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Understanding Genesis #1: the creation narrative


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In this study, Rob leads a look at Genesis 1 and the creation account. What is the meaning of the waters? 

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Notes:

Rev 21:1

Rev 17:1, 15

Ps 69:1-4

 

1:1-2 Preface: initial conditions before Day 1

  1. ‘Heavens (sky) and the Earth (land)’
  • Earth/land was formless and void (2)
  • Spirit (Ruach) was hovering over the waters
  • 1:3-5: Day 1: Light and Darkness

    1. ‘And God said’ (3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26, 28, 29)
  • Separates the light and the darkness
  • 1:6-8: Day 2: Sea and Sky

    1. 1:6: ‘Let there be an expanse’ (firmament): basic idea is ‘spreading out’
  • 1:7 Waters below the expanse from waters above it
  • 1:8 Expanse: ‘heaven’ or ‘sky’
  • 1:9-13: Day 3: Land, Sea, Vegetation

    1. 1:9 Dry land and seas formed
  • 1:10 Land called ‘earth’: this is the last time God names anything
  • 1:11: Vegetation: (only 2 kinds of vegetation: cp 1:29-30)
  • 1:12 ‘According to their kind’
  •  

    1:14-19: Day 4: Light Bearers in the Heavens

    1. 1:14: ‘Let there be lights/luminaries’: use of ‘greater light’ and ‘lesser light’: are probably an attempt to avoid the names ‘sun’ and ‘moon’; which were used for various deities

     

    1:20-23: Day 5: Sea animals and Birds

    1. 1:21: 2 kinds of creatures live in the water:
    1. Large: ‘great sea monsters’ tannin: also used of sea creatures who opposed God (Ps 74:13-14; Isa 27:1; 51:9)
  • Smaller fish
  •  

    1. 1:22-23: God blesses them: ‘Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the seas . . . earth’

     

    1:24-31: Day 6: Land animals and Man

    1. 1:24: 3 categories of land animals
    1. ‘Cattle’: large quadrupeds which are domesticated
  • ‘Reptiles’: lizards, snakes
  • ‘Beasts’: corresponds with the Heb. ‘living thing’: every kind of wild animal
  •  

    1. 1:26: Creation of man
    1. Change from ‘let there be . . .’ to ‘let us make . . .’
  • Repetition of ‘God created man . . . He created them . . . male and female He created them’
  •  

    1. Addition of ‘subdue and rule over’
    1. ‘Let us make man in our image’
  • ‘Let them rule’: After spelling out man’s relationship with God, Gen 1 now explains man’s relationship with the rest of creation
  •  

    1. 1:29-30: Every plant and tree for food

     

    1. ‘It was very good’

     

    2:1-3: Day 7: Rest  

    1. 2:1-3: completed

     

    1. 2:3 God blessed the 7th day

     

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