God is the first subject mentioned in the bible. The bible starts off "In the beginning, God" who had no beginnings at all. God is complete. He needs nothing. He always was, as He always will be. He never changes. He is everywhere. He knows everything. Only God existed before creation. This is not true of any other living entity whether they be spiritual or physical in nature. That sets God apart from His creation. This eliminates all polytheistic religions from being the Truth. Also, the fact that before creation only God existed denies pantheism, which is the philosophy that God is in matter or is matter (worshiping the creation, rather than the creator). Pantheism underlies most pagan or animalistic religions. And if God created matter, then He is certainly superior to it. Every particle in the creation, living or not, owes it’s existance to God, because without God’s created works, not one single particle would exist. Any religion that worships matter is therefore, idolatrous.
Order did not rise out of chaos. The creation was not made in a firey explosion as secular science would have you believe. Explosions cause destruction, they don't cause perfection. Explosions do not cause order; they cause disorder. So the big bang is easily shown to be a feeble lie from Satan, when the light of Genesis is shone upon it. Explosions or fire are not even mentioned in the Genesis account of creation! We are told of water moving, so temperatures are temperate. Steam, boiling water, heat, volcanos, lava, ice, and cold are never mentioned during the week of Creation. Yes, it only took God 6 days (Exodus 20:11 “For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day”) to create all we know!
In one powerful sentence, we are told of the creation of the continuum we live in "In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the Earth (matter)".
God does not create a ready-made universe issuing one single command. Out of nothing He creates something. He adds all necessary substances, one layer at a time, as needed. He creates the environment for the life forms first. When the environment is complete, life is created, or it springs forth.
I believe the Spiritual realm and the creatures that inhabit it were completely created on the first day. The environment would be made first and then the inhabitants, just as in the material world.Creation week in brief:
- Day 1 the heavens (the environment for spiritual beings and those beings), the Earth (just an early substrate), light (photons, energy) and dark (absence of light, shadow).
- Day 2 a firmament is created in the middle of the waters (water over and under the atmosphere)
- Day 3 oceans, dry land, and plant life
- Day 4 sun and moon, orbits and rotations, (setting up time keeping)
- Day 5 life in the waters and winged life flying in the air
- Day 6 animals, creeping things, man is created from the clay, man is given dominion over all of creation. Woman is created for man, so that he would not be alone and could reproduce.
- Day 7 rest, holiness, completion, the creation is deemed "very good", Angels rejoice at God’s creation (Job, Psalms), no fallen state, yet!
During creation week we hear quite a bit about genetics. Have you ever noticed that before? From the creation of the very first life forms we hear phrases referring to genetic programming like "yielding fruit after his kind", "whose seed is in itself", "yielding seed after his kind", "every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind", "every winged fowl after his kind", "bring forth the living creature after his kind", "every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind", "every herb bearing seed", and "the fruit of a tree yielding seed". The seeds being spoken of here are life’s blueprints, DNA. Two seeds of the same kind will produce life.
Do you notice a distinct trend here?. God is describing His perfect, ordered creation, and how it was intended to multiply, guided by very specific reproductive instructions for each "kind" of life on this planet. In short, NO MIXING OF ONE "KIND" OF SEED WITH ANOTHER "KIND" OF SEED! Or put in a modern way, no inter-species breeding, in vitro, or otherwise! (see Chimera)
After six days of working on His creation, God rests on the seventh day which men call Saturday. The seventh day is called the Sabbath and Holy, by our Eternal Father. God blesses His completed creation by speaking the words "it is very good" on the Sabbath. This is a perfect creation. No signs of the fall of Lucifer and his rebel angels, or of mankind’s fall, yet.
God lets his son Adam, name the animals. God brings all the animals before Adam to see what he would name them. I assume that God has already taught Adam speech at this point. So Adam names the animal kingdom. While this exercise goes on, Adam notices the animals have male and female counterparts, but Adam does not see his female counterpart. Adam realizes at this point, that there is no female counterpart for him, and that he is the only one of his kind.
God notices Adam’s realization, so He makes a female for him. God puts Adam into a deep sleep. He takes a rib from Adam and with it He forms Eve. The feminine was taken from Adam and used to create a human female, Eve. Adam was created in God’s image, so we can therefore conclude that God has male and female aspects to His nature, because Adam had feminine aspects when he was created in God’s image. Also, we see why a man and woman are attracted to each other, because we lack the part of ourselves, that the other gender possesses.The new female creation is apparently created as an adult, as Adam was. Adam chooses a name for his bride. How awesome! He names her Eve "the mother of all living". That particular name implies that Adam understood this female creature was of his kind, and that by following God’s genetic rules of reproduction, humans could now reproduce.
God marries Adam and Eve, man and wife and blesses their union. The perfect couple are told to be fruitful and multiply and to subdue the whole earth. So this pair of humans are not children. They were old enough to have their own children and were old enough to work. I think we can also assume that Adam quickly taught Eve everything God had taught him, up until that point, starting with language.
All the seeds of creation could be surveyed by Adam: plant life, animal life, fowls of the air, critters creeping, and presumably sea creatures, but no kind was meant for him except another human - Eve. God provided everything Adam needed including a wife. Adam only needed to look to God for his every need. God had planted a beautiful garden for Adam and Eve and their human family to live in. The human family was intended to exist in perfect Shalom with Earth, while gradually subduing it. Behold, planet Earth’s appointed caretaker in perfect balance with the soil from which he was formed!
I would also point out the contrast in the order of events in Adam and Eve’s relationship, compared with our modern ways. The perfect first couple were barely introduced, when God married them. After marriage (1), Adam presumably teaches Eve everything God had taught him. So they are getting to know one another and understanding the rules God had laid down for their future at this point (2). And then in the future, they would have sex resulting in children (3). Note the order of events: marriage, getting to know each other (friendship), and then reproduction (sex). Today, it seems people jump into bed first (3), often, just for recreation, rather than reproduction, before they really know each other (2), let alone be married (1). So in the extreme modern relationship, we see the order is quite the opposite of what God had intended for us. Sex first, friendship second, and maybe marriage later, is opposing God’s order of a perfect creation. Is it any wonder the divorce rate is growing?
