myth-one.com wrote:
Benoni wrote:So if Adam was not pure Spirit before the seventh day when God formed him from the dust of the earth and made him a living soul
what was he????.
No man nor woman was ever created as "pure Spirit."
Mankind was made in the image of God. But that obviously does not mean identical to God because after man was created, God said the following:
Genesis 3:22 wrote:And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
So there were at least two differences between man and God when man was originally created.
You totally pulled this out of context and you are ignoring the context of Genesis. Made in God's image and likeness make us just like God for we are his sons.
Lets look at the
Name of God Elohim.
It spelling or interpreted in scripture and Elohim is spelled both “god� and “God�.
The name of God “Elohim� The
only name used in the first chapter of Genesis, is GOD, or Elohim (Jehovah is not even in this chapter)
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. . . " Gen. 1:26. This was God’s covenant with man. This was His purpose for making man — to have a visible expression of Himself!" "But," you may object, "the fall changed all that!
Now man is but a fallen creature." I must answer that when God made covenant it was not dependent upon man’s
keeping any part. It was strictly made on
God’s part —an act of His will. This is proven by the statement: "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things. . . but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundations of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you" I Peter 1:20.
God knew that man would fail and fall and had made provision for that before it happened! Elohim is God in covenant. His people may not know it, but God has said ,My covenant will I not break, nor alter the word that is gone out of My lips" Psa.89:34.
When He assures us that He will be "our God" (Isa.40:1), He means: "For this is the covenant . . . I will put my laws into their minds, and in their heart will I write them; and I will be unto them a God and they shall be to Me a people" Heb. 8:10.
God has sworn — pledging His Word both for Himself and for His creation. God promises for both parts — saying "I will" and "I shall." He loves, first of all, in virtue of relationship, which does not even consider our sinful condition. "For while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
If we are not children (sons) of God; then what are we?
(Who are the morning stars; note plural. Jesus was called the Bright and morning star; that would be my answer
Job 38:6-8 7 When the morning stars sang together, and
all the sons of God shouted for joy? I understand this does not fit a lot of old wine skins; but there is something here.
Son’s of God mentioned eleven times in the Bible without hardly digging past all the bad interpretations. You would have to do a pretty deep and lengthy study on the word Elohim; which I admit would be deep and fascinating. Sons of Elohim; son’s of God; yes that is what the scripture is saying;
note Job 1:6.
Look a little deeper at Ps. 82 and notice how the
word Elohim was used with both a capital G and lower case; same word same meaning both Strong’s 430 and this has happen all thought out the KJV and who know what other translation.
Ps 82:6-8 6 "I said, 'You are
"gods"; (Elohim) you are all sons of the Most High.' 7 But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler." 8 Rise up, O God (Elohim) , judge the earth, for all the nations are your inheritance.
Job1:6
Now there was a day when the sons of God (Sons of Elohim) came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Son: Heb. OT:1121
ben (bane); from OT:1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., [like OT:1, OT:251, etc.]):
God:
OT:430
elohiym (el-o-heem'); plural of OT:433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:
Those differences were knowledge of good and evil, and longevity.
But man gained knowledge of good and evil when they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Man was then ejected from the garden so that he could not also eat from the tree of life and live forever.
God is immortal because He is a Spirit:
John 4:24 wrote:God is a Spirit:
Man is mortal and dies. Had man eaten from the tree of life, they would have become equal to God and the other spirits by gaining everlasting spiritual life.
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The re-creation of the earth is declared to be completed in genesis 2:1:
Genesis 2:1 wrote:Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Genesis 2:4 states that the the verses that follow are the generations of the heavens and the earth
when they were created in chapter 1:
Genesis 2:4 wrote:These (following verses) are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created (in Chapter one), in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens (in other words, the following verses are history because the heavens and earth were completed by Genesis 2:1!),
So chapter two details
how things were created:
For example, on the sixth day, God created man and woman:
Genesis 1:27 wrote:So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
But how did God generate man and woman on the sixth day? The answer to that question is in Chapter 2 of Genesis:
Genesis 2:7 wrote:And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
God does not create or modify man again in genesis 2:7, He simply states how man was generated in Genesis 1:27!
Understand?