If anyone has been given eyes to see a lot of the symbolism/similitudes in Genesis 1-6, I would love to listen.
thanks.
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Rocky
There is a lot in the accounts of creation (and in the differences between the two accounts). This is only a ‘bit’ of it, and something that I already had written up…
Maybe it'll give you a place to start.
That first account of creation:Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And
the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And
God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and
God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
… and “the earth� was “without form� and void and “darkness� was upon the face of the deep…. Gen 1:26 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.
Gen 2:7 And 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.
Jer 4:22-23 For
my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and
they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good
they have no knowledge. I beheld
the earth, and, lo,
it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and
they had no light.
Deu 32:16-18 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,
and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Job 33:6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am
formed out of the clay.
Rom 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? God “moved upon� the face of the waters…. God said: “Let there be light�… Joh 14:18-20 I will not leave you comfortless:
I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more;
but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
At that DAY ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again
until Christ be FORMED in you,Rom 8:29-30 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate
to be conFORMED to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
God “divided� the light from the darkness… and called the light “Day� and the darkness “Night�Joh 11:10
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Mat 4:16 The people
which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in
the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Luk 1:79
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Joh 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying,
I am the light of the world: he that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Joh 12:46 I am come
a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should
not abide in darkness.
2Co 4:6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with darkness?
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath
called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1Th 5:4-8 But ye, brethren,
are not in darkness, that that DAY should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the
children of light, and the
children of the DAY: we are
not of the NIGHT, nor of darkness. Therefore
let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For
they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are
of the DAY, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Rom 13:12-14
The NIGHT is far spent, the DAY is at hand: let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on
the armour of light. Let us walk honestly,
as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
talking about New Jerusalem:Rev 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for
there shall be no night there.
Rev 22:5 And
there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.