Yet, that he often keeps his hand as if closed is to be imputed to our sins. the words spoken after the manner of kings, as Saadiah, using the 26-28 Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honour and a favour to him. It merely describes in a few graphic touches, that are strikingly true to nature, the last of those geologic changes which our globe has undergone. It was the essential feature that the trial should be simply a question of God's authority in prohibition, not one of grave moral evil. Believers may therefore hesitate to dismiss a scientific theory simply by saying, But I believe God did it, because the theory may have been the way God has done it. 26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over [ a]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He . some for another; and over all the wild beasts of the earth, In the beginning matter did not co-exist with God. He had not before given his wife this her full and proper name. So we find, now, the crowning act of God's creation. And, according to him, spiritual regeneration is nothing else than the restoration of the same image. Who was God talking to? Yes, Jehovah is in question. But He will still be bearing the marks of His cross, and may be the only malformed body in heaven.So, "God making man in His own image and after His own likeness" is speaking of that spiritual nature and those capacities of God: self-determination, love, those capacities that He has given to me.And God blessed them, and he 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 over the earth (Gen 1:28). The sons of God chose the daughters of men. Genesis 3:21) we are told, that "to Adam also and to his wife did Jehovah-Elohim make coats of skins and clothed them." [Note: Gorman Gray, The Age of the Universe: What Are the Biblical Limits?] The biblical text of Genesis 1:26 announce that God makes us in his image and likeness (Bryson, 2011). I am capable of loving, of giving and receiving love, and to know the meaningfulness of giving and receiving love, because I am created in the image of God and that's His chief emotional characteristic; is to love. "The image is found in the type of relationship that was designed to exist between male and female human beings, a relationship where the characteristics of each sex are valued and used to form a oneness in their identity and purpose. (Genesis 1:6-7, 9, 11, 14-15). 15 My frame was not hidden from you. We pray, Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11), but we do not expect God to work instantaneously and drop food from heaven on to our plates. And let 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.". The order here is from the lowest to the highest. In any case it was mercy to confine the curse certainly earned by Ham within the narrowest limits, instead of extending it to all his posterity. That is why, when God created man and He created the garden for man to dwell in, that He put in that Garden a tree of knowledge of good and evil and said to man, "Don't eat that". "And he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which Jehovah-Elohim had taken from man made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. What can be more beautiful in its season? 1. In the second place, a literal interpretation would leave us with all sorts of bizarre questions. Not only is the method the most worthy, but the truth with which the book opens is one that nobody ever did really discover before it was revealed. The image of God within them is what makes them human. As we might have expected, the Genesis account of creation is from the viewpoint of the ordinary person. God said, "Let us make man." When it is no question of these, creating, making, and forming may be freely used, as in Isaiah 45:18. For example, the Bible speaks of the four corners of the earth (Isaiah 11:12) and of the pillars, bases and cornerstone of the earth (Job 9:6; Job 38:4-6); but if people use those statements to deny that the earth is a globe, they misuse the Bible. This truly is some portion, though very small, of the image of God. I merely use these scriptural facts to shew what seems to me the truth that "sin" here does not refer to the specific offering for it, but rather to that which was proved by evil conduct. It accounts for the manifestation of light on the first day, and of the luminaries of heaven on the fourth, and traces the orderly steps of a majestic climax throughout the narrative. The image and likeness must necessarily be intellectual; his mind, his soul, must have been formed after the nature and perfections of his God. ); this subjection might have been accompanied by a change in the organization of the animals, though natural science, which is based upon the observation and combination of things empirically discovered, could neither demonstrate the fact nor explain the process. That man's creation was a more signal and immediate act of divine wisdom and power than that of the other creatures. In short, Christ has intervened, and this most weighty consequence is connected with it that, although everything manifests evil and ruin increasingly, God has triumphed in grace and in faith after the fall and before "the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." We have had their failure under law; we look for their stability under Messiah and the new covenant. No wonder you get tired at the end of the day.And thus, I know that God can see, but it doesn't follow that God has to have eyes to see. This is the prime key to the works of every ancient author, if we can only discover it. Genesis 1:26. and supply the defects of it, since the fall, lays down at first this principle of the unclouded light of nature: That this world was, in the beginning of time, created by a Being of infinite . Others proceed with a little more subtlety, who, though they do not imagine God to be corporeal, yet maintain that the image of God is in the body of man, because his admirable workmanship there shines brightly; but this opinion, as we shall see, is by no means consonant with Scripture. The story is recorded as if someone were describing creation, not from somewhere in outer space, but from his dwelling place on earth. Cain was born, and the fallen mother gave the name: but, oh, what a mistake! For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. , over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. No one would have done so naturally. In the New . See also Waltkes helpful discussion of image and likeness in Genesis, p. 65-66. The whole person is in Gods image. We should not have known anything of paradise from the first chapter. Centuries ago people thought that the sun moved round the earth, but when one scientist suggested that the earth moved round the sun, he was condemned for not believing the Bible. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the . Certainly this is not mere creation in view, but special dealings of a moral sort. And here in a secondary sense of the word is the propriety of the phrase "created" in verse 21; and we shall see it also when a new action comes before us in imparting not animal life but a rational soul. His affections were all regular, and he had no inordinate appetites or passions. For God is not now first beginning to consider what form he will give to man, and with what endowments it would be fitting to adorn him, nor is he pausing as over a work of difficulty: but, just as we have before observed, that the creation of the world was distributed over six days, for our sake, to the end that our minds might the more easily be retained in the meditation of Gods works: so now, for the purpose of commending to our attention the dignity of our nature, he, in taking counsel concerning the creation of man, testifies that he is about to undertake something great and wonderful. The Second man, not the first, is the object of promise. Life is not the matter out of which animals were formed; nor is it true that matter produces life. The insertion of the substantive verb, as has been remarked, expresses no doubt a condition past as compared with what follows, but pointedly not said to be contemporaneous with what preceded, as would have been implied in its omission; but what interval lay between, or why such a desolation ensued, is not stated. But it is well that their canine wickedness has been joined with a stupidity so great, that they betray their folly to children. The world, the universe has been created. In short, if the word had not been here, it might have been supposed that the writer meant us to conclude that the original condition of the earth was the shapeless mass of confusion which verse 2 describes with such terse and graphic brevity. Again, what value would it be for God to give me the freedom of choice but then not respect the choice? I only speak of what is good for man out of Paradise, and how God meets with and ministers to his state in His infinite grace. And rather than trying to figure out who wrote it, it's better to find out what it says. God after the counsel of His own will, in the triunity of the Godhead which we, in our feeble, finite minds cannot comprehend. The first and second verses make allusion to these well-known measures of time. the creation, and much less in the more noble part of it: nor are 3 And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. that says let us make, is Jehovah; I am the first, and I am the Now comes in the shadow of what God would do fully another day. This, too, agrees with the whole bearing of the first chapter, which deals in a large general way with genera and species, and not with individuals. The distinction drawn between (in the image of God created He him) and (as man and woman created He them) must not be overlooked. "Image" is a word taken from sensible things, and denotes likeness in outward form, while the material may be different. The truth affirmed by Moses remains in all its majesty and simplicity withal. We don't know. All evil is due to this as its spring; it begins with God as the object attacked or undermined. 2. The Fall obscured but did not obliterate the image of God in man. Our. Thanks be to God, One has come who is before Him in unfailing sweet savour, so that if sin be in the background, there cannot but be also what He introduces of His own free grace. I need not dwell on the sad history which we all know more or less. And Jehovah speaks to him thus "Why art thou wroth? Thus it is seen at once that, instead of these wonderful communications being merely earlier and later legends put together by a still more modern editor, who tried to make something complete by stringing together what did not aptly fit, on the contrary, it is the Spirit of God who gives us various sides of the truth, each falling under the title and style suitable to God, according to that which was in hand. God's image upon man consists in these three things:-- 1. And when the pinecone dries, it begins to pop open, and the little seed falls free. Conclusion: God desired that man would be like Him. "Cursed be Canaan" was of deep interest, especially to an Israelite, but in truth to anyone who values the revelation of God. See his Works, vol. Lipman. Do you not understand that this was the very essence of the trial? The union of attributes which constitute his spiritual nature is his character or likeness. God was now producing a spirit, and a spirit, too, formed after the perfections of his own nature. And I'll think, you marvelous little creature, you, you can fly! God created (cf. But along with this we find no haste to reveal: all is in season. In his nature and constitution, not those of his body (for God has not a body), but those of his soul. The phrase "image of God" is found four times in the OT-Genesis 1:26, 27 and 9:6. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [and] he made the stars also. "Righteous" is this a question of creation as such? - Genesis 1:27. He was to represent God here below; besides this he was to be like God. Ada tiga ceritera, tetapi ceritera-ceritera itu ada yang sejalan dalam riwayat Abraham. And yet, look at the variety! Is this merely the conserving of the creature? ], As a husband and wife demonstrate oneness in their marriage they reflect the unity of the Godhead. Will it be so always? And God rested on the seventh day from His work of creation.Now as we get into chapter two, we find a recapitulation that will emphasize the creation of man, because of this recapitulation we have now, because man is being emphasized. 2 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. That's gonna worry you, isn't it?But, oh, how marvelous is our God! when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Alas! Genesis 1:26. But I don't have to, again I have a choice, and I can choose to hate if I want. *This moral and typical bearing is the true key to the record in Genesis 2:4-25, and truly accounts for the differences from 1 - 2: 3, which ignorance and unbelief pervert into the discrepancies of two separate and inconsistent writers. That angels could assist in a work of creation. So let there be the "light holders" in the heavensto divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years (Gen 1:14): And so our time is calculated by the sun and the moon, and it is generally thought that the Earth's rotation around the sun was a three hundred and sixty-day year. Carmen Memorial. This is the divine ethnology. Thus holy, thus happy, were our first parents, in having the image of God upon them. over the Marvelous accident! If, in consequence of the curse pronounced upon the earth after the sin of man, who was appointed head and lord of nature, the whole creation was subjected to vanity and the bondage of corruption (Romans 8:20. First, that interpretation only is valid which is true to the meaning of the author. and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air; that is, to catch them, and eat them; though in the after grant of food to man, no mention as yet is made of any other meat than the herbs and fruits of the earth; yet what can this dominion over fish and fowl signify, unless it be a power to feed upon them? The world was living in harmony with God, and thus in harmony with each other.And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. "And God said, Let us " The plural word [~'Elohiym] is used here; and the most logical understanding of it is that of seeing in it a foreshadowing of the doctrine of the Trinity revealed ages afterward in the N.T. The history supposes man thenceforward allowed to act without external law or government to control though God did not fail to work in His merciful goodness in His own sovereignty. There is something striking in the introduction of the expression "and over all the earth," after the different races of animals have been mentioned, especially as the list of races appears to be proceeded with afterwards. 14-16.] Sixth, it agrees with the cosmogonies of all nations, so far as these are founded upon a genuine tradition and not upon the mere conjectures of a lively fancy. "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah-Elohim had not caused it to rain upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the ground. The two terms occur in the very same verse; yet is there not an evident propriety in each case? correct. It is evident therefore that in the one case we have that which was generally necessary, in the other case that which was special and due to the relationship in which man was placed with Jehovah. Nebuchadnezzar, "I have dreamed" Daniel 2:3. The Spirit of God has acted quite otherwise. Nevertheless, even in his fallen state, man retains something of the image of God, for every human being is potentially the beneficiary of the blood of Christ and an heir of everlasting life. As there was a famine in the days of Abram ( Genesis 12:10 ), so there was a famine in Isaac's day. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. But they were different from all other animals and were given power over them; for they alone, of all Gods creatures, were made in Gods image (24-31; sixth day). Cain, as it is said, went out from His presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod; a son is born in due time who builds a city called after his name. God and man share a likeness that is not shared by other creatures. If any reader, having leisure, wishes to enjoy such speculations, let him read the tenth and fourteenth books on the Trinity, also the eleventh book of the City of God. I acknowledge, indeed, that there is something in man which refers to the Fathers and the Son, and the Spirit: and I have no difficulty in admitting the above distinction of the faculties of the soul: although the simpler division into two parts, which is more used in Scripture, is better adapted to the sound doctrine of piety; but a definition of the image of God ought to rest on a firmer basis than such subtleties. [Note: Henry F. Lazenby, "The Image of God: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter?" It is not said in Genesis 1:27 that man and woman were created together; or that the woman was created directly, and not formed out of one of the man's ribs. What part of the land was submerged when the new soil emerged from the waters, how far the shock of the plutonic or volcanic forces may have been felt, whether the alteration of level extended to the whole solid crust of the earth, or only to a certain region surrounding the cradle of mankind, the record before us does not determine. The heavens were in no such state of chaos: the earth was. In Genesis 5:1-3, we read, "In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. He is certainly too vast, too infinite, to be confined to a form that could be hung around your neck or worn around your wrist. It is God that does all, whether it be for the earth, the air, or the waters. likeness. We were . 4 And God saw that the light was good. They were chosen to be the public vessel of divine government on the earth. A man who despises him whom he is bound to honour, not to speak of the special distinction which God had shown him, must come to shame and degradation, must be not merely a servant but "a servant of servants." In Hebrew there is a dual tense, two, and the Hebrew "Elah" is God in a dual tense. The change of designation springs from distinct truths, not from different fabulists and a sorry compiler who could not even assimilate them. Could they so made have carried themselves otherwise than is here described? The difficulty could never arise had they seen and remembered what is stated in the very first chapter of Genesis, and the indelible habit graven thereby on the Jew. The human relationship between man and woman thus reflects Gods own relationship with Himself. He is to be related to the Eternal Being himself. Unto God? "Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus". which seem to be meant by the phrase, "over all the earth"; that His thoughts were easily brought and fixed to the best subjects, and there was no vanity nor ungovernableness in them. Nay, more, now that it is clearly revealed, they have no competency to appreciate it never take in its force; and for this simple reason, that man invariably judges from himself and from his own experience, instead of submitting to God and His word. It may be observed, that the plural number is used, "let them", which shows that the name "man" is general in the preceding clause, and includes male and female, as we find by the following verse man was created: and over the cattle, and over all the earth; over the tame creatures, either for food, or clothing, or carriage, or for all of them, some of them for one thing, and some for another; and over all the wild beasts of the earth, which seem to be meant by the phrase, "over all the earth"; that is, over all the beasts of the earth, as appears by comparing it with Genesis 1:24 so as to keep them in awe, and keep them off from doing them any damage: and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; to make use of it as should seem convenient for them. But there is not an object within the ken of man which he does not aim at making subservient to his purposes. And we really don't know what He looked like. When God made Adam from the dust of the earth, he was the closing chord of God's magnificent symphony. We expect him to work through the normal processes of nature in producing the crops from which we get our food by hard work. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. We have the description of the garden of Eden. Oneness in marriage is essential if husband and wife are to fulfill Gods purposes for humankind. The cheaper edition published in 2010 The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language is the abridged concise edition. The evil is traced home at last to its source, and the serpent is brought fully out. But with that wing, it begins to spin almost like a helicopter rotor and it spins on out far enough away from the pine tree so that when it lands, it can fine a suitable place to grow up into a new pine. And there Jehovah, accepting the sweet savour, declares that He "will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. But the two trees, representing the two principles, which man is ever confounding or obliterating one for the other, are in the scripture as in truth wholly distinct. Genesis 1:24). For man, now as ever, fallen or not, is in the image of God; but the likeness of God was lost through sin. Free standard shipping with $35 orders. It is not needful to say more now. Hence we may see how fitting it is that, as man is about to be introduced on the earth for the first time, as the previous state had nothing whatever to do with his being here below, and indeed was altogether unfit for his dwelling on it, besides the fact that he was not yet created, days should appear only when it was a question of making the heavens and the earth as they are. The word "sanctified" actually means to be set apart because that in it, He had rested from all of His work, which God had created, made. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. The first chapter does not speak of special relationships, does not treat of any peculiar dealings of God with the creature. We saw at the close of verse 2 the introduction of the Spirit of God on the scene. How small are the remains of it, and how great the ruins of it! And God said, let us make man in our image, after He was like Adam fallen, not his representative only. See Notes 2 and 5, at page 75. So all of the animals at that point lived off of the grasses and vegetation. Chapter 1. This is brought before us here. The difference in the divine titles is due to a distinctness of object, not of authorship; and it runs through the Psalms and the Prophets as well as the Law, so as to convict of ignorance and temerity the learned men who vaunt so loudly of the document hypothesis as applied to the Pentateuch. In the post-diluvian earth God establishes principles which hold their course throughout the whole scene till Jesus came, or rather till He not only come and affirm by His own power and personal reign all the ways in which God has been testing and trying man, but deliver up the kingdom to the Father, that God may be all in all, when He shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. I'm so glad that I serve Him. His soul, I cannot doubt, laid hold of the word that God had pronounced in judging the devil. We don't know for sure.Emmanuel Vilikovski again in his book, "Worlds in Collision" as you get into the book, we'll find out that his theory that the introduction of the planet Venus into our solar system that caused the change of the Earth's orbit around the sun. [Note: E.g., Keil and Delitzsch, 1:63. It refers to mans moral powers, and especially to his capacity of attaining unto holiness. [It's your food.] The rebellious spirit of the forefather shows itself in the descendant Lamech. The elevation of an extensive tract of land, the subsidence of the overlying waters into the comparative hollows, the clarifying of the atmosphere, the creation of a fresh supply of plants and animals on the newly-formed continent, compose a series of changes which meet the geologist again and again in prosecuting his researches into the bowels of the earth. Genesis 1:26-28. Vegetable life was before, animal life now a very weighty truth, and of the greatest moment too. It would fit with the Hebrew word "meor". 2. Again, the first three days refer to a lower, the second three to a higher order of things. This was acquired (have you never known, or have you forgotten, the solemn fact?) God is pleased when people study his creation and learn its wonders (Psalms 111:2). And these stupid, foolish, nonsensical arguments which are of no value and of no profit to anybody.That's why I didn't even get into them. For God passes rapidly over the early account and history of the globe I might almost say, hastening to that condition of the earth in which it was to be made the habitation of mankind; whereon also God was to display His moral dealings, and finally His own Son, with the fruitful consequences of that stupendous event, whether in rejection or in redemption. correct. Where, indeed, will they find that we were created after the image of the earth, or of angels? 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