Today and yesterday I read chapters 1&2 of the book of Genesis, the first book of the old testament.The book is the first of 5 books, called the Pentateuch, written by prophet Moses who called it the history of the heavens and earth.In the beginning God created the earth and the earth had no form,was void and full of darkness.We note that God created a perfect earth and not the corrupt world systems, processes and policies made by men.The spirit of God was hovering over the seas/oceans.God said,’let there be light ‘.He divided the light from the darkness, and called the light day and the darkness, night.
In the first day,He created heaven above the waters and earth below the waters.He made the dry land and seas/oceans.
In the second day,He made grass,herbs and fruit and forest trees.
In the 3rd day God made the day and night into days, seasons and years.He made the sun,moon and stars.
In the 4th day,He made the sea creatures, birds of the air and commanded them to be fruitful and multiply.
In the 5th day, He made all land animals.
On the 6th day, God made man; male and female in His image, blessed them and told them to be fruitful and multiply,fill the earth,subdue all animals and have dominion.Man named all the animals.God formed man from the dust of the ground,breathed into mans nostrils the breath of life and man became a living thing.God said,’it isn’t good for man to stay alone’, ‘I will make a helper comparable to him ‘.God made Adam sleep deeply and took out one rib from man and made a woman,Eve.Adam said,’this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh and called her woman because she was taken out of man.Therefore a man shall leave his parents and be joined with his wife and become one.They were both naked but they were not ashamed.
God planted a garden eastward of Eden and put man to tend and keep the land.God caused mist to come out of the ground and rain from above to water crops.He planted trees in the garden and put the tree of life in the middle and also planted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.He made a river with 4 tributaries Havilah,Gihon/Nile, Hiddekel East Assyria and Euphrates.
On the 7th day God finished His work, rested, blessed the day and sanctified it.All things were created by God and we are only stewards.We should marry man and woman and be fruitful and multiply, and work.