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Some of the points on Genesis 1-

Light before sun
v3
God creates light before the sun
I think that is so amazing. He didn't need the sun to bring forth light. He spoke it and there it was
It wasn't until day four that sun actually existed

Separating the waters
v 6-7
God separates the waters and calls the expanse "sky" in one version...I read "heaven" in another.
"Sky" I can wrap my head around...."heaven?" still working on that one
But perhaps the waters above were part of the atmospheric layer that protects our earth from the sun's harmful rays
So even before God creates the sun, He creates something to protect us from it.
Protection...He truly does protect us, look at my notes on verse 22- was he protecting Adam and Eve from a dreadful eternity?

God loves reproduction
I love this thought that came to my head
"God loves sex"...yep, that's what came to your head when you read that, didn't it?
I truly believe God loves sex, He created it as a gift after two people make a promise to God that they will love each other and be selfless and etc. Of course God loves sex...it's wonderful, it's pleasurable and He gave it to us

But really, what I mean here is reproduction in the means of something coming from something else
God could create people with his own hands, (and He does)...but what I mean is, He can create them without having it be a beautiful, wonderful growing experience in a wonderful secret place inside a woman. He could just whip up a batch of people and not involve us at all.
But God chooses to.
God loves to create, but He allows reproduction by the permission of His plan
He is in charge, he is creating, but using us to do so...using trees, using animals...reproduction
v. 11
He creates "plants yielding seed", "trees with fruit with seed"
Even stars get old, die out and make new stars

Be Fruitful and Multiply to only some?
v22 To sea monsters and winged birds "Be fruitful and multiply"
v 28 To man God says "Be fruitful and multiply"
But as I read, I did not see that God commands the beasts of the earth, the cattle and creepers to "Be fruitful and multiply"
Why do you think God specifically called the sea creatures and the birds and man to multiply and left out the other guys?

Gold at Pishon
Okay, another point that made me go ...hmmm
There the river in the garden of Eden splits into 4
There is mention of what land each of the 4 Rivers surround...but only for the Pishon River does scripture make reference to gold

No Names until the Fall
Adam is called "The Man"
and Adam gives names to the beasts, the birds, the cattle...
what about the creepers?
Adam did not get his name until after he sinned.

v22
"Man has become like one of us"...confirming the Trinity
and now he might take from the Tree of Life and eat and live forever
Because sin has entered the picture, Adam is no longer pure and living forever might mean forever in sin, damnation. Which this would then separate him from God. So perhaps God puts the flaming sword and Cherubim to prevent Adam from returning to Eden and eating from the Tree of Life...because God is lovingly protecting him.
Maybe it wasn't necessarily driving him out b/c Adam doesn't "deserve" to live in Eden, or not necessarily all punishment here, but b/c of the possibility that Adam, falling to temptation again, would eat the fruit from the Tree of Life and be separated from his creator. Because God loved Adam. God loved, adored Adam.

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