I have been reading through the creation account recorded in the Bible. By the power of His word alone God created the heavens and earth and spoke all thing into existence. From the earth He brought forth plants, trees, birds, reptiles, and fish in abundance. Finally on the sixth day God formed man from the dust of the ground in His own image and breathed into Adam a living soul.
Before today I never considered how God created countless living things to reproduce after their own kinds yet created a single human being. When God created the human body He thought of everything and placed him in the Garden of Eden God planted. Genesis 2:8 says, "The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed." God gave man responsibility to tend the garden God planted and a command to eat from every tree save one in Genesis 2:15-17: "Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it." 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 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." God spoke to Adam having provided him the capacity to reason, a conscience, and to communicate using words and language--again, different to plants, beasts, and birds.
Genesis 2:18-20 continued: "And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him." 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him." Having given Adam dominion over the garden and the animals God created, God brought animals to Adam "...to see what he would call them" and the names stuck. I find the freedom God allowed Adam to name the animals compelling. How gracious is God who allows man to make decisions which have enduring consequences.
In all creation there was not a being comparable to him, so God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep and from one of his ribs made woman because she was taken out of man. From Adam and Eve God joined in marriage have all humankind descended. How privileged we are as human beings to know God, to have been placed by Him in profitable labour, to hear His voice and receive His commands. Even now He has graciously given all men and women the opportunity to make decisions that stick in regards to placing our faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour. The first Adam sinned and died, and through the death of Jesus--the second Adam, the Word who became flesh--all who were once dead in sins who trust in Him shall live forever. Jesus Christ has been given all authority in heaven and earth, far more than Adam ever dreamed of.
Paul expertly explained in 1 Corinthians 15:42-49: "So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man."
Before today I never considered how God created countless living things to reproduce after their own kinds yet created a single human being. When God created the human body He thought of everything and placed him in the Garden of Eden God planted. Genesis 2:8 says, "The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed." God gave man responsibility to tend the garden God planted and a command to eat from every tree save one in Genesis 2:15-17: "Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it." 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 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." God spoke to Adam having provided him the capacity to reason, a conscience, and to communicate using words and language--again, different to plants, beasts, and birds.
Genesis 2:18-20 continued: "And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him." 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him." Having given Adam dominion over the garden and the animals God created, God brought animals to Adam "...to see what he would call them" and the names stuck. I find the freedom God allowed Adam to name the animals compelling. How gracious is God who allows man to make decisions which have enduring consequences.
In all creation there was not a being comparable to him, so God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep and from one of his ribs made woman because she was taken out of man. From Adam and Eve God joined in marriage have all humankind descended. How privileged we are as human beings to know God, to have been placed by Him in profitable labour, to hear His voice and receive His commands. Even now He has graciously given all men and women the opportunity to make decisions that stick in regards to placing our faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour. The first Adam sinned and died, and through the death of Jesus--the second Adam, the Word who became flesh--all who were once dead in sins who trust in Him shall live forever. Jesus Christ has been given all authority in heaven and earth, far more than Adam ever dreamed of.
Paul expertly explained in 1 Corinthians 15:42-49: "So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man."
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