I have no problem believing that there was an Adam and an Eve. I just don’t believe that the Earth was created in 7 days 6000 years ago, and I don’t believe things happened exactly as they said - a snake tempted the first woman and the first man to eat an apple. (and I don’t have to believe this)
I don’t see why a select few of you are having such a hard time understanding that.
Its not in the understanding of or even in the how someone else’s position on scripture is taken in - what one believes or doesn’t believe. I made that mistake along time ago. You can show scripture from many directions and give information to back it - and the scholars and saints who wrote about it and interpreted it with xx many commentaries. The scripture has to be taken internally taken ((much like the digestion) spiritually - in the soul) before it can be externalized (professing by word of mouth). What is it in scripture that Christ wants us to become aware of or to see (Genesis 21:19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.)- and what part of scripture does he wants others to learn and also hear (with our senses - Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.).
What is the most important message about Genesis 1 & 2? What I found, was the fact that we are made in the image and likeness of God - so cool, that God said and life was created, a double - so cool, the next understanding was in the fact that man and woman were equal in their responsibilities in the garden ( 28 God blessed them and said to them…), and that God provided a means for both man and woman to be physical provided for, (necessities of life) “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.” Everything had enough to be satisfied…so very cool and that they both walked with God - in wisdom and understanding. Man was made perfect, and was crowned (Psalms 8:5 "You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.), then on the seven day - God blessed the seventh day and rested, the Shabbat When Jesus resurrected - Sunday, he returned back to the Father (John 17:11 "I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world,
and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. .) - Sunday, being the 1st day of creation - Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. So out of the chaos or the desert, came a great light ( Isaiah 9:2 - and that light was the knowledge of God, God’s word - Christ. see John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” - and, “7 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”)
"Jeshimon, derived from jasham, “to be desolate”. It was looked upon as a place without water, thus Isaiah 43:19: “Behold I shall set up streams in the desert [jeshimon]”
Parts of the waste region about the Dead Sea are called the jeshimon; and to the north-east of the same sea there is a place called Beth-Jeshimoth (cf. Numbers 33:49), where the Israelites are said to have encamped at the end of the wanderings. These are the principal words used for desert in the Bible. There are, however, others less frequently used, only one or two of which can be mentioned here: such as tohu, used in
Genesis 1:2: “the earth was void”. In Deuteronomy 32:10, it is used in parallelism with midbar, and in Psalm 107:40 it refers to the desert directly. Such also is çiyyah, which means, literally, dryness, but refers at times to the desert: so, 'areç çiyyah, “a land of drought”, or “a desert” (Hosea 2:5).
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The numbering of the days in Genesis tells us the different order of creation and how he divides them, like woman who came from the rib of man. Day one divides the darkness from light; day two, the waters from the skies; and day three, the sea from the land…etc.
edit So - there are other thoughts to all of this, creatio ex nihilo, meaning “creation out of nothing” and that man’s days are numbered, Job 14:5 “Man’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.”
Many blessings to you!
Mary
