Wednesday, 09 September 2009

• Bible Study Reflections: Genesis 2

  Genesis 2 King James Version (For a refesher of this chapter click here)

  This passage is rather illustrative, but leaves enough for the mind to wonder and imagine on its own. I'm going to try to recap without letting my illustrative thoughts be infused.

  The first person, is a male. He became "living soul" once God breathed life into him. Man was still called man, despite not having the breath of God. The lack of breath did not make him not a man. but as a incomplete form of man. at least, in the way that we have seen ever after that first person, is that every person has breath. and thereby every person is a living soul.
  

  God made all the other living organisms during chapter one's account. There is no account of a garden. A garden was formed for the man to be placed in. Where the man was formed before being placed in that garden ia not specified. How the man was placed in the garden or transported, is not specified either. It is simply that the man was placed there after given the breath of life.

  Rain existed only after man had purpose to till it, or, in better words, rain existed after man existed. Until man existed, mist rose from the ground.
  

  There is a huge geography described of water's names and trees whose fruits are permissible for eating and those that are not. there is also a process which is described of how things received their names. Man named the organisms and the organisms were brought to him to be named. He did not travel far to find and name them all. The organisms came.
  

  God rested on the seventh day, and there is no account of any more days after that with a number attached to it. So we recognize the seven-day week. He Blessed the day and Sanctified it, because He rested from his creating work.
  

  There is a curious amount of great detail in this chapter, that I easily overlooked--and that I think a lot of people easily overlook. There is no colorful description of sensorial details to give a specific idea of how things appeared. That is left to the imagination. But there are enough statements to encourage illustrious thinking of how things occurred. Often with literature classes, we learn to embue meaning and "draw meaning" from simple statements, but most times, the book is much more enjoyed when we don't rip it apart to analyze it for what it's worth.. The book can be imagined better that way too. I don't actually have anything to say except that in taking time to look carefully at the words themselves, just the first two chapters are telling me a creation account. Taking the time also self-teaches me that I don't need to argue with anybody about science or hypotheses or anything like that because when it comes to what is not literally in the text, there's really nothing to prove.
  
  In my previous entry, I laid my position of not being a theologian etcetera.and I'd just like to echo this statement. I open up my post to comments from other Bible-Readers.

  What is your reaction to Genesis chapter 2? Did you gain any new insight?

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