The Book of Genesis: Creation of the World

Creation of the World

• God is proclaimed as the Creator in the Holy Bible, preparing everything for humanity to enter His eternal Kingdom through love.

Introduction

• God as the Creator is introduced in the Holy Bible
• The creation events can be understood by the simple and appreciated in depth by scientists.
• The Book of Genesis aligns with scientific facts.
• The word "day" in Genesis signifies a time era, not a 24-hour day as the sun wasn't created until the fourth time era.
• "Day" often implies eternity in the Holy Book.
• Fossilized bones could relate to mammals with human features, not humans as God gave the “breath of life” exclusively to Adam and Eve.
• The Book of Genesis provides a concise chapter on the early work of creation by God.

God, the Creator

• "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" starts The Book of Genesis.
• "In the beginning" means the prelude to movement and not a time quantity, as time didn't exist.
• St. Basil confirmed that expression "In the beginning" doesn't imply a certain time.
• Many believe that "In the beginning" means "In Jesus Christ", or "In the Word of God".

The Spirit of God and the Waters

• Moses confirmed that God is the Creator.
• Creator is the Holy Trinity, One in essence, nature, and Deity.
• "The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.
• The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters" (Genesis 1: 2).
• The earth was "unseen, and incomplete" as man hadn't been created to see it.
• The role of the Holy Spirit is revealed to create, out of the formless and void earth, a good and beautiful world.

The First Day: Let it be Light

• The first work presented by God was setting forth of light.
• God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good" (Gen. 1: 3 - 5).
• Light materially preceded the existence of the sun.
• The solar system comes from a dark screw-like that is widely spread in the universal space, material is extremely thin and its far apart atoms are continuously moving around a point of gravity in the center of the and the radiation produced by the becomes visible.
• St. Augustine believes that light concerns the holy heavenly city, called "The Jerusalem above", and believers are sons of light and day.
• The works of God began with setting forth of light, for the angels to behold and glorify Him.
• "Darkness" is a deprivation of light.
• On the first day, God created things out of nothingness, but other days, created from things transformed according to His pleasure.

The Second Day: The Firmament

• By ‘firmament’ is meant that range directly above the earth, in which birds fly, and not the space where the stars are.
• Earth was in a state of continuous boiling and was enclosed in by dense vapor.
• The firmament separated the waters above from the waters beneath.

The Third Day: The Plants

• Professor Dr. Yousef Riad stated that the prophet Moses divided the works of God into six time periods, ending with the creation of man.
• In the Book of Genesis, Moses wrote that plants appeared first in the form of simple plants grass then developed into more complicated kinds then trees after animals.
• Moses wrote that God gathered the waters under heavens together into one place and the seas are separate, yet they have a common bottom.
• God ordained that the temperature of the earth falls gradually.
• The scholar Origen discerns between ‘dry land' and ‘earth', referring to man, covered with sin and trespasses, turning into a land soaking with water, unfit for fruitition.

The Fourth Day: Creation of the Great Lights

• God created the exalted solar systems for man's benefit.
• Stars create in the soul an inner living for drifting in the heaven of the Church, so that the soul would rise from glory to glory
• God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth
• St. Theophilus says creating the first three days refers to God, His Word, an His Wisdom Then came the fourth day, referring to humanity, created by God as shining stars, committed to divine commandment.

The Fifth Day: Creation of Reptiles, Fishes, and Birds

• “'Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures'- (Gen 1: 20).
• The beginning of creatures that have living souls was in water and holy waters now also give birth to living creatures according to grace.
• St. Augustine believes that, in the emergence of living reptiles from water, is a living portrait of the emergence of the ancient people, crawling out of the Red Sea, carrying life inside them.
• The scholar Origen believes that in the reptiles, there is a reference to the wicked thoughts, that turns us like creatures that crawl on earth.

The Sixth Day: Animals and Man

• God prepared everything for the creation of animals and man.
• God crowned earth's creation in His image, according to His likeness”, and set man a master over earthly creation.
• Something we haven't heard of for any other creation; He created a soul which carries the image of the Holy Trinity, and according to the likeness of God.

Adam in Paradise

• After the creation of the world and the sanctification of the seventh day, the divine deals with the first man in paradise.

Sanctification of the Sabbath

• "Thus, the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done” (Gen. 2: 1 --3).
• God's rest is not stopping work, but resting in the rest of His creation.
• The rest of God is the rest of those who find rest in Him
• To keep the commandment of the Sabbath means to abide in the Lord Christ, being the rest of the Father and for making it a main line in His plan of salvation of His people; whoever breaks it would be breaker of the divine covenant, and would deny himself the membership of holy congregation.

Adam in Paradise

• God created for Adam, everything to touch in Him the Fatherhood of God and His exalted care setting the paradise eastward of Eden.
• Paradise as an actual history lived by Adam is where Adam enters, to find in Him his fulfillment and the joy of his heart.
• Paradise symbolizes the Lord Christ as the secret of our joy and the Church that carries "Tree of Life".
• "A river went out of Eden to water the garden and from there it parted and became four riverheads.
• if the Tree of Life refers to the Lord Christ that watered the garden refers to the Holy Spirit rivers of living water""This He spoke concerning the Spirit for the Flooding of Spirit over the Church in the world.

God's Commandment to Adam

• God put Adam in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it
• God not let Adam dwell in the garden just to eat, drink, and play, but He set him as someone that to work with a joy of heart and prudence.
• “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Gen. 2: 16, 17).
• Commandment proclaiming his practical love for his Creator and supreme Friend says God wanted to justify man through submission to the commandment so that he would stay a loyal child.
• The commandment raises the value of man as it proclaims the freedom of his will and is a way to enjoy the sanctification of the free will.

The Creation of Eve

• "It is not good that man should be alone" and made him a helper"
• “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” (Gen. 2: 24).
• This Episode portrays the Bride of Christ which is the Church, for whom the Groom humbled Himself.
• St. Augustine said When was Eve created When Adam slept When do have the Church flowed from Christ's side When He slept on the cross If it is with Christ which joined himself to His Church than how did he live his father and mother in the sense that He made Himself of no reputation coming in the likeness of man.

The Fall of Man

• Despite possessing freedom as God's appreciation toward earth's perfect creature, mankind fell under the devil's, disregarding God’s love.

The Deceitful Sepent

• The enemy used the good creation of God a tool to destroy man agreeing to a in the serpent is because the woman started to distort the words of God that he wanted them not to touch the fruit.
• St. John Chrysostom often confirms that the devil is not not infiltrate into us and to overcome us as we did not give him the chance through negligence.
• "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day eat of it, your eyes will be opened said the devil"

Opening Of Their Eyes

• "Then the eyes of both of them were opened they new that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together " (Gen. 3: 7)
• Man, through sin would realize to a state that shows lusts of the body giving getting to.
• They experienced what we need to say God the body the soul over the had lost the knowledge that is to help them stay from the body.

God’s Care for Man

• If man paid back the love of God by God still treats man from that love from illness and to raise him that over him.
• We will not hear that in us unless he holy was not of his they had all to them of all was by saying where had a into all was no

Cursing The Serpent

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The Tunic Of Skin

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Death