Everything Was Very Good
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds — livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
(Genesis 1:24-31)
God had formed the earth and the plant kingdom, and the universe for the earth, and had created the creatures of the sea and the birds of the air. With the same power, he created the animals that live on the earth. The staggering diversity of animals is such that the estimate of the known number of species is from 3 to 30 million, with 97% of them invertebrates, and 3% vertebrates.
The pinnacle of creation is man, whom the Creator made in His image, after His likeness. The pre-existent Christ who was there at creation as the second person of the Trinity became the pattern for man. Man as male and female, with their attributes of relationship, community, and intimacy is a reflection of the relationship and unity within the Godhead. Maleness and femaleness is mentioned first with reference to man, and not to the rest of the animal or plant kingdoms. With man, sex is not primarily biological as it is with the rest of creation, where the sex of plants and animals is not even mentioned.
Man and animals were to feed on fruit and vegetation. God gave dominion to man over all the earth, as another component of the image of God in man. Everything was very good.
Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
(Genesis 1:24-31)
God had formed the earth and the plant kingdom, and the universe for the earth, and had created the creatures of the sea and the birds of the air. With the same power, he created the animals that live on the earth. The staggering diversity of animals is such that the estimate of the known number of species is from 3 to 30 million, with 97% of them invertebrates, and 3% vertebrates.
The pinnacle of creation is man, whom the Creator made in His image, after His likeness. The pre-existent Christ who was there at creation as the second person of the Trinity became the pattern for man. Man as male and female, with their attributes of relationship, community, and intimacy is a reflection of the relationship and unity within the Godhead. Maleness and femaleness is mentioned first with reference to man, and not to the rest of the animal or plant kingdoms. With man, sex is not primarily biological as it is with the rest of creation, where the sex of plants and animals is not even mentioned.
Man and animals were to feed on fruit and vegetation. God gave dominion to man over all the earth, as another component of the image of God in man. Everything was very good.
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