Well with my soul, not with my body

Well, I was too sick to attend church today, so I'm taking a little my and God time to get a little further in my projects. Relatedly, I believe it's high time for some coverage of Genesis 2. Also, I've added a subtitle to my blog that I think describes it fairly well. I'm just one guy wandering through the Bible. I've had no formal training outside of many years of sunday school, and I don't think I really need to. So these are my thoughts, and you can take them or leave them. Commenting on either the blog or the Facebook mirror is encouraged. I don't mind disagreement as long as you can do everyone the favor of remaining civil. But enough blather.

So Genesis 2. One theme you see a lot here is something I forgot to mention in Genesis 1. I stated that God talking means we listen. Or at least we should. We all know that doesn't always happen. But then in the Bible, you'll see repetition. In a perfect world, or at least with perfect people, that wouldn't be necessary, but God knows it is. It's like He is pointing out "you should be taking in all this stuff, but this part you really need to get". In chapter 1, you see it with "and God saw it was good" which I already addressed, not once but seven times by my count. That just reinforces how perfect He created everything.

The repetition in chapter 2 is less blunt. Read the first three verses slowly. (This will be in my verse of the weekish for a while.) See it? The trend continues through the chapter, but look at verse 3b real quick: "in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made". Does that sound redundant to you? It should. We just read that God made everything, so what's up with that? Just think about all the theories out there today from gap theory to theistic evolution. God isn't giving a whole lot of room for misinterpretation here. This is God's work that He created and made. Not this is some stuff that God found floating around and decided to look after. Not this is some stuff God set into motion with itty bitty bacteria and then sat back to see what would happen. This is God's work that HE created and made. He is responsible for every last atom of creation, and we should treat it as such.

The implications of that are enormous in scope, but we've got a whole Bible to go over how. I'm going to wrap up this post now, but I'm not even quite finished with Genesis 2. I want to give the second half a post of its own, so I will do that some time in the future.

JP out