This chapter is the one that states God as Creator of all. Not only did He create all things, He designed all things. He designed how they would work; some things constant as the sun rising and lowering every 24 hours; some things we can't see with the naked eyes like the building blocks that make other things or that control things such as atoms, amoebas, and DNA.He designed nature to be a certain way so that "the cycle of life" is a harmonic beauty to behold. For example, the flower attracts the bees that help pollinate the flowers wich help the bee produce honey that others eat as food. The plant is eaten by an animal which also eats the seeds which, when the animal deficates helps to fertilize the seeds into new plants.Everything in nature is in God's sweet harmony of function.
The first item He made is light. Realize that this is not the item which conducts to make the light, such as electricity or a light bulb, or even a star. Light is that item which is being produced. If you were an inventor, would you not produce first what would help to build other things? Even for those that live in darkness?
Everything that God created seems to be for us; Mankind. I say this because we are te last thing created. Were we the last because something had to be last or were we last because all other things were made for us?
He also created living things where they could reproduce and multiply by themselves.
Man. He made man in His image to be like Himself. But God said like ourselves, as in plural. When God speaks as ourselves, wo does that include and entail? God is used in the singular when He is creating on different days, so it's not gods! So for whom is God speaking of? Could it be the many titles He holds?; Creator, Sustainer, Lord, etc., in which He should of said, "to be like myselfs instead of ourselves?" Let us hold this question's answer until further scriptures are read.
What is the image we are to hold? Is the image, "masters over all life?" I believe this is the image we are to portray.God is Master over the fish in the sea, birds in the sky, all livestock, wild animals, and small animals."
A thought: Do the animals for which we are allowed to be masters give us a mirror image of how God masters over mankind?...those who live by the sea, those who live in the mountains, everyone else, those that are wild, and tose that are weak?
Verse 28 is the first time we see the word, "bless." The verse states that "God blessed them and told them..." So what does this word mean? What goes in to being "blessed" by God? I would say ere the word means "approval", God's best wishes...His love and joy.
Our first command comes in this same verse. We are to reproduce. But not only reproduce, but fill the entire Earth and subdue it. Subdue means to "bring under subjection."
Verse 29 looks as though we started out as vegetarians as we were given seed-bearing plants and fruit to eat. But it also looks as though the animals and birds were vegetarians as well.
God was proud of what He made as everything He made was excellent. After each day of the six days of creation, He would see that it was good.
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