BIBLE LESSON 2

GENESIS 2

Here again is my interpretation of what the Bible is saying. My numbered paragraphs correspond with the Bible's verses.

1: This simply states that the heavens and the earth and everything in them were finished as stated in Genesis 1. Most of this chapter is repeating what was in the first.

God finished creating the earth, the heavens and all the living things on them, i.e., the earth and the heavens. I surmise now he populated the earth mainly for humans and the heavens for himself and his group, a nice place where they could look down on man to make sure they did what they were supposed to do. That was to populate their world and take care of the beasts, fowls and all the creatures of the sea. How disappointing this must have been. We have been too busy waging wars as taught us, filling our glutinous guts with the meat from the mistreated animals entrusted to our care.

Day Seven

2:-God ended his work and rested on the seventh day. Therefore, that indicates he did some work on the seventh day and then rested from all his work. When on that day did he stop to rest? Some say this is the eighth day. If God is a spirit, what need did he have to rest? Resting is for a physical being to rest his muscles. God had no form.

3:-This is where many get the idea that the Sabbath is ment to be holy, a day of rest. I never took it as a day of rest, not even when I was at the height of my religious spell back in the sixties. I wonder how many actually observe this. There is some controversy about this, but I will not go into that. That comes up in Exodus.

4:-I guess we are going back to the beginning again. These sounds like an interjection from the author reiterating what took place.

5:-more of the same and God forgot to water the garden so he conjured up a rain shower. It must be on the sixth day again. He had not jet created man. I guess he needed some water to mix with the dirt he used to form man.

6:-So now, it is watered.

7:-Now he is forming man, giving us more details. I assume this is the same man he created in Genesis 1;-7 when created both male and female in his own image.

8:-He left the newly formed man laying there in the dirt while he went east of E'den to make a special garden. I guess E,den is where everyone else he/they created lived.(Let us make man in our image.) He wanted to build a special garden just for his creation of A'dam. Then he put the man there.

9:-Here is where God plants all his favorite trees and his two special touch-and-you-die trees. The ones he uses to tempt his newly created man and woman. Thus far, he created everything including A'dam out of the dirt.

Gen:10-14, I believe this is merely an attempt to confuse and yet temp the greedy. Some of these rivers are nonexistent or lost in time. There is too much controversy for this ignorant hillbilly to attempt an explanation. Of what interest would a couple have in precious metals, stones and such? Other than buying some clothes or adorning their bodies with gold studs and pretty stones, they have all they need.

This is a case where the author is putting in too much unnecessary information.

15:-For the second time, God put man in the garden and told him to care for it.

16:-Eat freely of any tree in the garden.

17:-In my opinion, God tells an untruth. Just do not eat from my special trees for you will die on that day. At the least, it is an idle threat.

18:-I guess God felt bad about telling Ad'am a story so, he decided to give him a playmate, which he said two or three times already.

19:-First, he created fowls that fly and beast of the field and brought them so Ad'am could name them. He must have gotten tired of naming them all in his original creation.

20:-After Ad'am practiced his speech naming all the animals, because it would have taken a long time to name all the animals of the world, he must not have liked any of them for a help meet.

21:-So, God hypnotized Ad'am. As he slept, God removed one of his ribs. That is a neat way of explaining why men have one less rib than women do. After he made everything including Ad'am out of dirt, why did he use a part of Ad'am to make a female? Is this another way of belittling women? They are but a insignificant part of a man. One must admit God had little regard for women. They are mere helpmates, for man, playthings to do his biddings, to bear his children. Throughout the Bible, they are ridiculed and belittled.

22:-He made a woman from the rib and gave her to Ad'am. Here is your playmate. have fun now.

23:-Now this poses the question, does this make her his sister, his daughter or what? Ad'am not only has no mother, he had to sacrifice part of his body to gain a wife of questionable parentage. He called her Woman, which is nicer than what some men call their wives these days.

24:-This is an illogical statement and seems out of place at this point, or a poor example. Neither the Man nor the Woman had a mother. That is if you consider God Ad'am's father then Ad'am is Eve's father. A couple of orphans right at the beginning.

25:-Of course, this is a setup for the downfall of the first couple. We must take this for what it is a sign of innocence gone corrupt. Okay, that is the beginning of the end. It's all downhill from here on.