Genesis 1:24-25 Creeping Things and Beasts Day 6
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Verses 24–25
We have here the first part of the sixth day’s work. The sea was, the day before, replenished with its fish, and the air with its fowl; and this day were made the beasts of the earth, the cattle, and the creeping things that pertain to the earth.
Here, as before, 1. The Lord gave the word; he said, Let the earth bring forth, not as if the earth had any such prolific virtue as to produce these animals, or as if God resigned his creating power to it; but,
He also did the work; he made them all after their kind, not only of divers shapes, but of divers natures, manners, food, and fashions—some to be tame about the house, others to be wild in the fields—some living upon grass and herbs, others upon flesh—some harmless, and others ravenous—some bold, and others timorous—some for man’s service, and not his sustenance, as the horse—others for his sustenance, and not his service, as the sheep—others for both, as the ox—and some for neither, as the wild beasts
In all this appears the manifold wisdom of the Creator.
1:24–25 The dry ground and vegetation were created on the third day (v. 9), and this sixth day corresponds to it by the creation of animal and man to populate the land and feed on its herbage (vv. 11, 30)
As with the creation of vegetation, the land mediates the command of God to produce land creatures (“Let the land produce living creatures”).
Like the sea creatures in v. 20, these are identified as “living creatures” (nepeš ḥayyâ). The animals are not explicitly said to be blessed, but we may assume that they too receive God’s blessing
As with the fish and fowl (vv. 20–22), God set reproductive parameters (“according to their kinds”) for these creatures.
Day 3 brought about the environment (land and vegetation); day 6 brings about those beings (animals/humankind) who inhabit that environment (1:24–31)
Unlike the other days the sixth day is alone designated by the article: “the sixth day.” And when it is completed God evaluates only this day’s work as very good.
These two facts indicate the climactic nature of the sixth day.
A farther advance was made by the creation of terrestrial animals, all the various species of which are included in three classes
(1) cattle, the herbivorous kind capable of labor or domestication.
24. beasts of the earth—(2) wild animals, whose ravenous natures were then kept in check, and (3) all the various forms of
creeping things—from the huge reptiles to the insignificant caterpillars
“After its kind:” this refers to all three classes of living creatures, each of which had its peculiar species
consequently in v. 25, where the word of God is fulfilled, it is repeated with every class
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
This act of creation, too, like all that precede it, is shown by the divine word “good” to be in accordance with the will of God.
the microscopic world of creatures are not mentioned, but the categories are broad enough to include them.
Though the creation stories are fundamentally theological and not scientific, nothing in them is contradicted by modern scientific understanding.
Genesis insists that all the forms of life were created “after their kind” (1:11–12, 21, 24–25); that is, they did not evolve across species lines
The conclusion was: and God saw that it was good. Higher animals and man were both created on the same day. This accounts for the fact that man, in his physical makeup, is very similar to the physical makeup of the higher animals as far as the basic internal organs are concerned.
The differences lie in the spiritual nature of God-likeness and man’s conscious ability to know God not given to the higher animals.
Though the creation stories are fundamentally theological and not scientific, nothing in them is contradicted by modern scientific understanding.
THE DAY-AGE THEORY
Many argue that the six creative days of Genesis 1 involved millions of years, not literal twenty-four-hour days. This view is essential to the evolutionary hypothesis that requires long time periods for mutation and natural selection. However, the terms “evening” and “morning” suggest days of a normal length. Throughout the Old Testament the word “day” is never used figuratively when accompanied by a number. But whether they are interpreted as literal or figurative days, God fashioned the literary portrayal of his creation of the universe around six literal days. If something other than literal days is in view, then the text uses the term “day” as a figure of speech. Although normal word usage upholds the argument for literal days, the creation narrative’s literary form of elevated and poetic prose and the desire to correlate the days of creation with the long geological ages posited by science leave room for a figurative use of the word “day.”
Paradox of the plankton
Cambrian explosion
Latitudinal gradients in species diversity
Darwin's abominable mystery of Botany/plants. What is the exact evolutionary history of flowers and what is the cause of the apparently sudden appearance of nearly modern flowers in the fossil record?
It’s good to have the Bible’s unique perspective on the universe—that it is God-made and God-given. Genesis deals with the mighty process in a single chapter—and gets on to the main business of God’s purpose for humankind.
Satan is the archenemy of God. Satan is an incurable liar and a deceiver and the Bible says he’s the father of lies. Satan hates the truth of God. And he dominates the world that he rules with falsehood. In fact, Romans 1 says that civilization in general has exchanged the truth of God for the lie. In other words, the world lives under pervasive deception and falsehood. And Satan’s lies literally pervade all human thought, governing all intellectual work, all science, all philosophy, all sociology, all psychology and everything else.
Two great ideologies rule. No creator and no moral law. And that dispossesses man of any accountability.
there are two lies in particular that provide the basic paradigm for modern culture, two lies. Lie number one is that life is random.
second lie, truth is relative