For this commentary, I use the eyes of a technician to understand the Way of God. My eyes see things in a different manner than most because of my engineering background. My entire career was about invention and turning the things in my mind to real things. I now use that perception for how the “Tekton” God might have done things. Please stay with me as I seek to understand the high degree of creativity of our awesome God!
Strangely the English word “kind”
is used mostly in the creation of the heaven and earth (Gen 1). It is not used
in the seeding and growing of the Garden of God in Genesis chapter two.
It is not used again until chapter six wherein the different kinds were brought
onto the ark of Noah.
First let me explain the creation of the heaven. In chapter one man was created in the Image of God. That “Image” was a “shadow,” or phantom. Then in chapter two, God took that invisible Image and constructed flesh from the ground. Early in chapter two something is revealed:
Thus, the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (Gen 2:1-3)
To be honest, I have had it
wrong; both the heaven and earth were made during the first event. What was
made was the “lofty” and the “firm” things. They were the ingredients that God
would grow two different gardens.
Chapter two is about growth.
Living things grow. It seems that chapter one was when the cosmos was seeded,
and chapter two was when it became a “garden.”
The soul of the male and female
of one distinct kind was made in six stages, ending in rest (i.e., the six
processes coming to equilibrium). Part one
was God generating the seed and part two, God sowing the seed. The seeds
of the kinds were created before the foundation of the world when the Garden
was sown.
The different kinds were
literally “portioned out” as the Hebrew word min means. Seed is first mentioned
(several times) in chapter one, but not in chapter two. The word “seed” is zera’
in the Hebrew, one meaning which is “semen verile” — semen with the properties
that would produce an adult male
God had said, “Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the
waters” or figuratively, the semen from the semen (ibid).
One of the first things that God
did was to divide the types of semen — the heavenly from the earthly, as it
turned out. That was perhaps the occasion when two realms were created with the
seed for each, respectively. Angels and men were possibly divided at that time,
each having the same form but different substances.
Dividing the waters from the
waters was perhaps the “election” before the foundation of the world, if
that is true. After that, the story of the angels was dropped, and God focused on
mankind. Much went on in the heavens while earth was in formation. The angels would
have been planted in their own “garden” in heaven while man was planted in a
very similar garden of firm material.
The “firmament” is speculative.
Some believe it is a cosmic dome. I believe that the firmament was a tool to
use to separate the firm things from the unfirm things. (In science that
compares to “Young’s Slit Experiment” where a cloud of light is divided into
waves and particles.
The firmament was using a process,
and the process was dividing the kinds from the kinds. The first division sorted
out the man-seed from the angelic seed.
God divided the DNA of both
creatures before the foundation of the world. Human beings were the chosen
seed to grow in the Garden of God in the ground.
Then later in chapter one, the
seed was divided further wherein God made all the other kinds. He used seed in
the manner of mankind’s but sorted theme further to make the vegetable and
animal kingdoms.
The seed of Adam was glorious. It
would have been the Image of God. The phantom description of that Image describes
the chromosomes of God very well… God without flesh. Imagine a Creature without
flesh but with chromosomes in the image of a body. Chromosomes are colorless
and every nuclear cell of the body has male chromosomes. Hence, the paternal
aspect of God, the “Father.”
In chapter one, that “apparition”
was Adam. God further divided the semen (and the DNA within it) and made the
female separate but alike beings. (Mitochondrial DNA would come later as well
as bacterial DNA, so be patient.)
In chapter two, God took that
phantom-like Image — the genome of Adam — and kneaded it into the clay: “The
Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). God had used His
seed, made the seed of man, and then put each seed in a material “shell” of
sorts — the totality of the chromosomes of man in bodily form. (Our it could be
that God put one of His own seeds in the chromosomal cell.) The latter makes more
sense because the next occurrence is this, “The Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom he had formed” (Gen 2:8). Eastward
meant before time existed.
It seems that chapter one is more
about generating the seed of man and chapter two the planting and growing of
the seed of man in the Garden of God. Once Adam was grown, he named all the
other creatures, but one remained missing — the female of the kind. It was at
this time that God portioned out the female from the male, creating a
division of mankind; “And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He
a woman, and brought her unto the man” (Gen 2:22).
It was not a rib! It was
literally something from the side of Adam
In my book, On the Origin of
Man and the Universe, I speculated that since it does not appear discretely
in humans, that the God-chromosome is YY and that Adam’s phantom, or soul, is
the YY-chromosome while the material form of Adam was XX, and when joined in the
Garden, Adam was a hybrid being with XY-chromosomes. Since the female was from
the male, and not God, then her chromosomal identity was XX. Who knows? but
that does make sense!
The kinds were from God. He was
all of Existence in the beginning. The “beginning” was not the beginning of
time, but literally of “rank one” (ibid). All the seed came from the “side”
of God from whose belly flows living waters. The prophet Jeremiah referred to
God as, “the fountain of living waters,” meaning that all things are portioned
out (the kinds) from Him. It is not that God is in all existence, but that from
God came all things in existence.
From God came the kinds. From His
side all things were poured out then divided. Mankind came from God who first
made the “seed” put it in a shell, planted it, and from that one seed, all of
mankind grew.
The other kinds came from a very
different seed except the angelic kingdom. They were never planted in the
Garden of God on Earth but grew separately in the Garden of God in Paradise.
They were surely gardens much alike but in different realms.
By the time of Noah, the angelic
kingdom came to this world and things changed drastically. Hence, in chapter
six another kind poured out and they were sucked down the “drain,” so to speak.
Note that the male came from God
directly and the female came from the male. There was no occasion where God
divided the seed of Adam from the seed of animals. Mankind is not of animals
but were of God. Later, it shall be shown that the next division was the beasts
from Issa, the woman. Genesis chapter three is about the further
division of the kinds. It was an improper division not of God. This new kind
was not original but mutated. The Garden of God had been encroached upon by an
alien creature, not from another planet, but alien to God and the firm things.
The origin of Adam from the seed of God is demonstrated in the graphic below.)
Think now about Neanderthal “man”
until we meet again.
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