God the Creator would preserve such of the creatures as required the shelter of the ark. There is the provision of God, not merely for the need of man, but for His own glory; and this in the smallest things as in the greatest. Tela ignea, vol. Without pretending to enter into particulars, this I may remark that in the Bible there is not a more important chapter thanGenesis 10:1-32; Genesis 10:1-32 as regards the providential arrangement of tongues, families, and nations Here alone is given the rise of different races, with their sources. Elohim is a plural word. And thus, when the hurricane would blow, the coconut would fall off and fall into the water, and it would be carried because of the waterproof husk. Life is not the matter out of which animals were formed; nor is it true that matter produces life. Notable features include: * commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION; * the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary; * sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original . (See The image of God below. 70. fol. Others who deem themselves more acute, but are doubly infatuated, say that God spoke of himself in the plural number, according to the custom of princes. Gregory Nyssen has very properly observed that the superiority of man to all other parts of creation is seen in this, that all other creatures are represented as the effect of God's word, but man is represented as the work of God, according to plan and consideration: Let US make MAN in our IMAGE, after our LIKENESS. Then the various species of land animals and birds are brought forward to see what Adam would call them; not when Eve was formed, but before. To me it is perfectly clear how speedy was the fall after the creation of man. The word "sanctified" actually means to be set apart because that in it, He had rested from all of His work, which God had created, made. This supposition cannot be admitted; because the expression "let us make" is an invitation to create, which is an incommunicable attribute of the Eternal One, and because the phrases, "our image, our likeness," when transferred into the third person of narrative, become "his image, the image of God," and thus limit the pronouns to God himself. In any other book, in a book written by mere man, (need one hesitate to say?) Psalm 19:1-6 tells us the heavens contain a message from God. But He will still be bearing the marks of His cross, and may be the only malformed body in heaven.So, "God making man in His own image and after His own likeness" is speaking of that spiritual nature and those capacities of God: self-determination, love, those capacities that He has given to me.And God blessed them, and he said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth over the earth (Gen 1:28). He had described what she was rather than who; it was only when sin had come in, and when others, had there been any, would have called her naturally the parent of death, that Adam (by what seems to be the guidance of God in faith) calls her rather the mother of the living. ." (84) The earth, forsooth, was a most excellent adviser! But the chapter does not close until we find Seth, whom God* substituted (for this is the meaning of the name), or "appointed," as it is said, "instead of Abel, whom Cain slew." And here the effort of the enemy was first to breathe suspicion on the goodness of God as well as on His truth, in short, on God Himself. It is not only what he is doomed to, but the wisely ordered place for fallen man here below. And rather than trying to figure out who wrote it, it's better to find out what it says. [Note: For a critique of this book, see Douglas C. Bozzung, "An Evaluation of the Biosphere Model of Genesis 1," Bibliotheca Sacra 162:648 (October-December 2005):406-23. But if God had such care for us before we existed, he will by no means leave us destitute of food and of other necessaries of life, now that we are placed in the world. On the words "in our image, after our likeness" modern commentators have correctly observed, that there is no foundation for the distinction drawn by the Greek, and after them by many of the Latin Fathers, between (imago) and (similitudo), the former of which they supposed to represent the physical aspect of the likeness to God, the latter the ethical; but that, on the contrary, the older Lutheran theologians were correct in stating that the two words are synonymous, and are merely combined to add intensity to the thought: "an image which is like Us" (Luther); since it is no more possible to discover a sharp or well-defined distinction in the ordinary use of the words between and , than between and . 3. - Ziegler.). In every way it proves itself the word not of men, but as it is in truth of God, which effectually works in them that believe. Moral relationship? It is here explanatory of image, and seems to show that this term is to be taken in a figurative sense, to denote not a material but a spiritual conformity to God. Abel, Enoch, Noah, we have already seen. 26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.". Remove this and the covenant is unthinkable. The real worth of God's promises cannot be lessened to a believer by any cross providences that . He therefore restricts the image of God to government, in which the man has superiority over the wife and certainly he meant nothing more than that man is superior in the degree of honor. Now, the word light here is "meor". See also Merrill, pp. (91) Innuit in homine esse imaginem Dei, sed imperfectam et qualem umbrae. Oleaster in Poli Synopsi. Unto God? The change of designation springs from distinct truths, not from different fabulists and a sorry compiler who could not even assimilate them. Now, the moon we know has no light of itself, it isn't in conflict with the scripture. The chief governing characteristic of God is His self-determination, His will, His ability to choose and to determine His own destiny or His own mind. Is this merely the conserving of the creature? Genesis chapter 1. [Note: Waltke, Genesis, p. [Note: E.g., Claus Westermann, Genesis 1-11 : A Commentary, p. No doubt the mere act could have been effected in other ways. Believers and unbelievers might agree on how nature provides humankind with food, but believers add something extra, because they see God working through nature. mind of man thinks it a mighty difficulty that what appears to be so small a matter should be pregnant with such awful results. Your judgment alike of God and man will be falsified; your estimate of the past and your expectations of the future will all be vain, unless you steadily remember that God now in all His dealings with man acts on the solemn fact of sin original and universal sin. Now without wishing to press my individual judgment of such a matter, I may state the conviction that the Pison and the Gihon, here described, are two rivers on the north of the site of Eden, one running into the Black Sea, the other into the Caspian. The image of God consists, therefore, in the spiritual personality of man, though not merely in unity of self-consciousness and self-determination, or in the fact that man was created a consciously free Ego; for personality is merely the basis and form of the divine likeness, not its real essence. The wisdom of the inspired writer's silence will be evident to a spiritual mind, and the more, the more it is reflected on. The sin began with utter disrespect to a father. As there was a famine in the days of Abram ( Genesis 12:10 ), so there was a famine in Isaac's day. [Note: E.g., Keil and Delitzsch, 1:63. Even for Adam, innocent as he was, life did not depend on abstinence from eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There may be some significance . *It seems almost too trivial to notice what Dr. Davidson and Bishop Colenso (or their German sources) say of Genesis 2:5-6, as if inconsistent with Genesis 1:9-10. Neither would have suited the chapter; both are perfectly in season in Genesis 2:1-25. Our. No language could express so well the truth as that which God has employed as a matter of fact. If man can discover such facts by other means, be it so. What does He do then? We'll all be in our new bodies, perfected bodies that will know no handicaps at all. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. What does this precisely mean? And the same was in the beginning with God, and all things were made by Him"(Joh 1:1). What can be more consistent? Man feels that this is exactly what is appropriate to God. The Fall obscured but did not obliterate the image of God in man. (h) Tikkune Zohar, correct. That man's being evil was a ground for sending the flood we can all see; but what depth of grace in the declaration that God knew perfectly the ruined condition of man at the very time when He pledges His word that there shall come no more flood on the earth! The water, teeming with life, and then the air, and the many, many kinds of birds and the variety of birds that God has created. by the fall. If she possesses all along with Him, it is because of her union with Him, not intrinsically. And these stupid, foolish, nonsensical arguments which are of no value and of no profit to anybody.That's why I didn't even get into them. Oneness in marriage is essential if husband and wife are to fulfill Gods purposes for humankind. With us saying and doing are two things; but they are not so with God. I do not venture on any opinion as to this. The copulative would render it improper, and impossible to bear the character of a general introduction. They speculate; they give you ideas and very foolish ideas they often are. The word of God presents to the simplest Christian the perfect account of the matter. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth upon the earth. Here then we enter on an entirely new state of things, and a truth of capital importance for everybody to consider who has not already made it his own. Vegetable life was before, animal life now a very weighty truth, and of the greatest moment too. This completes, then, the restoration of that order and fullness the absence of which is described in the second verse. 11 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that . This dominion is very much diminished and lost by the fall; yet God's providence continues so much of it to the children of men as is necessary to the safety and support of their lives, and God's grace has given to the saints a new and better title to the creature than that which was forfeited by sin; for all is ours if we are Christ's, 1 Corinthians 3:22. Genesis 2:18; Psalm 12:5; Isaiah 33:10). John 1:1, which affirms that the Word was God, and in the beginning with God, and that without Him there was nothing made that hath been made, supports the thought that both Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit (revealed in Genesis 1:2 as active in the creation) should be understood as included in "us" and "our" here. Clarke's Commentary. Genesis 2:18.). I'm made in the image of God, who is a self-determinant being.Now, if God created me with a capacity of choice, it would be totally meaningless unless He gave me a choice. This explanation involves what some people call, sometimes disparagingly, the "gap theory," which shows that the Bible allows for a long time interval between verse 1 and verse 2 of Genesis 1. The first and second verses make allusion to these well-known measures of time. * If the book were in each of these different subjects written according to that most perfect keeping which pervades scripture, and which only God is capable of producing by His chosen instruments, I am convinced that, as Elohim simply in Genesis 2:1-25, so "Jehovah-Elohim" in Genesis 1:1-31, would have been wholly out of place with their respective positions in 1 and 2. Man's present experience would have suggested neither; yet his heart and conscience, unless rebellious, feel how right and becoming all is in such a state of things none other so good. The evil is traced home at last to its source, and the serpent is brought fully out. to make use of it as should seem convenient for them. (86) Some here distinguish, and say the image is in what is natural, the likeness in what is gratuitous. ); this subjection might have been accompanied by a change in the organization of the animals, though natural science, which is based upon the observation and combination of things empirically discovered, could neither demonstrate the fact nor explain the process. Genesis 1:26. 124.] This precludes all pantheistic notions of the origin of man. He rested just from His creation. . So we find, now, the crowning act of God's creation. We thus learn the compatibility of these two things, which in fact were true of man a fall from the relationship of innocence, in which he was originally set with God, and a rise in moral capacity, which, without faith, entails immense misery, but which is of the utmost value when one is brought to God by our Lord Jesus. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and fruit trees yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so (Gen 1:9-11). The sixth day, as being the last, is distinguished above all the rest by the article - "a day, the sixth" (Gesenius, 111, 2a). God made but one male and one female, that all the nations of men might know themselves to be made of one blood, descendants from one common stock, and might thereby be induced to love one another. 98. Journal of Dispensational Theology 12:37 (December 2008):5-24. He is certainly too vast, too infinite, to be confined to a form that could be hung around your neck or worn around your wrist. De Profugis, p. 460. Here he gave them, 1. "The serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah-Elohim had made.". And this is what is referred to inJames 3:1-18; James 3:1-18, where he speaks of our having been made in the likeness of God. It was addressed to the serpent. This, as suggesting an external likeness, may refer to mans reason, free-will, self-consciousness, and so on. Other phases of human likeness to God are seen in such things as freedom of will, moral responsibility, intellectual achievement, and creativity. In the day that God created man." By power we act, either in giving expression to our concepts in words, or effect to our determinations in deeds. The days that follow I see no ground for interpreting save in their simple and natural import. That man was made male and female, and blessed with the blessing of fruitfulness and increase. He begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness. Observe another thing too. And those instinctive abilities in the birds!I'm always fascinated by that little bird in Hawaii that goes up into the Aleutian chain in order to mate. 3 And God said, c " Let there be light, " and there was light. Thus God declares Himself in every word He utters. Here accordingly we find in Genesis 2:1-25, with a fulness and precision given nowhere else, God's entering into relationship with man, and man's relation to Eden, to the animal realm, and to woman specially. Seth therefore was begotten in Adam's own likeness, not in God's. But this was not Adam's state, but simply made upright, with absence and ignorance of evil. (89) Erat erim in singulis animae partibus temperatura quae suis numeris constabat.. There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We can see afterwards how verified the curse was, as it will be yet more. Here on the fifth day, now, we have the more complex life forms. The account of the six days work, therefore, is the counterpart of that verse. For it is a day when all things are in question, even the surest. MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE Man. Hitherto God has been introduced simply as commanding; now, when he approaches the most excellent of all his works, he enters into consultation. On the contrary, we have all read these chapters in the Bible, and we may have read them as believers too, without seeing their immense scope and profound accuracy all at once. him), ( Proverbs "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us," says Genesis 1:26 in the NLT. In truth only God is competent to pronounce; and this He has done. (Genesis 2:1-3). He presents very interesting arguments. There is no record of previous populations that sometimes are alleged from what is written here to have existed prior to humanity. In the post-diluvian earth God establishes principles which hold their course throughout the whole scene till Jesus came, or rather till He not only come and affirm by His own power and personal reign all the ways in which God has been testing and trying man, but deliver up the kingdom to the Father, that God may be all in all, when He shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. This accordingly is the ground taken, to which I refer as an instance of the perfectness of scripture, but at the same time of the profound and practical power of the truth of God. This first verse of the book of Genesis introduces the creation account found in Genesis chapters 1 and 2. It sedulously refrains from importing modern notions into the narrative. The narrative of it is introduced with something of solemnity, and a manifest distinction from the rest. Even if they had the physical appearance of human beings, they would be no more than creatures of the animal world.An animals animality is in itself; a persons humanity is not. That either matter existed crude or God created it in disorder has not, I believe, the smallest foundation in the word of God. No doubt afterwards God did as the Jehovah of Israel impose the remembrance of the Sabbath every seventh day of the week on His people. I don't intend to get into them. We see the clock winding out. There was a famine in the land: Though Isaac lived in the land God promised to his father Abraham and his descendants, it did not mean that life in the land would be without trouble or challenge. The Bible tells us that God is the Creator, and it reveals something of his purposes in creation, but if people want to find out how the physical creation functions, they must do so by hard work as God has appointed (Genesis 3:19). , over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. In reading the Bible we must understand not only what the Bible says but also what it means. Here man is at sea; but where he does arrive at conclusions, this at least is the common consent, as far as I know, of all who have given their minds to the study, that there are three, and only three, divisions into which nations properly diverge. Men have fancied contradictions; they have fallen back on the old resource of opposed documents put together. The word Adam, which we translate man, is intended to designate the species of animal, as chaitho, marks the wild beasts that live in general a solitary life; behemah, domestic or gregarious animals; and remes, all kinds of reptiles, from the largest snake to the microscopic eel. They pop and the seed shoots out, exploding kind of a seed. Does he have the form of a man, or of a woman, or both? It acknowledges the narrative character of the first verse. (84) For the various opinions of Jewish writers on this subject, see Pooles Synopsis in loco. But it was important to show its ground in the facts of creation, apart from special relationship, and that made Elohim alone appropriate in this place. Here, then, are the great points of conformity to God in man, namely, reason, speech, will, and power. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. I must be permitted here to say a word on a subject which, if it has called out enormous discussion, betrays in its course, I am sorry to say, no small amount of evident infidelity. Enoch brings both these lessons before us. Such was the condition in which man was formed. I wonder how long the pine tree could have existed before it decided, "I need to get my seeds out further" and it developed the little wing on the seed.There are other seeds that when the pod dries out they explode. There it is plain that the writer gives a summary. There is not the slightest reason for suspicion. part of the creation, and for the sake of whom the world, and all Just as little ground is there for regarding the plural here and in other passages (Genesis 3:22; Genesis 11:7; Isaiah 6:8; Isaiah 41:22) as reflective, an appeal to self; since the singular is employed in such cases as these, even where God Himself is preparing for any particular work (cf. And so you have the "EPJ" or the "JEP" concepts of how many authors of Genesis, and somebody's even thrown in an "I" somewhere there. Flesh and spirit, heaven and earth, must be put together in him, and he must be allied to both worlds. They were made to dwell upon the face of all the earth,Acts 17:26. The solution is short; Paul there alludes only to the domestic relation. This shows that the plural Elohim was known to convey a singular meaning despite its plural form. Scripture is divine from first to last. Meaning of Genesis 1:26. `vau', he"; that is, to Jehovah, which is in the midst of the ten But to people of ancient times, and even to us today, the earth where people live is the centre of their world. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. It is false that scripture does not leave room for his investigation. I believe that they are what are called, or used to be called in ancient times at any rate, the Phasis and the Aras or Araxes. "Likeness" is a more general term, indicating resemblance in any quality, external or internal. Now, not only may it be the simple fact that Elohim alone was used, but, further, on account of it, the historian would not introduce here the name of special relationship which the enemy was above all anxious to have if possible forgotten, and which the woman in fact did soon forget when she allowed one to work on her mind whose first aim was to sow distrust of God. ii. The phraseology employed perfectly agrees with and confirms the analogy of revelation, that the first verse speaks of an original condition which God was pleased to bring into being; the second, of a desolation afterwards brought in; but how long the first lasted what changes may have intervened, when or by what means the ruin came to pass, is not the subject-matter of the inspired record, but open to the ways and means of human research, if indeed man has sufficient facts on which to ground a sure conclusion. What dispensation could there be? Paul says that we are transformed into the image of God by the gospel. I affirm then that, when God thus made man, when He put him in Eden, the actual test was the interdict not of a thing which was in itself evil, but simply and prescriptively wrong for man because God had forbidden it. I form the sounds by the expelling of air and the movement of all of these things in coordination, so that the sounds come forth in a way, that because we have agreed that particular sounds mean particular things, I'm able to communicate intelligibly to you through sounds that I can form in my mouth. Ed. Genesis 1:26. This, too, agrees with the whole bearing of the first chapter, which deals in a large general way with genera and species, and not with individuals. God forbid that by indulging the body, and the desires of it, we . the cause of causes said to "`jod', he, `vau', he"; that is, to Jehovah, which is in the midst of the ten numerations. The earth is only a very small part of Gods creation, but the creation story in the Bible is concerned mainly with the earth and mentions other features only in relation to the earth.The Genesis account is concerned with showing that God made everything out of nothing, that he worked from the formless to the formed, from the simple to the complex. God created people to rule over creation. I am sure, not that she was exactly entitled to give the name, but that it can be proved that she gave a singularly inappropriate one. And Jehovah speaks to him thus "Why art thou wroth? The seventh day was to be the day that we acknowledge God and give unto God, and we do it by resting. The scientist may speak of the sun as the centre of the solar system, with the earth a minor planet of the sun, and the moon a small satellite of the earth. The difficulty could never arise had they seen and remembered what is stated in the very first chapter of Genesis, and the indelible habit graven thereby on the Jew. The most vaulting pride always has the deepest fall. I can understand, when all is clear, a word used figuratively; but nothing would be so likely to let elements of difficulty into the subject, as at once giving us in tropical language what elsewhere is put in the simplest possible forms. Expect More. But they were different from all other animals and were given power over them; for they alone, of all Gods creatures, were made in Gods image (24-31; sixth day). Who was God talking to? Isaiah 40:26 tells us that God made the stars and calls them by name. Ada tiga ceritera, tetapi ceritera-ceritera itu ada yang sejalan dalam riwayat Abraham. Since the image of God had been destroyed in us by the fall, we may judge from its restoration what it originally had been. A likeness to the angels cannot be inferred from Hebrews 2:7, or from Luke 20:36. It merely describes in a few graphic touches, that are strikingly true to nature, the last of those geologic changes which our globe has undergone. They were chosen to be the public vessel of divine government on the earth. Angels were created, but they are spirits, lacking potential. Human beingsboth men and womenare made in God's image ( Genesis 1:27; 5:1-3; 9:6; James 3:9 ). It is owing to this blessing, which God commanded at first, that the race of mankind is still in being, and that as one generation passeth away another cometh. Now you have God saying "let us make man in our image after our likeness". Ed. Then we find the generations of the sons of Shem. They're not rooted, they're not grounded, they are mobile, and the various cycles that God has created, the whole process is just so marvelous indeed. 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