Ok, I have a question and my outlet has been closed.
I have been thinking about Genesis 1, so the question will follow with commentary. I would also like to ask When was Creation "finished"?
Has God limited Himself to just the first 6 days, or can creation continue? If there are no signs that creation goes on (or are there?), does that mean God is hands off now?
Commentary:
G-d started things rolling with our earth and everything that was not our earth. There was no big bang, because that would imply chaos. The earth and the heavens were perfect, but had no form nor life nor G-d. Time had not even been instituted. There was water (H2O from now on).
Earth, heaven, H2O, and then came light. This light is not light, but G-d and knowledge. This is when G-d infused Himself into the creation. G-d separated the known from the unknown and called it day. This is logic. Time is not day and night. Day and night is the ability to know and to learn the unknown. It is the ability for the body to be awake and to rest. Could this be the literal interpretation of the literal first Day. This day consist of twelve hours to be and twelve hours to "rest" The brain never rest, but the body needs to.
The body takes a rest and then functions, thus the day starts in the evening and finishes in the evening. The second Day G-d separated H2O from the earth's H2O. This is the protective covering that would allow a perfect creation to exist in perfection.
The third day G-d left the H2O in one place and allowed dry land to appear. Scientifically the plates would be lifted up and they would have "rested" on the H2O. The viewable H2O is called Seas. Note that time and mountains were never mentioned. There is no sun, there are no stars, there is no rotation. There is no "space". Then right before the next day, G-d planted the grass, herbs, and trees, that contain "seed" in themselves.
He then set the rotation and put the stars and planets to distinguish between the
day and night. It was after the "fact" that they were used to distinguish between light and darkness. The sun, moon, and stars did not "start" time, but they were put in place to "enable" signs, seasons, days, and years. IMO they were designed for that purpose, but not necessarily used (the 4th day) for that purpose. Just now, the sun was sending it's rays, and the flora was providing carbon monoxide and H2O was providing the balance needed to sustain life. BTW, O was in abundance also.
The twelth hour of the 5th day "saw" a universe, flora, and G-d added fowl and sea creatures. I would like to point out, still no mountains, and no "passage" of time.
Why is there a need for a passage in time? IMO there were not even seasons until after the Flood. Now it says that the celestial bodies were created for that purpose, but signs were not needed in the earth at that time either. Just because that is their purpose does not mean that they were used that way upon creation.
The sixth day, we see the addition of beast and Adam. G-d did not call him Adam in the 1st chapter and the next verse shows us that G-d finished the heavens and the earth and all the HOST in them. It never says that G-d stopped creating. When Jesus said it is finished, His death was completed, but His "work" had just begun. No offence intended on the NT reference. I am not even sure if the same word is used, but as an English speaker, that is the record I have. Host is an unique term. It does seem to apply that nothing else was needed. Was time needed? In the end of "time" it has been prophecied that time will be no more. In a perfect reality one does not need to exist in time. To me it seems that time is a curse. Time is said to "March On" and unless one gets in "step" with time they will be left behind.
Why is time so deterministic? Why are we so driven by time? Why does time play so importantly in the "lack of a G-d" mindset? Will the universe cease if we stop "counting" time? Will the rotation around stars and galaxies dissappear if time stops? Why can we not travel faster than light, but yet we are so beholden to the passage of time, and at the same time have trouble relating time and space to each other? Did G-d even use hours the first 6 six days? Does it matter? I say 24 hours exist now, no need for anything different then. I say no it does not matter, because I do not think that time was even an issue.
Some Jews have even theorized that the 7th day has not happened, and that it was figurative but yet commanded as an observance of things to come. Not to mention the practicality of a day of rest. Everything was perfect and the "image" of G-d, man probably did not even need rest other than the period of light and darkness that was given. G-d appeared and communed with Adam during the day and Man rested during the night. There was no decay. Why did the laws we have in science today have to even apply before Adam made the choice to disobey G-d? Has it even occured to modern man, that time (as we know it) may not have even started until G-d "cursed" His creation and
decay did enter the picture?
Did Adam name all the animals on day 8? I say that there were many periods of night and day even before Eve. I also propose that there were many periods of night and day before the serpent "chatted" with Eve. How long does it take for one to get a reputation for being subtle? Was that an instantanious knowledge? At what point in the night and day rotation did Satan rise up in rebellion? Why did G-d not reveal this to us? If we knew the end from the beginning would we not just grow lazy and not strive for better things? Is time the slave master that keeps hounding us at every turn? I propose that a lot of obedience and filling the earth did happen before that fateful night and day period that created the need for time to even exist. So G-d did not create time but He instituted it for His purpose. It was not a mean institution, but a necessary one.
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