me to be in that "Garden of Eden relationship" with Him.
Thank you Jesus for Your patience with me!
Thank you for Your love and Your covering!
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