The Beginning of God's Creation

THE PURPOSE OF GOD’S CREATION: PART 2

Blog Post Date:  10-26-2019

The intent of this planned series of articles is to illustrate the creation purpose of God.  Why did God create the heavens and the earth?  What was His purpose and what was His ultimate goal?  The Creator is Omniscient and timeless.  There is no past, present, and future with God.  Thus, He knows all things before they occur (in our manner of thinking), which means that God knew that Eve would be tempted and Adam would sin; and the result of that original sin upon the historical events for the past 6000 years. 

What is God

Any attempt to define or understand God is mostly doomed to utter failure.  God is completely incomprehensible to any human mind.  Scripture rightfully claims that no one has seen God.  God is spirit.  Not “a” spirit but “the” spirit because He is the only spirit.

He is not somewhere, He is everywhere or perhaps nowhere because “where’s” were nonexistent until God created it or them.  Everything seen and unseen is God and God is everything because he created everything, even angels. 

For this reason and through the writings of Dr. Stephen Jones, I have come to the opinion there is no literal three part Godhead aka the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  By the way, the concept of a triune Godhead was not conceived until the 4^th century AD.  God is the Son of God and God is the Holy Spirit.  They are both part of the ultimate spirit of God.  As God extracted the female gender from Adam, the Son of God was somehow isolated or separated from the spirit of God and appeared as a human at the beginning of the first century. 

You may call me a heretic but that is becoming my personal opinion even though the proper words to adequately explain do not seem to exist in my brain if they exist at all.  In other words, Jesus is God, but He is not a separate God.

Creation

Let’s assume, for lack of a better term, that at some point (time is not an actual factor) that the spirit of God decided to create mankind.  According to the Genesis record, He created a planet and placed this planet in the midst of a vast (from a human perspective) universe.  On this planet He created various linages and types of plants and animals and lastly He created a human male.  From this male, God extracted the female gender of a woman.  There are only two genders – male and female.  The original Adam was both male and female.

The difference between humans and animals is that animals were supposedly created male and female individually but for humans the male was created from the dust of the earth and the female was extracted from the male.  Thus the first male and female were originally “one flesh” and thereafter males and females were to become attached to each other and become “one flesh” which was to be called a marriage.

From:  The Logos, Part 4 By Dr. Stephen Jones:  Aug 26, 2019

From the beginning, the purpose of creation was to bring about heaven’s duplicate in a physical dimension. The earth in particular was to be a mirror image, reflecting the glory of heaven on a new level.

Adam’s sin did not nullify God’s purpose, nor did it cause God to fail. His intention was to fill the whole earth with His glory, so that all of creation praises Him, and His purpose will succeed. Sin only caused a temporary delay in time. Sin did not take God by surprise, for God is all-knowing, and we know that He had already built in the solution to sin even before the sin occurred.

Creation was, in effect, heaven coming to earth—pictured as a cosmic marriage in Revelation 21:1, 2. The marriage principle was to take two and make them one by the law of identification and unity.

Since God is omniscient, He foreknew that sin (violation of the law) would occur which would require a second Adam (Jesus Christ) after 4000 years to pay the penalty of the sin of the first man called Adam.  Much can be postulated concerning the God-Man called Jesus Christ, but that will be a later subject. 

John 1:1-5 NET In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. (2) The Word was with God in the beginning. (3) All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. (4) In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. (5) And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it (did not comprehend it).

John 1:1 states that Jesus is the Logos or Word.  The Word created all things and has always been with God.  Attempt to explain that concept.  It is said that the term, “Logos” or “Word” is used to represent the presence of God when He is manifested on the earth in some manner.

John 1:14 NET Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory…..

Those not believing that Jesus Christ pre-existed from or before the creation event will consider the Logos or Word to be an “It” rather than a “Him”.  However, this particular belief creates even more issues and does not solve any problems that can be rightfully viewed or seen.

John1:18 states that Jesus was “the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father.” This establishes the deity of Christ while maintaining His distinction from the Father Himself. As an agent of the Father, when one sees Jesus Christ, one sees the Father. When one accepts the message of one who is sent, he receives also the sender of the message.

John 1:18 NET No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

If you were asked:  “How could the infinite Creator of the Universe who exists beyond all dimensions of our finite existence walk among His creation, make covenants with them, appear to them in clouds and fire, go to battle for them, bless them, curse them, and redeem them?”  What would you say?  “The Memra.”

1 Corinthians 15:45-49 NET (45) So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living person"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (46) However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual. (47) The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven. (48) Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly. (49) And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Memra is an Aramaic term related to the Hebrew word, (אמר), pronounced amair, which means word, decree, or speech. Sometimes, the Hebrew word (דבר), pronounced debair, is used instead of memra, which also means word, as well as matter, thing, and issue.

More than just the words of our Creator God, Memra (and sometimes Dibber) convey God’s many manifestations and expressions in His creation through His Words.

Colossians 1:15 NET He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation…..

The Creation

Again, it can be asked, was the Biblically written creation of Adam an actual event?  Some say “yes” and some say “no”.  For our present purpose we will claim that “yes” Adam was a creation of God.  “Adam” appears in the genealogy of Christ written by Luke, and Paul uses the name several times and he (Paul) apparently believes that Adam was a creation of God.

After the creation of Adam and Eve, a sin was committed.  The length of human lifespan prior to the beginning of the sin is unknown.  It could have been days or several years.  This afore known sin immediately set the stage back to a so-called zero state.  Adam and Eve supposedly lost their glorified embodiment and became essentially normal appearing human beings (for what that is worth).

Was the first sin actually the eating of the apple?  Could be, but it could also imply certain metaphoric attributes.  Paul states that the first person (called Adam) was an earthly one (made from the earth) and was thus destined to commit some type of legal aggression, unlike the Christ, who was from heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:47-48 NET (47) The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven. (48) Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.

The Watchers

Next, according to the scripture, we are presented with a mass appearance of Watcher angels and their supposed entanglement with human beings.  Of course, God knows everything (in advance), and He knew (in advance) this would occur.  The current question is WHY?  And there is no logical answer.  Perhaps these past events occurred as expected.  Perhaps one day we will know the complete answer.

The Watchers and their antics apparently taught men to make armaments and women to coat themselves with various types of makeup and to appear much younger and more beautiful than they actually were.  These particular teachings have endured through the ages and remain with us at our current age.

According to hints in the book of Genesis and through the first sixteen chapters of Enoch, the Watchers also spawned various types of Nephilim.  The first batch of siblings were considered quite tall with the remainder, although tall by today’s standards, were not quite as large in length.  Makeup has continued in popularity, even the Amazonians have particular types of bodily endowment.

Regardless of the reason the Watcher’s exploits were allowed to continue, there eventually came a point when God had enough and eliminated it (for a short time) by destroying all but eight people who were placed aboard an Ark i.e. a large boat.  Again, the Watcher influence was eliminated for a short time, however, within the boat, one of the wives i.e. most likely Ham’s wife, contained some Watcher DNA and it began once again, with God knowing it in advance (always remember that God knows everything prior to its actual occurrence).

Not being an expert on the workings of DNA in the human body, it is merely an educated guess that Ham’s wife contained Watcher DNA.  By eliminating all bodies that were descendants of Jesus Christ (Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Mrs. Shem, Ham, and Japheth) that would leave only Mrs. Ham as the possible connection. 

Noah cursed Canaan rather than Ham (the perpetrator of the deed regarding Noah’s tent – Genesis 9:21-25).  Was this due to Nephilim tendencies showing within the body of Canaan?  That is as good a guess as any.  Again, the exact answer is unknown at the current time.

Nimrod was a descendant of Ham/Canaan.  It is interesting to note that although Nimrod is listed as the founder of Babel (or Babylon), nowhere is he listed as being a part of the building of the so-called tower of Babel and God’s scattering of the common language into many.  It may be that Nimrod was instrumental as to the building of the tower of Babel but his name is not to be found in the short descriptive summary (at least in the Bible).

Abraham (Abram)

After providing the names of the descendants of Noah, along with the tower of Babel description, the storyline moves on to Abraham.  He (Abraham) was supposed to have a son to carry on his linage and to adhere to the prophecy of God but Sarah was supposedly barren.  Abraham and Sarah took matters into their own hands by gifting Abraham with Sarah’s maid, Hagar, as a wife, and she had a son named Ishmael.  About 12 years later Sarah blessed by God, conceived and had a son who was given the name Isaac.

After the birth of Isaac, God instructed Abraham to perform a type of covenant marker which today is known as a circumcision.  This procedure has baffled me on occasion.  Why would God require it for the house of Israel and no one else?  Today any male can be circumcised with very few medical complications.

At age forty, Isaac married Rebekah.  Isaac was sixty when Rebekah gave birth to the conjugal twins named Esau and Jacob.  After a hunting expedition, Esau traded the Fruitfulness Mandate for a good meal (or red peas), although Esau had not been given either the Fruitfulness or the Dominion Mandates.  The Dominion Mandate was later stolen by Jacob by replacing Esau in his blind father’s tent during the supposedly transfer of Mandates.

Several years later, Jacob became the husband of four wives with a total of twelve sons (and one listed daughter named Dinah).  There may have been other daughters that are not named.  For some particular reason, the Bible names very few females.  Joseph and Benjamin, the final sons, were birthed by Rachel during Jacob’s later age, prior to their stay in Egypt.

When Joseph was a teenager, he was sold to a group of Ishmaelites by some of his older brothers.  He later was sold to Potipfar, a captain of the guard under Pharaoh.  At the age of 30, due to his knowledge of Pharaoh’s dreams, Joseph became the second ruler of the Egyptian Empire.  Meanwhile, Jacob’s family suffered from a famine and traveled to Egypt in search of food and came in contact with Joseph who offered them forgiveness for their past deeds.

Jacob’s family remained in Egypt.  After a few hundreds of years they became the enslaved group known as the Hebrews (or Israelites).  Under the leadership of Moses, a type of Christ, the Hebrew people were allowed to leave Egypt.  Their journey was always troubled due to their lack of faith in God’s grace.

They soon came to a point of entering into the “promised land” but voted against it due to the remaining descendants of the Nephilim giants located in the area.  The people were not allowed to enter and spent the next forty years in the desert (wilderness) until all the original living people that voted against entry had died.

Joshua and Caleb were the only two individuals of the original people that were allowed to remain within the new group who entered the land.  It has been said that the people’s refusal to enter at the original entry time point allowed them only destructive measures to ensure their survival in the new land.  Fighting with the sword and killing the inhabitants paved the way for their new life in the “promised land”.