Three animal groups mentioned in Genesis 1

1. Three animal groups mentioned in Genesis 1 • ●Cattle (Behemoth)…probably refers to domesticable animals, but may includes large creatureslike dinosaurs. Compare Job 40.15-19 • ●Beasts of the earth…may refer to wild type animals (non-domesticable), or just a group of creatures of unknown identification. • ●Creeping things…insects, small reptiles, things that swarm, etc.

2. Man Is Not an Animal!! Genesis 1.26…God’s image and likeness ►The Psalmist David declares that man is “fearfully and wonderfully made…” (139.14). ►The Hebrew word for “fearfully” (yârê’ pronounced yaw-ray′) means awesomely, or sacred. ►The word “wonderfully” (pâlâh pronounced paw-law′) means to distinguish, or to put a difference, to separate, or to set apart. ►Thus man is of sacred origin because he was made in God’s image and likeness, and he is different and set apart from the rest of the creation because of his being made in the image of God; uniquely designed and specifically skilled for Kingdom activities.

3. ►So, MANwas created with specially designed intelligence, spiritual sensitivity, worshipful heart and aptitude for scientific research and technological awareness.

4. Evolutionary Behaviorism The world’s famous behaviorists were Darwinian disciples; the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov(1849-1936), Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud(1856-1939) and American psychologist B. F. Skinner(1904-1990), plus many more. They believed they had conclusively shown that man, as any other animal, can be made to do or think through behavioral modification and values clarification anything they wanted him to do or think.

5. This fact is even more poignantly exposed in a book called Trust Us, We’re Experts!by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. Stauber profiles one of the modern-day marketing pioneers, Edward L. Bernays (it is interesting that Bernays was the brother-in-law to Sigmund Freud). • Following is an excerpt from Bernays’ book, Propaganda: “In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by a relatively small number of personswho understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”(Emphasis added) WOW! Stauber describes Bernays’ philosophy in this manner: “The scientific manipulation of public opinion …necessary to overcome chaosand conflict in a democratic society.” (see Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals)

6. Will Man’s Real Ancestor Please Standup? • Genesis1:26-27 A great question to consider during this entire section is “When did man become man?” To answer this query we will need to spend a little time reviewing some of the most famous of the so-called ape-men. There have been many fossils identified as our most recent evolutionary descendents. All have been discredited, but the most notable of these alleged ape-men (the ones most often mentioned today) formtwo distinct groups: Those before 1925, and those after 1974-1975.

7. ►Java Man(scientifically named Pithecanthropus erectus, meaning upright ape-man). *found human skeletons in same place but hide them away. ►Piltdown Man(scientifically named Eoanthropus dawsoni, meaning Dawson’s dawn man). * Deliberate Fraud, or Fake ►Nebraska Man(scientifically named Hesperopithecus harold cooki, meaning Harold Cook’s western ape). *Peccary or Pig

8. ►Lucy (scientifically named Australopithecus afarensis, meaning southern ape from Afar). * Taken from Johanson’s web site: “Later in the night of November 30th [1974], there was much celebration and excitement over the discovery of what looked like a fairly complete hominid skeleton. There was drinking, dancing, and singing; the Beatles’ song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ was playing over and over. At some point during the night no one remembers when or by whom the skeleton was given the name ‘Lucy.’ The name stuck.”

9. Most recent: Sahelanthropus tchadensis(dated 6.9 my), • Meaning "child" in the local language. All fragments found between July 2001 and March 2002. Monkey bones, the DNA evidence and geological strata conflict, and it is actually an ape and not a hominid at all (U-Mich 06/19/06 http://physorg.com/news69951315.html; Associated Press in the Washington Post 05/18/06 ; Newsweek 03/19/07 p. 55). • Orrorin tugenesis(dated 6.0 my),meaning “original man” or “millennium man.” Found in 2000—The same thing as S. tchadensis; disqualified even though age range agrees w/evos. (http://www.sciencedaily.com/release/2004/03/040304195656.htm). • Ardipithecusramidus, meaning "ground ape root." (dated 4.3 my) team leader, Tim White, saysArdi is not our ancestor, has opposable thumbs on feet, brain 20% ours, bones apelike. (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/release/2009/10/01_ardiskeleton.shtml).

10. Australopithecus anamensis(dated 4.2 my)—name meaning “southern ape of the lake”—Evo’s no longer refer to it due to the small amount of fossil fragments of this species. • Australopithecus afarensis(dated 3.8 my)meaning “southern ape of Afar (a region of Ethiopia).” Found in 1974—Dropped by most evolutionists as nothing but a monkey, and even Johanson now says that Lucyis not our ancestor—was relegated to a side branch of the family tree (New York Times03/21/2008). She certainly did not walk like us (Scientific American 08/2005 p. 18-19). • Australopithecus africanus(dated 3.2 my) –meaning southern ape of Africa.” First found in 1924—this hominid is more like amonkey than Lucy even though it is closer to modern man, so their evo-story is flawed(National Geographic 8/1998).

11. Homo ergaster(dated 2.0 my),name taken from the Greek meaning “same workman,” but is the same thing as H. erectus. First discovered in 1949.-- Exact same thing as H. erectus. • Homo habilis(dated 1,5 my) name taken from the Greek meaning “same workman,” but is the same thing as H. erectus. First discovered in 1949.-- Lived at the same time as H. erectus. H. habilisnever gave rise to H. erectus (CNN quoting discoverer of the 2 fossils). • Homo erectus(dated 1.5 my) referring to “same” and to “upright” or “upright walking man.” Originally found in 1891-- DNA disqualifies it as a missing link. Referring tocomparison of H. habilis and H. erectus, Fred Spoor U-College London 08/2007 YahooAssociated Press: “It is like your grandmother and great grandmother weresisters.” “Almost certainly a dead end and not, as some scientists had argued, our ancestors.” (Newsweek 03/19/2007 p. 55)

12. Homo antecessor(dated 1.2 my) – very small amount of fossil material, butis the only hominid still in the running to be a missing link. Watch for more info on this one, but it is, no doubt, just a monkey. Homo heidelbergensis(dated 0.6 my) – is a human (archaic). Homo neanderthalensis(dated 0.2 my)– is a human and most Europeans carry up to 4% H. neanderthal DNA. in their genome. “The western European Neanderthals are, in fact, today’s western Europeans,” says,Dr. C. Lauren Brace, University of Michigan. He has studied 2000+ Neanderthal skeletons (4% have the DNA ) Homo floresiensis(flore·ess·ee·en·sis),dated 0.02 my, most likely a microcephalic humanfound on the island of Flores, one of the Indonesian islands. Some islanders tell stories ofthese short hairy people that lived on these islands.

13. Three questions from Genesis 2: (1) It seems that the textual record of Genesis 1 and 2 are differing accounts of the creation, i.e., they appear to be contradictory—can you explain this?

14. Three questions from Genesis 2: (2) In Genesis 2.4, it seems that the text indicates the entire creation was accomplished in only 1day—doesn’t that mean the word “day” can be used in reference to periods longer than twenty-four hours in length? If that is true, how can this verse be reconciled with the use of the word “day” at the conclusion of each of the creation days in Genesis 1.5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31 andExodus 20.11?

15. Three questions from Genesis 2: (3) Why are there eleven different occurrences or sections in Genesis that are always introduced (especially in KJV) with the phrase, “…these are the generations of…”

16. Question 1 There is a basic division in Genesis 2.4 (That I identify as 2.4a and 2.4b), and that appears to significantly affectthe narrative before and after this verse (and that I have arbitrarily chosen to punctuate differently than KJV). • Genesis 2.4a– “This is the history (generations) of the heavens and the earth when they were created” End of the Creator’s toledoth! (Hebrew word for generations, vs. 4a, also history, record) • Genesis 2.4b– “…in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.” Beginning of Adam’s toledoth. • Dr. H. C. Leupold shows that much of the confusion surrounding this verse stems from the fact that verse 4is taken as a whole, and should be viewed as two separate thoughts, namely, 4a as the “toledoth,” while 4b should be connected with the content of verse 5….

17. Question 1 • Thiscalls forth artificial attempts at distinctions. By keeping 4a separate as a title and by combining 4b with 5, the trouble is removed, and a very natural rendering results: ►(verse 4b)At that time [in the day] when the [LORD God] made earth and heaven, • ►(verse 5) (T)hen (when ?)no shrub of the field was as yet in the earth and no plant of the field was as yet sprouting forth; for Yahweh God had not caused rain to descend upon the earth, nor did man exist to till the ground… ►Verse 4b takes us back to the time of the work of creation, more particularly to the time before the work of the third day… (H. C. Leupold, Exposition of Genesis, pp. 111-112) • ►Because of the “toledoth” in verse 4a, the record changes in Genesis 2.4b to Genesis 5.1a. • ►Therefore, the record from verse 4b to 5.1a is that of Adam, meaning chapter 2 is nothing more than the magnification or amplification of creation day 6.

18. Question 2: ●The word day is yōm and is contextually understood: ●as the light portion of a 24-hour day, or • ●24-hour day, or • ●Indefinite period…all 24 hours in length. • ●So, what is the meaningof this word “day”? Dr. Leupold’s says: “It is day one of the creation week.If not, the application of verse 5 becomes extremely difficult.”

19. Question 3: The Hebrew word translated “generations” in KJV is toledoth, meaning descent, or history or generations or family. The ElevenToledoth passages in Genesis • 1. Genesis 2.4a (creation of heaven and earth) • 2. Genesis 5.1a (Adam) • 3. Genesis 6.9a (Noah) • 4. Genesis 10.1a(Sons of Noah) • 5. Genesis 11.10 (Shem) • 6. Genesis 11.27 (Terah) • 7. Genesis 25.12 (Ishmael) • 8.Genesis25.19 (Isaac) • 9 & 10. Genesis 36.1 & 9 (Esau) see Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Record, pp. 524-528 • 11. Genesis 37.2 Jacob

20. Tolodoth(tolodaw) passages : • ●are viewed as subscript, or as the closing of the preceding record. • ●include the name of the record, and may have other pertinent details about the record. • ●are often referred to as colophons.

21. Tolodoth(tolodaw) passages/colophons • Curt Sewell says (mentioned in P. J. Wiseman’s book, Ancient Records and the Structure of Genesis–Sewell discusses clay tablets dating before Abraham): • “…that most of the old clay tablets had “colophon phrases” at the end; these named the writer or owner of the tablet; they had words to identify the subject, and often some sort of dating phrase. If multiple tablets were involved, there were also ‘catch-lines’ to connect a tablet to its next in sequence. Many of these old records related to family histories and origins, which were evidently highly important to those ancient people. Wiseman noticed the similarity of many of these to these passages in the book of Genesis.”

22. The Documentary Hypothesis: • This hypothesis was advanced by a French scientist and physician, Jean Astruc in 1753. He questioned the authorship of Genesis. His work was hardly noticed, for all practical purposes, then,in the latter nineteenth century it was strengthened by Darwinian thought, and Julius Wellhausen, a neo-orthodox theologian published his work on this subject in 1878.

23. Wellhausen’s four proposals for the supposed authorship of the Pentateuch that denied the Mosaic authorship: ►The J (or Jahvistic documents are so-named for the use of the word Jehovah) is supposed to be written by unknown author(s) who chose to use the name Yahweh or Jehovah. The critics maintain that all Scripture with references to Yahweh were exclusive to one author or one set of authors. ►The E (or Elohim documents) consists of those passages that identify God by the name Elohim. ►The P or Priestly document were written by the priestly orders ►The Dor Deuteronomic documents were produced by a person or persons unknown (one scholar has suggested Jeremiah). The composite of these writings are said to have derived from many, many sources and were complied by the aforementioned unknown authors sometime around the Divided Kingdom era. It is interesting that this theory never gained prominence until the 19th century, which coincides with the time of Darwin and his gang.

24. DID MOSES WRITE GENESIS? • I believe he did, because Jesus said he did. • Consider Luke 24:27 & John 5:45-47: • “And •beginning at Moses and •all the Prophets, He expounded to them in •all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. • Questions: • Where does Moses begin? • Where is the first Messianic reference in the Bible (Genesis 3:15)? • ►Either Moses is the author of Genesis, or… • ►Genesis is not a part of the Scripture!!!

25. God rested from His labor (Genesis 2.3).Anthropomorphisms: ►But, God does not get tired; His work of creation was simply an extension of His word. Thus the creation was designed in eternity and physically appeared in time. ►A primary reason for our six-day work period/one-day rest period is God’s own definition of our weekly cycles (compare Exodus 20:11). Dr. Douglas Kelly writes that a primary reason for God taking six days to work and one to rest was to provide an orderly, life-sustaining pattern for His image-bearers [man].

26. Adam is created: • Verse 7 is an important verse. God “formed man from the dust of the ground.” The word translated “dust” means dry, loose, powdery earth; in some places it is used to mean minute particles,possible suggesting the atomic, or themolecular basis for the body of man.(Proverbs 8:26) • This sequence of events completely forbids any evolutionary transition leading to man’s origin.First, we witnessed that on day five God created “nephesh” animals (living creatures into which He breathed soulish life). He could have allowed man to bea simple transition from that same creative process. But, He didn’t!Because man is of such special significance in the plan of God, he could not be the simple transition of that first living creature (chay nephesh). He had redemptive value! God exclusively constructed and uniquely formed man in a separate act of creation.

27. Genesis 2.2-3 • ●What about the Sabbath? • Exodus 20.8, 11: • “Remember the Sabbath day…for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” • Why should we remember the Sabbath? The commandment in Exodus (mentioned above) came approximately 2575years (about 1425 BC) after the creation week. • But the Sabbath was created on the seventh day of the creation week.

28. But regarding the institution of the Sabbath, the Sinai commandment, notwithstanding, it is of supremeimportance because of its association with creation and God’s intended economy for grace and redemption. • This is why we are implored, as a preface to the Fourth Commandment indicates: • To remember that God created the heaven, the earth and the sea, and all things in them, in six days and rested on the seventh day. • Nothing is impossible with this kind of God!!!

29. The 4th commandment is a portion of a timeless document called the Decalogue, but God’s design for the Sabbathpredates the Decalogue, Moses and the nation of Israel. • I suggest that God’s underlying intention is for the Sabbath to touch all that God is to His people. • God sanctified and blessed this particular day at the close of the first week in history, not because He was physically tired and needed to rest, but to establish a very importantpattern of REST, PurposeandDivine Sanctity.

30. A.God sanctified and blessed this particular day at the close of the first week in historyto establish a righteous, godly pattern for man. • B. Quite simply, the Sabbath is essentially, twofold: • ► a temporary curtailment from physical labor “…and he rested from all his work which he had made” Genesis 2.2, and • ► a constant reminder that creation was miraculous and only possible through God. A constant reminder of the necessity of God’s overwhelming Grace! • So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. Hebrews 4.9-10 (NLT)

31. Grace versus Law (*READ carefully Hebrews 4.1-11; John 17.1-5) ► Omnipotence cannot be fatigued! The SABBATH day takes on unusually high spiritual consequences for man when it is connected to its origin in Genesis. The Sabbath is all about God, the Creation as an example of God’s power, HIS PROVISION and His purpose for man in it. To miss this connection is to miss its significance. This is evidenced by God’s reminder that this day was the day set aside to remember the mighty work of the Creator and His daily sustenance.

32. We must be very careful when we attempt to strictly emulate, in Judaic fashion, the ceremonial commandments of the Old Testament in an attempt to institutionalize a religious practice, and this is the case of strict Sabbath keeping.

33. Consider this: It is interesting that Moses told the Israelites they must remain in their place, and not to go out of their place on the Sabbath (Exodus 16.29). And again in Leviticus 23.3, Moses said, “Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.” It is difficult; it seems to me, to harmonize the straightforward language of these verses with public, corporate worship as a strict Sabbath keeping practice.

34. ►The point is the Sabbath is a Godly institution that was established by the Creator on the seventh day of the first week, and Jesus plainly said that the “…Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” ►This He said in His attempt to show the Pharisees that this day was only important when it is connected to its Spiritual significance as it relates to man’s greatest need, and was not meant to become simple religious tradition (Mark 2.27).

35. ► Even though, at Sinai God did appoint Saturday to fulfill that day for first-covenant Israel. Paul said, in his famous passage on the spiritual liberty of believers, that, “One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind” (Romans 14.5, NKJV). This, he said, does not eliminate the need for the Sabbath, but it’s intension was to alleviate unnecessary religious legalismassociated with a particular day. ►When the day is more important than the Creator who made the day, or His intended instruction associated with that day, we aremissing the true purpose for the day and the commandment.

36. God Planted a Garden eastward in Eden(verse 8). • (1) There is not a separate action intended here. The verb “planted” is perfect tense as are the other verbs referring to the completed action in Hebrew, and should be translated showing past tense.

37. God Planted a Garden eastward in Eden(verse 8). • (2)The created garden was “in” Eden. • H. C. Leupold, wrote, “This garden lay in a territory called Eden.” Eden was a created area in which God planted a garden. (Pre-Flood Geography) • ► When anyone endeavors to identify the present location of Eden or any of the pre-Flood geographical locations mentioned in Genesis, they have failed to contemplate the colossal, catastrophic nature of the Noachian Flood. • ► What about the present rivers Tigris (Hiddekel) and Euphrates (two of the four rivers named as having flowed out of Eden); are they not the same rivers mentioned in Genesis 2.14, especially since they have the same names?

38. Features of the Garden ►The text says (verse 9), “And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree…”(KJV). “Grow” is tsah’mach, meaning to bring forth. It does not mean God created the vegetation of the earth by planting seeds and allowing them to grow at their natural rate. ► The garden was noticeably beautiful; “…the trees were pleasant to the sight” (verse 9) ► The garden was abundantly productive for man’s nourishment: The trees were also “good for food.”

39. Features of the Garden ►The garden, it seems, was carefully and bountifully irrigated. ►The garden was the place for man to work—man was to keep it and to tend it (verse 15). But, his labor was not fatiguing? One of our most common interpretiveshortcomings in understanding the pre-fall and pre-Flood environment is superimposing of our experience and knowledge into that text. It is impossible for us to conceive a world that was perfect in every way. When we work, we become tired, because fatigue is now a part of the common conditions we encounter due to the fall and the curse. Adam worked without fatigue!

40. ►Fatigue was obviously a part of the curse due to sin, and sin’s impact on the earth. Remember, God cursed the ground, the animals, man and woman—The Whole creation. The fall caused an incalculable loss to the earth. ►The original world was perfect and everything was balanced and ordered. Thus minimized the work necessary to keep the garden. Toil,labor, exhaustion, fatigue, breakdown and repair, mutation and disease, oversights and blunders, catastrophe and accident were not present in the first garden. There were tasks to be done, but Adam’s body was not worn and dissipated by the resistant forces that came to the earth as a result of the fall and thecurse.

41. The Two Special Trees of the Garden • ►There were two specific trees: • ● the tree of knowledge of good and evil • ● the tree of life • ▪ There is no reason to think that either of these trees were not actual trees; unique in design, but trees, nonetheless. • ▪ Nor is there any reason to speculate about their magical, mystical or miraculous properties which they possessed. • ▪ They came with instructions that said the fruit of one of the trees was not to be eaten.

42. ► They were exactly what God said they were, and their individual names are accurate. What they were and what they did is totally based on what God said about them. Moreover, their divine intent and purpose was directly related to either: man’s obedience or disobedience! The writer to the Hebrews summed it up this way, “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God…” (Hebrews 11.3, NKJV) That’s it! There is only a certain amount of natural explanation, extenuation or amplification that can applied to God’s Word or Work. What you see is what you get! ►When your break God’s law you will get hurt.

43. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil God said man could eat of any of the trees of the garden, except of the tree of knowledge good and evil, and He said “the day” you eat of that particular tree, “You will surely die.” The marginal rendering says, “Dying, you will die!” This warning is unequivocal—disobedience will be immediately recompensed with spiritual death and physical death.

44. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil Nothing much is said about the tree of life, except in Genesis 3:22-23 and Revelation 2.7, 22.3,14. Genesis 3 says, “…and now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden.” It seems, Adam and Eve had not eaten of the tree of life, or they would still be alive. The Wise man tells us in Proverbs 11.30 that, “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life…”

45. The Creation of Eve • ●It seems the final act in creation was the making of Adam’s wife Eve. This was, for Adam, the icing on the cake. Before the Creator can consider everything He has created, formed and made to be “very good,” His one last act is providing a “help meet” for man—meaning “one who helps.” • ●This seems to have been the primary reason for God asking Adam to name the animals—to understand that there was no mate for him.

46. The Creation of Eve • ●Moreover, He created woman from the man—not from the dust of the earth, or from one of the other animals! • ●Paul alludes to this twice in 1 Tim. 2.13 and 1 Cor. 11.8: • 1. “For Adam was first formed, then Eve” • 2. “…man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.” • ●Since this creation event, all men have been born from a woman, but in the beginning the woman came from the man.

47. The Rib…Hebrew for“rib” is tsêlâ‛ (tsay-law′), and means rib, curved, chamber, etc. The actual operation, and its extent, that was performed by the LORD will never be fully known this side of eternity. It seems to me that it was the female genetic material that had to be removed from Adam, and it appears it was located in his side; else why (?) did God remove the tsêlâ‛ from Adam’s side?

48. Now, of the 35 times the word tsêlâ‛ is used in the OT, the vast majority of the time the translators used the English word “side” as the English translation of choice. Dr. Henry Morris writes: • “Probably the verse [Genesis 2.21] should be translated somewhat as follows: “And He took one of his sides, and closed up the [remaining] flesh in the stead of [that which he had taken]; and the side, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.”

49. The Family The vital importance, and divine intent, for the following family couplets of the▪husband/wife, ▪father/mother, and ▪family/home are reflective of God’s Kingdom economy that He set up on the earth in this final act of creation. The family became the fulcrum, the pivotal reality, for God’s Kingdom building program on the earth from that time forward.

50. Courtship & Marriage ► It is important to notice that woman was taken from man’s side, and not from his head or his feet.It was never God’s intention to express inferiority or superiority in the relationship between man and woman (husband/wife). Woman was createdto stand along side the man as an equal before God, differing only in role and responsibility in Kingdom affairs. But that changed somewhat after the fall !