(24)
And
God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle,
and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
(25)
And
God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind,
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
Here we see the creation of land dwelling animals. Again we see the phrase “after his kind”. Again we can refute evolution. Animals did not evolve from one species to another, land animals did not come from sea animals. The Bible clearly states that land animals were created from the ground, and that each were created after their own kind. Cows were created as cows, dogs were created as dogs, cats as cats, monkeys as monkeys, pigs as pigs, and so on. No evolution, no theistic evolution, just creation.
(26)
And
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 fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
Here we have a new twist in creation, God uses the term “Let us”, and he was talking with another party or parties. We know from verse one that “God” is a plurality term. It is a reference to the three persons of the Godhead. The Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit. Throughout Chapter one “God” is used the same way. Here we have a recorded conversation between the Father, the Son & Holy Spirit. He says, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. God is three parts, man is three parts, God has a physical body, Christ; man has a physical body. God has a spiritual body, The Holy Spirit; man has a spirit. God has the mind of God, or the Father; man has the mind of man. As only one attribute of God has ever been seen, the Son, the body of Christ, only one attribute of man can be seen, the body of man. The other two attributes of God, The Father and The Holy Spirit, cannot be seen with the eye, but cannot be denied in their existence. The other two attributes of man cannot be seen with the eye, but likewise also, cannot be denied. Man is picture of his Creator! Thus we bare His Image and likeness!!
Not only do we bare His
image and likeness within ourselves, but in creation as well. God has dominion
over all things. We see also in verse 26 that man was given dominion over all
things upon the earth! As all angels are subject to God, all animals are
subject to man!! Do not mistake dominion for a license to abuse. God does not
abuse the angels, nor does He abuse us (we are also under His dominion) we
ought to exercise as much care for the life we have dominion over as God does.
Naturally we eat animals, they are a source of food God has provided for us,
but we ought not go beyond what is right because we have dominion.
(27)
So
God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
“Male and female created he them”. Woman was not an afterthought and should not be treated like one. Woman was also not an attempt at something better, and ought not think they to be such. What was woman’s purpose?
(Gen 2:18) And the LORD God said, It is
not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
(Gen 2:21-23) And the LORD God caused
a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken
from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is
now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because
she was taken out of Man.
Woman was created to be an help meet for man. Not a leader of man but a helper.
(Col 3:18) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
(Tit 2:3-5) The aged women
likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not
false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may
teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own
husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Not a slave of man, but a helper. She ought not be abused by man, but loved as “bone of his bones”.
(Eph 5:25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ
also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
(Col 3:19) Husbands, love your wives, and be not
bitter against them.
Hence if a man loves his own body, he ought to love his wife with the same magnitude of love. That was God’s intended purpose when He took man’s rib to make a woman.
Summed up in one
verse:
(Eph 5:33)
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as
himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
(28)
And
God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth.
(29)
And
God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every
tree, in the which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
(30)
And
to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing
that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there
is life, I
have given
every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Again we find God
telling His creation, this time man, to multiply. He also told man to
“replenish the earth” to replant what he has consumed. Had man multiplied and
not died we would have a major problem on our hands today. Had man consumed and not replenished what
would become of man? God again demonstrates His omniscient nature in relation
to the fall of man.
We also have a
restatement of man’s dominion, and of all of the things that God Created for
man, before man. He also states that trees and Herbs were for both man and
animal to eat.
(31)
And
God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it
was very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
Notice here we have the conclusion
of the sixth day. This is the first time it was “very good”. Every other time
it was good this time it was very good. Man was the final touch to make God’s
creation “very good”. That is how our Divine Creator sees us!