2-GOD CREATION
The opening passage of the book of Genesis, which recounts God's creation of the universe and all things in six days, has been the subject of ridicule by many as unscientific. Some Christians do not pay attention to it. But some young people wonder and think about it, become bored, and neglect to meditate on God's Word.
Because this is God's science, this is the work of the Holy Spirit. He used such a simple and poetic story to hide a work greater than the creation of heaven and earth. Then Jesus himself used parables and his teachings to reveal that work: "I will open my mouth in parables, and will reveal secrets hidden from the creation of the world."
This story most of us have heard or reading it: It includes 31 paragraphs of Chapter One and 3 and a half paragraphs of Chapter Two in the book of Genesis:
Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth":
This sentence both identifies God as the Creator of the heavens and the earth and enlightens science, because not only at that time but until very recently, many people still thought that this universe existed from eternity and were eternally stable, many people who believed in gods believed that the gods came from somewhere in the earth. But Jesus had already determined 2000 years ago that "Heaven and the earth will pass away", and in fact science has shown that the time the universe was born, grew up and then passed away ("The Origin of the Universe").
Gen 1,2: "The earth was formless void, darkness covered the abyss, and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters.":
"The earth was a formless void": About 15 billion years ago, this physical universe had nothing, nothing could be seen, no dust particles ("Origin of the Universe").
"Darkness covered the abyss": "darkness" is the devil and his power, as for the "abyss", read the parable of "Lazarus and the rich man", where Abraham said to the rich man: "Between you and me there is a great 'abyss'". And in the Revelation according to Saint John, it was also confirmed that the "abyss" is hell. Therefore, we do not have to argue whether there is hell or not, because the Bible has determined: Before the world was created, the devil's power covered hell.
"The Spirit of God hovered over the water": John 3, 5-7: Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." So we understand that the Spirit hovering over the water is God's plan in creating material life and creating our souls.
Gen 1:3: "God said, 'Let there be light.' And there was light":
If we look at science, if there is no luminous object, how can there be light? Or if God just creates luminous objects, there will be light. Therefore, LIGHT has an extremely noble meaning: God created humans only for the purpose of us creating merit to live forever in the Kingdom of God. So the first important thing is that God created LIGHT to lead us to eternal life, the LIGHT that Jesus said: (John 12, 46-50) "I am the Light that has come into the world, so that whoever believes in Me will not remain in darkness. Whoever hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him, for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. Whoever rejects Me and does not receive My words has one who judges him; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. Indeed, I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to proclaim. And I know that His Commandment is ETERNAL LIFE. Therefore, what I say, I say exactly as the Father has told me.":
LIGHT is the Teaching of God Jesus Christ, whose Teachings include extremely precious and important LAWS necessary to lead mankind to eternal life. (See "SUPERNATURAL LAWS").
Gen 1, 4-5: "God saw that the light was good. God separated the Light from the darkness. God called the Light "day", and the darkness he called "night". There was evening and there was morning: the first day":
The Light of Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life, the Word of God, the Word of the Father, the LAWS of God that distinguish what is right and wrong, good and bad, so it is extremely necessary and important that it was created first in the "First Day" (God's most important creation.)
Gen 1, 6-8: "God said: "Let there be a vault in the middle of the waters, to separate the waters from the waters." God made the vault and separated the waters below the vault from the waters above. And it was so. God called the vault 'sky'. There was evening and there was morning: the second day":
Water is life, water under the vault is life The material is the body. The water above the sky is supernatural life, the immortal soul.
Gen 1, 9-10: God said: "Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land 'earth', and the gathered waters he called 'seas'. God saw that it was good": Read Gen 3, 19: "... For from the earth you were taken; dust you are, and to dust you shall return.": So we understand that "earth" is death, "sea" is life. And "The water under the sky" is material life that is born, grows up, grows old, and then dies.
Gen 1:11-13: God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation, seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on the earth, each bearing its own seed in it." And it was so. The earth produced vegetation, seed-bearing plants, each bearing its own seed in it, and the trees bearing fruit, each bearing its own seed in it. And God saw that it was good. After evening and morning: It was the third day.":
Jesus' words: "Every good tree bears good fruit, and every bad tree bears bad fruit..." And as in Genesis 2:9: "The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground that are pleasant to the sight and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." So "trees" and "grass" are big and small things, so we understand the meaning of the above passage that all our actions leave behind good or bad results: Therefore, not only sins are transmitted, but more importantly and necessary, blessings are also transmitted.
Genesis 1:14-19: God said: "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark the great festivals of the days and years. And these were lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to GIVE LIGHT to the earth, and to GOVERN the day and the night, and to SEPARATE the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning: the fourth day."
Everyone understands the literal meaning of "lights" as the sun, the moon and the stars, and as mentioned above, "Light" is the LAWS of God, then we see more clearly here: the light is considered each LAW of God as presented in "SUPERNATURAL LAWS" which includes 3 Laws: The Sun symbolizes the Law of "HAVING IS GIVEN", the Moon symbolizes the Law of "PAYING THE LAST PENNY" and the Law of "GIVE AS MUCH AS YOU RECEIVE". Therefore, the Bible uses three wonderful verbs: GIVE LIGHT, GOVERN, SEPARATE: Meaning: God created LAWS to guide and enlighten mankind to know what is right-wrong, good-bad so that mankind can practice and receive salvation and rely on those Laws to judge and punish the world, and the WORDS OF JESUS are the Laws: John 12, 47-48: "I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. Whoever despises Me and does not accept Me has someone to judge him: MY WORDS will judge him on the last day."
"He also made the stars": In reality, many stars are very large but are very far away so they appear small. "Star" is also God's Law but has a distant meaning such as: "Whoever loves his life will lose it", "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled", "Forgive and you will be forgiven", "Give and it will be given to you", "Everyone who asks will receive, everyone who seeks will find, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
Genesis 1:20-25: God said: "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky." God created the giant sea monsters, and every living creature that moves and swarms in the waters according to their kinds, and every flying bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning: the fifth day. And God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creeping things, and wild animals according to their kinds." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, and livestock according to their kinds, and creeping things of the earth according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.":
See Mt 7, 6: "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves." And Mt 10, 16: "Do not give what is holy to dogs; pearls, do not throw them to swine...": we understand that gentle and fierce animals symbolize gentle and fierce people, good and bad people, so the question "Where does suffering come from?", "Why does God let evil happen?" This passage of the Bible is the answer: God created noble and humble people, black and white people, ugly and beautiful people, healthy people, blind and lame people, deaf and dumb people, disabled people... God created animals, some gentle, beautiful, pretty and useful... There are also poisonous and fierce animals like tigers, leopards, snakes, scorpions, poisonous plants, weeds, germs, bacteria that cause diseases and epidemics... God created warm weather, favorable weather... God also created storms, floods, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis... Therefore, happiness as well as suffering are NATURAL LAWS created by God Himself, but God also created something much more important, SUPERNATURAL LAWS to conclude in accordance with those natural laws that provide, teach, judge, reward and punish according to each person's circumstances. (Message of Merciful Love, Jesus: "Nature has laws that must be respected, but supernatural life with God has even more important LAWS that people must recognize and respect if they want to achieve complete detachment from creation")
Gen 1:26-28: "God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him. God created man in the image of God, male and female he created them": "God blessed them, and God said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth": God rules over heaven and earth, both Heaven and hell, so because of justice He could not create us as angels but "Created man male and female" so that we "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth"
"God created man in the image of God" as a human with a soul: On July 31, 1966, Jesus said to Margarita: "I have created your SOUL in my IMAGE.": Humans are "like" God, in the "Image" of God, humans have souls like God, so humans are a thousand times more intelligent and wise than other species. can dominate all species.
Gen 1, 29: "God said: "Here I give you every seed-bearing plant that is on the face of the whole earth, and every tree with seed-bearing fruit, to be your food. And to every beast of the field, and to every bird of the air, and to every creeping thing that moves on the ground, which has the breath of life, I give every green plant for food":
"The good tree that bears good fruit..." so "Fruit trees" are the good deeds we do that will bear fruit of merit to be "Food" to nourish and sanctify our souls.
Gen 2, 1-3: "Thus the heavens and the earth and all their components were completed. On the seventh day, God finished the work He had done. When He had finished all His work, on the seventh day, God rested. God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all His creative work.":
Before creating man, God created extremely just Laws, so He did nothing other than absolutely base on those Laws to protect, care for, teach, comfort and lead us to eternal life, and based on those Laws to judge and reward and punish. Therefore, "rest" means that all the things God does on earth are in SUPERNATURAL LAWS combined with natural laws.
Genesis 2, 4: "That is the origin of heaven and earth when they were created.": God's creation of heaven and earth and all things and species had a beginning and has lasted through many generations until today.
In short, it is not as some of you criticize as unscientific, but the extremely sacred and miraculous Bible has expressed creation in such a wonderful way: The same text can express from the creation of matter to the creation of the soul and especially the creation of God's good, immutable, and just laws.
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