Blog 2023-08-01
God probably wrote the first account of creation on tablets like he wrote the law on tablets for Moses. [1]
The introduction to the creation story is at the top of the first tablet. 1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The end of the story is told in two verses: 4 ¶ These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.
All six days of creation happened in one day. It happened in the day of the creation of the heavens and the earth before there were herbs and man. See Appendix X
As you read Genesis 1, count how many times "God said". There were ten commandments for creation, and ten commandments given to Moses, for men.
There is a difference between the two sets of commandments. When he commanded the light to be, it was. When he commanded the waters to part, they parted. But when he commanded men not to worship other gods, men did not obey him.
Everything in the universe obeys God except man.
