Meditation on Genesis 1 & 2:

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  1. God Style:
     When I read Genesis 1, I stopped at "     The earth was without form and void" Gen 1:2 because I saw that God had a sequence in dealing with things that are different from our line; human beings always want to fill the emptiness then form the boarders or the space that they want to work in. For example, we want to fill the void in our hearts before trying to ask how we will fill it; we want to marry before we ask what it means to be married, to have kids before we know how we will grow them up, and to talk theology before even we know what theology do we have? Accordingly, I learned today from Genesis that formation comes before filling up; God formed the earth and then filled it up with his creation. He started even with non-organic creations before he went to the organic ones. He formed everything before Mankind got created.
  2. Roots of Freedom:

I also focused on the freedom God has given to Adam, which is driven by the verse, 

“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.” Gen 1: 26. I saw that God created Adam in his image. This image and being after God’s likeness is a core root for being free because God is a free entity, and whatever is in his likeness should be free as well; this freedom is also apparent when you continue the verse and see that God let us be dominion over everything because freedom creates responsibility, so I can define freedom according to this verse as “the ability to do with your choice what is needed to be done.”

 3. Creation theory:

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” I see that this verse is coming after verse 26 to show the contrast, as verse 26 showed how we will be like God, verse 27 came to say how we will be a little different from God so that we will be in the form of a male and female. However, this will not change our core in his image.

 4. Sin Epistemology:

“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Gen 2: 16-17. According to this verse, we can say that this is the first sin epistemological conversation that happened with mankind. And here I see that Adam is not innocent in the sense of a baby, as many preachers preach. Because the baby does not know the difference between right and wrong, but Adam knows after this verse. And we can see again that God framed Adam’s knowledge about him, then He filled it with the knowledge about sin as we discussed in point 1 about forming before filling. 

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