--On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:21:01 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Troy Elliott Eckhardt > To: asa@calvin.edu > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:31 PM > Subject: replenishing > > > Why did God command Adam and Eve to replenish the Earth? Does the Hebrew word imply that his command was to replenish (i.e. make plentiful AGAIN)? > > If so, who was here before Man? > > What do you think? > > Troy
Stuart Kirkley repies: A careful reading of the first two chapters of Genesis reveals two accounts of creation. The first, in Genesis 1 is the true creation. As you read Chapter 2 you will note it states in the very first verse: 'Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.' Later in verse 6&7 it states: 'But there went up a mist from the earth'... 'And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,'.... Man has already been created in Gen.1, created in the image and likeness of God, and His creation is complete. Who is this second man, created of the dust of the ground? The mist indicates an obscuration of reality, an illusion or mystification. The true man has already been created, the second creation is an illusion. This is what is referred to in 1 Cor 15:45-47; the first creation being spiritual, the second natural. Then, as it says in 1 Cor 15:22 'As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.' If you remember that Christ said, 'Before Abraham w! as, I am'; from this we learn that Christ is the first man, or real man, of the true creation in Gen.1, a wholly spiritual creation. The second man or material creation is an illusion. If you can begin to comprehend this, you will experience that replenishment which is the 'fulfillment of the law', the restoration of reality as a wholly spiritual creation, governed by God, the creator, and fully expressed in His Son, or spiritual idea which is the Christ, or Truth of Being.
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