Whether creation happened physically in 7 days, I agree is not the point. To me all of Genesis (first chapters especially) are some how representative of salvation of all (beginning to end)
I read and have so many questions that I don't understand. Here is just a few:
I find interesting that in verse one we read:
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Then the rest of the chapter goes into the remaining days of creation, yet at the start of chapter 2 we read
Gen 2:1 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
I think there is so much symbolism in Genesis early chapters, it would blow our minds if we could understand.
Just as in verse 2, the earth was waste and void, and then light came.
??light of the world? Jesus
Light verses dark; life/death, law/grace, Day/Night???
Land/earth and Sea (??called and rest of all mankind???), heavens
chosen??
herb yielding seeds, they'll know us by our fruits and those not chosen by their fruits (fruits only come from seed bearing plants)
Beasts of the earth?, our carnal nature a beast??
7th day of rest, Christ is our rest
After eating of the forbidden fruit, there eyes and ears were opened fo their nakedness and they heard God in the garden?? the law leads us to Christ, ears to hear, eyes to see our nakedness???
Being made in His image, once know good and evil;
Gen 3:22 And Jehovah God said, Behold, the
man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever-
If anyone has been given eyes to see a lot of the symbolism/similitudes in Genesis 1-6, I would love to listen.
thanks.