My Submission to the Challenge:
Genesis 2:4 (KJV)
“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.”
Commentary:
The verse begins a series of ‘recaps’ of Genesis 1 with additional details being added. The focus here is on the Third Day, when the Heavens and Earth were completed and ready for its first form of life. Day means day, not 'six days'.
Genesis 2:5 (New Living Translation)
"Neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the LORD God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil."
Commentary:
We have confirmation that Genesis 2:4 is focusing in on the Third Day. Moreover, we are at the moment of time when no plants, and therefore no life, existed.
What was the first form of life created on the Third Day?
Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
"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."
Commentary:
As we can clearly see, we have an issue. Christians are told that Man was originally created on the Sixth Day. According to the Bible however, Man was originally created on the Third Day. Who is correct? Does the dogma of the Church get to overrule what is written? Heaven forbid.
For clarity, I will refer to this being as the ‘First Adam’. Note that Jesus is the ‘Last Adam’ who rose on the Third Day. Perfect! Scripture is aligning with Scripture.
Continuing on, we find that the very next verse aligns with Plants being made next on the Third Day…
Genesis 2:8
"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."
Commentary:
According to the verse, Man was already formed before the Plants, obviously. Interestingly, God started with a Garden first, rather than filling the entire planet with plant life. This makes sense from a geoengineering perspective. Start small, then work your way up.
Genesis 2:9
"And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
Commentary:
God begins to make Trees. They are pleasing to the eye and good for food. We are obviously still on the Third Day.
Genesis 2:17
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Commentary:
Continuing within the Third Day, God gives a strict command to the First Adam to not partake of the Forbidden Fruit or else he will die on that very day. Note that there is nothing here to suggest that the First Adam would ‘die spiritually’ or ‘begin to die’ or ‘be separated from God’, etc. Those are false Church dogmas inserted into the text.
Now, since no Animals have been created yet, the First Adam is truly all alone. No problem, God has a solution…
Genesis 2:18
"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
Commentary:
The verse above makes it clear that the First Adam was alone because no Animals were created yet.
Genesis 2:19 (New Heart English Bible)
And out of the ground God formed every tame animal, and every wild animal, and every flying creature of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Commentary:
The timeline jumps to the Fifth Day (creation of flying creatures) and then to the Sixth Day (creation of tame and wild Animals). Note that something very important just occurred. A Law was made. Did you catch it? Whenever God creates a living being, Adam must name it. Moreover, whatever Adam ‘calls’ the newly formed being, that was its name.
Genesis 2:22
"And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."
Commentary:
Because the Animals were not sufficient help, God creates a new being called ‘Ishshah’. Most Bibles translate this word as ‘Woman’. Note that this is not Eve! Nowhere does the name Eve show up until after the Fall.
Now, according to the Law, Adam must name this newly created being…
Genesis 2:23 (KJV)
"And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Commentary:
Adam ‘calls’ the new being ‘Ishshah’, thus that was her name. Again, it was not Eve. Note that Ishshah was named by the method by which she was created. This is a common theme in the Bible. Jacob was the 'heal grabber' etc.
Eve was created by a different method, and thus as we will soon see, was consequently named per said method.
And so it was, when the First Adam, along with his Wife Ishshah, partook of the Forbidden Fruit, they died on that very day. Not only did they die the First Death, but they also died the Second Death…
Genesis 3:6 (KJV)
"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."
The phrase ‘surely die’ means ‘dying ye shall die’ or ‘dying the First Death, ye shall die the Second Death’. And that is precisely what happened, all within the Sixth Day. The couple became dust of the ground.
Here is a study on what the phrase ‘surely die’ means…
Ministry Magazine | Dying You Shall Die: The meaning of Genesis 2:17
And finally, Scripture gives us a foreshadow of the Resurrection of Damnation…
Genesis 3:7 (KJV)
"And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."
Because the couple became dust of the ground, God had to resurrect them. Note that this was not the Resurrection of Glory, but rather the Resurrection of Damnation. Their eyes were opened because the dead are asleep and must be awakened. Did God lie? Of course not. Did the Word of God contradict? No.
God then proceeded to recreate the couple as per Genesis 1:27…
Genesis 1:27 (KJV)
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
As mentioned previously, a new method of creation requires a new name...
Genesis 3:20
"And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living."
Again, according to the Law, every time God creates something new, Adam must name it.
And of course, for obvious reasons, the couple had to be given a new Covering of skin and flesh as part of the Resurrection process…
Job 10:11
“Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.”
No, God did not ‘kill an animal’ and dress them like the Flintstones.
And there we have it. Wikipedia and all the other false teachers out there have been thoroughly debunked.
