Friday, October 30, 2009

God's greatest creation, mankind

Do you think that Adam was the first human being ever created? Come with me to the King James version bible and I will show you hints to this great mystery.
Genesis 1:26 through 28 says that God created men and women. He also told them to be fruitful and multiply. Then in Genesis 2:7 God formed a man from the dust of the ground.
Notice that created and formed are two different words. In the Hebrew language, the word created is bara which means to create. The word formed in Hebrew is yatsar, which means to mold or squeeze into shape. Two different words to describe two different actions by God. But wait, there is more.
Genesis 2:1 says, "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. I used to think that host was talking about other planets or stars or animals. Host in Hebrew is tsaba. Tsaba means a mass of people.
Again, two different actions by God to create people and to form a man. This man that was formed was Adam, and the people that were created are all the human beings in general. These people are made up of all the races of humans such as black, white, and oriental.
As for Adam, he is the first human that God communicates with. He is also the start of the lineage of the Israelites and eventually Jesus Christ himself.
More to come

2 comments:

  1. I just read these and they are very profound

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  2. Peter Ramsey01 November, 2009

    Cool! That explains a lot (and clears up a lot of misunderstanding).

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