GENESIS CHAPTER TWO

OBSERVATION STAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The purpose of the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the normative rules of language, context and logic which limits the observer to the content offered by the book of Luke. This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.

Remember that something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in view.

The end of the previous chapter has great bearing upon the context of Genesis chapter 2:

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[Gen 1:31]:

THE STAGES OF CREATION OF THE HEAVENS & THE EARTH WERE COMPLETED IN SIX DAYS - THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO BE DONE, NO EVOLUTION REQUIRED - AND IT ALL WAS VERY GOOD

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I) [Gen 2:1-4]:

A) (Gen 2:1-3) GENESIS 2:1-3

(AS WELL AS GEN 2:4a EXAMINED BELOW )

ACTUALLY CONCLUDE CHAPTER ONE. VERSES ONE AND TWO STIPULATE THE COMPLETION OF GOD'S CREATION WORK BY THE SEVENTH DAY. VERSE 3 BLESSES THAT SEVENTH DAY AND SANCTIFIES IT TO COMMEMORATE THE CESSATION OF HIS CREATION WORK

B) (Gen 2:4a) THE HEBREW WORD TRANSLITERATED "TOLEDOTHS," RENDERED "GENERATIONS" IN THE SENSE OF "ACCOUNTS OF" IS THE PIVOTAL WORD IN GENESIS 2:4a WHICH - BY WAY OF A SUMMARY STATEMENT - CONCLUDES THE CONTEXT OF THE SIX DAYS OF CHAPTER ONE - AFTER WHICH CHAPTER TWO BEGINNING WITH GEN 2:4b TURNS TO DETAILS OF WHAT HAD ALREADY OCCURRED IN CHAPTER ONE

C) ONCE COMPLETELY CREATED AND PERFECT IN GOD'S EYES BUT THEN CONTAMINATED BY THE FALL, THE HEAVENS & THE EARTH ARE NOW DEVOLVING AND DETERIORATING

1) PRESENT PROCESSES ARE OF CONSERVATION & DISINTEGRATION NOT THE CREATIVE PROCESSES OF INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION CONTINUE TO CK LINKS

2) THE TWO UNIVERSAL LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS REFLECT CREATION'S DEVOLUTION & DETERIORATION

3) SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION OF TODAY'S PROCESSES, INCLUDING CONSERVATION AND DISINTEGRATION INDICATES THAT SUCH PROCESSES COULD NEVER HAVE PRODUCED LIFE, THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE

4) SINCE WE CANNOT OBSERVE WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE WE ARE LEFT WITH GOD'S REVELATION TO MANKIND IN THE BIBLE OF WHAT HAPPENED

II) [Gen 2:4b-25]:

A) (Gen 2:4b) THE NAMES FOR GOD DIFFERING BETWEEN CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO BEGINNING AT GEN 2:4b INDICATE A CONTEXT CHANGE NOT A CONTRADICTION OR A CHANGE IN AUTHORS, AS SOME CONTEND. THE NAME CHANGE SIGNIFIES AND CORROBORATES THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER TWO TO BE AT GEN 2:4b

B) (Gen 2:4b) THE SECOND PHRASE OF GENESIS 2:4, (GEN 2:4b), REFERS TO THE DAY IN THE SENSE OF THE TIME OF THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION DELINEATED IN GENESIS CHAPTER ONE. HENCE GEN 2:4b MUST BE READ AS THE ACTUAL BEGINNING OF GENESIS CHAPTER TWO. THE VERSES PRECEDING GEN 2:4b ARE PART OF GENESIS CHAPTER ONE

C) [(Gen 2:4b-6) THE BEGINNING VERSES OF GENESIS CHAPTER TWO]:

1) [Compare the context of Gen 1:9-13 with Gen 2:4b-6]:

a) [Gen 1:9-13]:

i) (Gen 1:9-10) In The Day That The LORD GOD Made The Heavens And The Earth - on the third day when the dry land appeared

[Compare Ps 33:7 NAS]:

(Gen 1:11-13) The Time Span For The Creation Of Vegetation On The Earth Was Part Of A Literal Twenty-four Hour Day In Which Fully Mature Plant Life Appeared

[Gen 1:24]:

[Compare Mk 10:6]:

[Compare 1 Cor 15:38-39 which indicates that there are different kinds of living beings which are not related to one another - especially via some evolutionary process]:

1 cont.) [Compare the context of Gen 1:9-13 with Gen 2:4b-6, (cont.)]:

b) [Gen 2:4b-6 - In The Day That The LORD GOD Made The Heavens And The Earth - On The Third Day When The Dry Land Had Appeared, (cf. Gen 1:9-13); But All The Shrubs And Plants Of The Field Had Yet To Be Grown Because The LORD GOD Had Not Made It Rain On Earth, And There Was No Man To Work The Ground; But A Mist Went Up From The Earth And Watered The Whole Face Of The Ground, Implying The Sprouting Up Of Plants Throughout The Earth]:

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D) [(Gen 2:7) THEREAFTER, GENESIS CHAPTER TWO MOVES THE FOCUS UPON THE LATTER PART OF THE SIXTH DAY OF CREATION WHEN JEHOVAH ELOHIM, THE LORD GOD, FORMED THE MAN, ADAM FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND UPON GOD'S BREATHING INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIVES, (PLURAL), WHEREUPON THE MAN ADAM BECAME A UNIQUE LIVING CREATURE WITH BOTH A PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE]:

1) [Compare Gen 1:26-31 with Gen 2:7]:

a) [Compare Gen 1:26-31 - At Some Point Within Day Number Six Of Creation. God Made Man In His Image Both Male And Female, And Gave Them Dominion Over All Living Things And All The Earth. He Commanded Them To Be Fruitful And Multiply And Subdue The Earth. He Provided Them And All The Animals With Multiple Kinds Of Vegetation For Food]:

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[Gen 1:26-27 - THE CREATION OF MAN]:

"LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE"

GOD IS MADE UP OF MORE THAN ONE PERSONALITY HENCE, THE PLURAL FORMS IN "LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE"

MAN - IN THE SENSE OF MANKIND - MALE AND FEMALE - IS CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE

[Compare Ps 8:5-8]:

[Compare Pr 30:4]:

[Compare Gen 5:2]:

[Compare. Gen 2:23]:

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[Gen 1:28-31]:

MANKIND WAS BLESSED BY GOD AND COMMANDED MAN TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, AND FILL THE EARTH WITH ITS KIND WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGE; AND MANKIND WAS TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE EARTH AND EVERY LIVING THING IN IT. AND GOD SAID IT WAS VERY GOOD. AND THERE WAS EVENING AND MORNING ON THE SIXTH CONSECUTIVE 24 HOUR DAY

GOD PROVIDED ALL VEGETARIAN FOOD FOR MAN AND ALL ANIMALS - NO CARNIVORES IN ORIGINAL CREATION. THERE EVIDENTLY WAS A PROTECTIVE WATER CANOPY OVER THE EARTH WHICH PROVIDED OPTIMUM CONDITIONS FOR THE GROWTH OF PLANTS, ANIMALS AND HUMAN LIFE, WHEREIN LONGEVITY AND SIZE WAS UNSURPASSED

[Compare Gen 6:4 KJV]:

[Gen 1:14-19]:

[Job 38:4-9]:

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D cont.) [(Gen 2:7) THEREAFTER, GENESIS CHAPTER TWO MOVES THE FOCUS UPON THE LATTER PART OF THE SIXTH DAY OF CREATION WHEN JEHOVAH ELOHIM, THE LORD GOD, FORMED THE MAN, ADAM FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND UPON GOD'S BREATHING INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIVES, (PLURAL), WHEREUPON THE MAN ADAM BECAME A UNIQUE LIVING CREATURE WITH BOTH A PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE] (cont.):

1 cont.) [Compare Gen 1:26-31 with Gen 2:7, (cont.)]:

b) [Compare Gen 2:7]:

i) [Compare Job 33:4]:

ii) [Compare Eccl 12:5-7]:

iii) [Compare Isa 42:5]:

iv) [Compare Zech 12:1]:

v) [Heb 12:9]:

vi) [Compare Isa 14:3-7]:

vii) [Compare Isa 44:23]:

viii) [Ezek 32:18-24]:

E) (Gen 2:8-17) JEHOVAH GOD PLANTED A GARDEN IN EAST EDEN, SET ADAM IN IT, CAUSED EVERY TREE THAT IS BEAUTIFUL OR GOOD FOR FOOD TO GROW THERE, AND PLANTED IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL - THEREBY CREATING ADDITIONAL VEGETATION AFTER ADAM WAS FORMED. BUT THERE IS NO IMPLICATION IN GENESIS THAT GOD WOULD BE THROUGH CREATING VEGETATION BY THE END OF DAY THREE.

FURTHERMORE, THERE WAS A RIVER GOING OUT FROM EDEN TO WATER THE GARDEN WHICH PARTED INTO FOUR RIVERHEADS: THE PISHON RIVER, WHICH SKIRTS THE WHOLE LAND OF HAVILAH, WHERE THERE IS GOLD, BDELLIUM AND ONYX STONE; THE GIHON RIVER WHICH GOES AROUND THE WHOLE LAND OF CUSH; THE HIDDEKEL WHICH GOES TOWARD THE EAST OF ASSYRIA, AND THE EUPHRATES. AND JEHOVAH GOD [TAKES, IMPERFECT MOOD] THE MAN, AND [CAUSES HIM, IMPERFECT MOOD] TO SETTLE DOWN AND REST IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, TO WORK IT AND TO KEEP IT [THE GROUND, (CF. GEN 2:5)]. WHEREUPON GOD COMMANDED ADAM, "OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT; AND OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, [YOU DO] NOT EAT OF IT, FOR IN THE DAY OF [YOUR] EATING OF IT — DYING [YOU DO] DIE."

1) [Compare Gen 1:11-13]:

2) [Compare Gen 1:26-31]:

3) [Compare Gen 2:7]:

4) [Compare Gen 2:8-9 Hebrew interlinear]:

5) [Compare Gen 3:22]:

6) [Compare Dan 10:1-9]:

7) [Compare Ez 31:1-9]:

E cont.) (Gen 2:8-17 cont.) JEHOVAH GOD PLANTED A GARDEN IN EAST EDEN, SET ADAM IN IT, CAUSED EVERY TREE THAT IS BEAUTIFUL OR GOOD FOR FOOD TO GROW THERE, AND PLANTED IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL - THEREBY CREATING ADDITIONAL VEGETATION AFTER ADAM WAS FORMED. BUT THERE IS NO IMPLICATION IN GENESIS THAT GOD WOULD BE THROUGH CREATING VEGETATION BY THE END OF DAY THREE.

FURTHERMORE, THERE WAS A RIVER GOING OUT FROM EDEN TO WATER THE GARDEN WHICH PARTED INTO FOUR RIVERHEADS: THE PISHON RIVER, WHICH SKIRTS THE WHOLE LAND OF HAVILAH, WHERE THERE IS GOLD, BDELLIUM AND ONYX STONE; THE GIHON RIVER WHICH GOES AROUND THE WHOLE LAND OF CUSH; THE HIDDEKEL WHICH GOES TOWARD THE EAST OF ASSYRIA, AND THE EUPHRATES. AND JEHOVAH GOD [TAKES, IMPERFECT MOOD] THE MAN, AND [CAUSES HIM, IMPERFECT MOOD] TO SETTLE DOWN AND REST IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, TO WORK IT AND TO KEEP IT [THE GROUND, (REF. GEN 2:5)]. WHEREUPON GOD COMMANDED ADAM, "OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT; AND OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, [YOU DO] NOT EAT OF IT, FOR IN THE DAY OF [YOUR] EATING OF IT — DYING [YOU DO] DIE," (cont.) =

8) [Compare Gen 3:8]:

9) [Compare Gen 2:4b-5]:

10) [Compare Gen 2:15 Septuagint - Interlinear with translation]:

11) [Compare with Gen 2:5 Septuagint]:

12) [Compare Gen 1:26-28; 2:5, 16-17]:

13) [Compare Dt 13:4, (cf. Dt 10:12-13]:

14) [Compare Gen 3:17-23]:

15) [Gen 2:17b Hebrew Interlinear]:

16) [Compare Gen 3:22]:

17) [cf. 1 Tim 6:13-16]:

F) (Gen 2:18-25) JEHOVAH GOD DELARED, "IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO BE ALONE, I DO MAKE TO HIM AN HELPER - AS HIS COUNTERPART." IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THIS, GOD FORMS EVERY ANIMAL OF THE FIELD, AND EVERY BIRD OF THE HEAVENS AND BRINGS THEM INTO THE MAN TO NAME. THEREBY CREATING ADDITIONAL ANIMALS AND BIRDS AFTER ADAM WAS FORMED. BUT THERE IS NO IMPLICATION IN GENESIS THAT GOD WOULD BE THROUGH CREATING ANIMALS AND BIRDS UNTIL AFTER DAY SIX WAS OVER. AND IN THE PROCESS OF NAMING THE ANIMALS, ADAM DID NOT FIND A HELPER - A COUNTERPART OF HIS OWN. WHEREUPON GOD CAUSED A DEEP SLEEP TO FALL ON ADAM, TOOK ONE OF HIS RIBS, CLOSED UP THE FLESH; AND GOD BUILDS UP THE RIB INTO A WOMAN, BRINGS HER INTO THE MAN. ADAM SAID, "THIS ONE IS BONE OF MY BONE AND FLESH OF MY FLESH; THIS ONE WILL BE CALLED WOMAN, FOR SHE WAS TAKEN FROM MAN." THEREFORE, IT WAS DECLARED, A MAN LEAVES HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER AND CLEAVES UNTO HIS WIFE, AND THEY HAVE BECOME ONE FLESH. AND THEY ARE BOTH OF THEM NAKED, THE MAN AND HIS WIFE, AND THEY ARE NOT ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. WHEREUPON CAME THE END OF GOD'S CREATION WORK, JUST AS ACCOUNTED FOR IN GENESIS CHAPTER ONE

1) [Gen 1:20-31]:

2) [Compare Gen 2:23]:

3) [Gen 5:2]:

III) THE GENESIS ACCOUNT OF CREATION REFERRING TO CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO IS NOT MYTHOLOGICAL

A) NEITHER POPULAR OPINION NOR PRIOR EXISTENCE OF SIMILAR ACCOUNTS INVALIDATES THE GENESIS ACCOUNT OR ANY ACCOUNT

B) PROPER APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTENTS OF AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT

1) RULE #1: IN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT INTERPRETATION:

LET THE WORDS SAY WHAT THEY MEAN (WHICH MEANS PROPER TRANSLATION). THEN CHECK OUT WHETHER OR NOT THE INTERPRETATION IS TRUTH ON THE BASIS OF AVAILABLE EVIDENCE & TESTIMONY

2) RULE #2: IF NO EVIDENCE OR TESTIMONY IS AVAILABLE TO FAIRLY PROVE OR DISPROVE THE ACCOUNT THEN THE CONCLUSION IS INCONCLUSIVE!]

C) CONCLUSION

IV) THE GENESIS CHAPTER 2 ACCOUNT DOES NOT CONTRADICT THE GENESIS CHAPTER 1 ACCOUNT, NOR PROVIDE ANY ILLOGICAL ACCOUNT AS SOME CONTEND

A) OBJECTORS ALLEGE THAT THERE IS NO INTENDED TRANSITION AND CONTINUATION BETWEEN CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO - THAT IT IS THE IRRECONCIABLE WORK OF TWO DIFFERENT AUTHORS. BUT THERE IS A CLEAR TRANSITION AND A CLEAR CONTINUITY BETWEEN GENESIS CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 - THE CONSISTENT, NON-CONTRADICTORY WORK OF ONE AUTHOR

1) (Gen 2:1-3) GENESIS 2:1-3 (AS WELL AS GEN 2:4a EXAMINED BELOW

)

ACTUALLY CONCLUDE CHAPTER 1. VERSES 1 AND 2 STIPULATE THE COMPLETION OF GOD'S CREATION WORK BY THE 7TH DAY. VERSE 3 BLESSES THAT 7TH DAY AND SANCTIFIES IT TO COMMEMORATE THE CESSATION OF HIS CREATION WORK

2) (Gen 2:4a) THE HEBREW WORD TRANSLITERATED "TOLEDOTHS," RENDERED "GENERATIONS" IN THE SENSE OF "ACCOUNTS OF" IS THE PIVOTAL WORD IN GENESIS 2:4a WHICH - BY WAY OF A SUMMARY STATEMENT - CONCLUDES THE CONTEXT OF THE SIX DAYS OF CHAPTER ONE - AFTER WHICH CHAPTER TWO BEGINNING WITH GEN 2:4b TURNS TO DETAILS OF WHAT HAD ALREADY OCCURRED IN CHAPTER ONE

3) (Gen 2:4b) THE SECOND PHRASE OF GENESIS 2:4, (GEN 2:4b), REFERS TO THE DAY IN THE SENSE OF THE TIME OF THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION DELINEATED IN GENESIS CHAPTER ONE. HENCE GEN 2:4b MUST BE READ AS THE ACTUAL BEGINNING OF GENESIS CHAPTER TWO. THE VERSES PRECEDING GEN 2:4b ARE PART OF GENESIS CHAPTER ONE

B) (Gen 2:4b) THE NAMES FOR GOD DIFFERING BETWEEN CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO BEGINNING AT GEN 2:4b INDICATE A CONTEXT CHANGE NOT A CONTRADICTION OR A CHANGE IN AUTHORS, AS SOME CONTEND. THE NAME CHANGE SIGNIFIES AND CORROBORATES THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER TWO TO BE AT GEN 2:4b

C) CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS ARE ALLEGED BY MANY COMMENTATORS TO BE TWO CONTRADICTORY ACCOUNTS OF CREATION. ACCORDING TO THE FIRST ACCOUNT MAN AND WOMAN WERE CREATED TOGETHER AS THE CROWN AND CLIMAX OF CREATION, AFTER THE BIRDS AND ANIMALS; WHEREAS THEY ALLEGE THAT ACCORDING TO CHAPTER TWO THE CREATION OF MAN IS PRECEDED BY THE CREATION OF ALL THE ANIMALS AND BIRDS WHILE THE CREATION OF WOMAN FOLLOWED THEIR CREATION. BUT THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION IN THE ORDER OF CREATION BETWEEN GENESIS CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO. CHAPTER TWO PROVIDES MORE DETAIL, BUT IT DOES NOT CONTRADICT CHAPTER ONE

1) (Gen 2:8-9) JEHOVAH GOD PLANTED A GARDEN IN EAST EDEN, SET ADAM IN IT, CAUSED EVERY TREE THAT IS BEAUTIFUL OR GOOD FOR FOOD TO GROW THERE, AND PLANTED IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL - THEREBY CREATING ADDITIONAL VEGETATION AFTER ADAM WAS FORMED. BUT THERE IS NO IMPLICATION IN GENESIS THAT GOD WOULD BE THROUGH CREATING VEGETATION BY THE END OF DAY THREE.

a) [Compare Gen 1:11-13]:

b) [Compare Gen 1:26-31]:

c) [Compare Gen 2:7]:

d) [Compare Gen 2:8-9 Hebrew interlinear]:

e) [Compare Gen 3:22]:

2) (Gen 2:18-25) JEHOVAH GOD DELARED, "IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO BE ALONE, I DO MAKE TO HIM AN HELPER - AS HIS COUNTERPART." IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THIS, GOD FORMS EVERY ANIMAL OF THE FIELD, AND EVERY BIRD OF THE HEAVENS AND BRINGS THEM INTO THE MAN TO NAME. THEREBY CREATING ADDITIONAL ANIMALS AND BIRDS AFTER ADAM WAS FORMED. BUT THERE IS NO IMPLICATION IN GENESIS THAT GOD WOULD BE THROUGH CREATING ANIMALS AND BIRDS UNTIL AFTER DAY SIX WAS OVER. AND IN THE PROCESS OF NAMING THE ANIMALS, ADAM DID NOT FIND A HELPER - A COUNTERPART OF HIS OWN. WHEREUPON GOD CAUSED A DEEP SLEEP TO FALL ON ADAM, TOOK ONE OF HIS RIBS, CLOSED UP THE FLESH; AND GOD BUILDS UP THE RIB INTO A WOMAN, BRINGS HER INTO THE MAN. ADAM SAID, "THIS ONE IS BONE OF MY BONE AND FLESH OF MY FLESH; THIS ONE WILL BE CALLED WOMAN, FOR SHE WAS TAKEN FROM MAN." WHEREUPON CAME THE END OF GOD'S CREATION WORK, JUST AS ACCOUNTED FOR IN GENESIS CHAPTER ONE

a) [Gen 1:20-31]:

D) DIFFERENCES IN STYLE BETWEEN GENESIS CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO DEMAND NEITHER DIFFERENT AUTHORS, NOR CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS, NOR THE CONCLUSION THAT THE BIBLE IS NOT RELIABLE

E) OBJECTORS CLAIM THAT ADAM COULD NOT HAVE NAMED EVERY LIVING CREATURE IS ANSWERED: THE BIBLE INDICATES THAT ONLY CERTAIN ANIMALS WERE BROUGHT TO ADAM, NOT EVERY CREATURE

GENESIS CHAPTER 3