I'm sorry this is coming to you at the end of the day, the past week and weekend were absolutely nuts, I had a paper due Sunday night that I got an extension on until tomorrow night due to the craziness, and so I am just now getting today's post out.
Genesis 2 is not a contradiction of Genesis 1, it does not describe an alternate creation account, but instead focuses on the creation man on the final day of creation. With the rest of creation, God spoke and the words of God brought about His creative will, but when it came to creating man, God was doing something even more amazing, making a being in His own image, and so when it came to creating man, God intentionally formed him. God did not speak man into existence, but formed him from the dust of the ground, and breathed the breath of life into him so that he became a living being.
God formed man in a way that no other part of creation came into being. Man was given life when the very breath of God filled his lungs. God made man in His own image and in doing so place a visible representation of Himself on earth to both rule and care for creation.
The paper I'm working on for tomorrow night is looking at two Old Testament passages and how they are used in the New Testament, and the central idea of the Old Testament passages is that the value and dignity of man comes from the fact that God has made him in His own image. Man has worth because God has given Him worth, and that worth comes from the fact that man is made in the image of God, and given life by the breath of God. No other part of creation has this distinction.
As beings made in the image of God, let us live with a sense of value and worth, drawn from the goodness of God.
Fight the lion, 1 Peter 5.1-11
TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!
No comments:
Post a Comment