The Theory of Sources

Some scholars suggests that from Genesis 2.4, we have another story of creation. The text that precedes this part would be of an origin and what starts in 2.4 would be of another one. The first source called “Elohist”, for relating the God for the name “Elohim”, as is read in the Hebrew Bible.The next text was called of “Jahvist“, because of using of the name “Jahve“. This theory supports the argument that Moses would have gathered fragments written on the creation. Anyway, not all of that invalidates or launches doubt on the biblical text.

Both texts complete each other. In the chapter 1, the creation of the man had been already narrated. chapter 2 returns to this subject, in providing details of the form of how God created the man and the woman, and how was the relationship of God with the human beings before the sin.

Anachronism

The Assyria is mentioned in chapter 2, verse 14, in a context where there is still no nation on earth.
The inadvertent reader can imagine being about a mistake. In fact, it is an anachronism that is a historical citation out of time. In the time of the author, probably Moses himself, the Assyrian already existed and his territory was close to the place where

the Garden of the Eden was. That is then cited in chapter 2, as anticipated information. The same thing takes place in the chapter 10, when already it talks about different languages, being that the division of the languages only would happen in chapter 11.They are “parentheses” that the author opens in his narrative in order to insert some information that, even so displaced in time, are useful for ampler to a historical understanding. At these moments, we perceive an author who launches a look on a distant past (6.4) and that, in some instances, uses his present knowledge to enrich the narrative. The genealogical texts normally gathers information of very different times, breaking the chronological sequence between the chapters of the context.

Many other similar cases take place in Genesis, according to it, its possible to observe in:
TEXT SUBJECT
Gn.2.14 the Assyrian is mentioned before its time.
Gn.2.24 “Will leave the man his father and his mother”. Adam did not have a father or a mother.
Gn.10.14 Reference to the Philistines
Gn.13.10 Anticipated the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Gn.14.2, 8 Mention Zoar, when the name of the city was Bela.
Gn.14.3 Mention the Salty Sea when the name was Siddim.
Gn.14.7 Mention Cadesh, when the name of the city was Hazazon - Tamar.
Gn.14.17 Mention the King’s Valley when the name was Valley of Shaveh.

After creating all the things, God made man and constituted him as an authority on the creation (Gn.1.26). Human beings should dominate everything that exists on the earth. However, this authority only prevailed, while Adam was connected to the fountain of power, which is God. From the moment in which he sinned, Adam stopped dominating. Therefore, Satan became the “prince of this world” (John 14.30; Lc.4.5-6), and since then, “the world lies in the evil” (I John 5.19), so that the whole is undermined by nature the devastating effects of sin (Rm.8.20).

The natural order of the things should have been: Adam and Eva as an authority on the animals. However, in chapter 3, Eva let the serpent control her. An inversion of the order took place then and, consequently, the moral and spiritual chaos was installed. In the same chapter, God established the authority of the man on his wife. From then on, man would not dominate naturally on the animals neither about the demonic powers. God said to the serpent: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it will bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel” (Gn.3.15). The man became prey of the animals and victim of the spiritual and natural forces. The environment became hostile. The life of man has become a struggle to achieve survival, and in some measure, the lost dominion More ahead, in chapter 6, it is the history of Noah. When placing and controlling the animals in the ark, He demonstrated that the dominion still was possible for those that were placed in obedience under the divine authority.

In the New Testament, Jesus came to rescue the authority that the man had lost. In the cross this was accomplished and, while reviving, Christ received all the authority in Heavens and in the land (Mt.28.18). He, the last Adam (I Cor.15.45), undid the mistake of the first man. The new Eva is the church. The divine order of authority is again established. Surviving this new reality, every Christian, as part of the church, is invested of authority on serpents, scorpions and any power of the evil and nothing will damage them(Lc.10.17-19; Mc.16.17-18; 3 At.28-3-6).

In the Meantime, since the serpent deceived Eva, we take risk of being deceived by the Devil, falling in his traps and losing our authority (II Cor.11.3).

The creation was done through the power of the God’s word, by means of the action of the Holy Spirit, which was hovering over the face of the waters.

As the writer said to the Hebrews: “By the faith we understand that the world, by God’s word were created, in the way so that the visible was not done than what is apparent ” (Hb.11.3). As His orders were uttered, His works were appearing. God said: ” Let there be light”, and there was light.

Today, God still creates through His word. It does generate in us His purpose, when we receive it with faith and obedience (Hb.4.2). Otherwise, it will serve only for our condemnation (John 12.48).

Our words may also have creative or destructive power. “Death and life are in the power of language.” (Pv.18.21). Therefore, we must be careful with our talk. Damage or benefits of words can reach many people.

Allegory of the chaos

Many lives are like the land of the second verse, without form and empty. They were created by God but have no commitment with him. They are distant, indifferent, wanting to live independent of God. In this way, nothing that is good will is produced. The setting is of darkness about the face of the abyss. If the abyss is covered by the darkness, a situation of danger exists. This is the condition of all that live without God. There, exists always the risk of a sudden destruction.

Many lives are as the earth, as the vesicle, without form and empty. They had been created by God but do not have any commitment with Him. They are distant, indifferent, wanting to live independent of God. In such a way, nothing good will be produced. The scene is of darkness on the face of the abyss. If the abyss is covered by darkness, there exists a situation of occult danger. This is the condition of all the ones that live without God. There is always the risk of sudden destruction.
When God enters the life of someone, He begins to transform the reality of this person. God is Light. One of the meanings of “Light” is knowledge. Allow that the knowledge of God begin to transform your life. Gradually, day after day, He will create something new. Everything is reaching its proper place, and the result will be a life of communion with the Lord. However, the risk keeps on existing. In the Garden of the Paradise was the Serpent, Satan. Therefore, the vigilance must be something constant in the life of those that already know the Lord.

The first character of Genesis is God Himself. In the first chapter, we begin to know his character through His creative work. The Bible does not bring the intention of proving the existence of God. His authors started from an absolute presupposition, which is faith. They did not try to convince the reader, but to teach as to God.

Reading the history of the creation, we find God as a being:
Eternal – therefore it is not spoken about His beginning.
Wise – therefore He created everything in the best way.
Almighty – possessing the power to create all the things.
Creative – He put into action the power of creating.
Organized – He created everything in a coherent order, in a way that the first creatures prepared the environment for the following ones.
Objective - all the creatures had been made with a definite purpose.
Kind - everything that He made was good.
Blessed - He prepared a paradise for man.
Sovereign - The universe moves under His orders

A plural God – At some moments of the creation, God uses verbs in the plural (Gn.1.26; 11.7). We believe in the presence of the; Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit (1.2). In other verses, the God’s name is plural (Elohim), but the verb is singular (Gn.1.1)

The only one God - The Genesis does not present many gods, each creating a part of the universe. Only one God created all things.

Lord – Because of having created all the things, He is the owner of all, inclusive of all the human beings. We are His.

Legislator – In chapter 1, we see the determination of several natural laws, which are still true today. By example, in the verse 11, is determined that the herbs produce seeds and that in them are the genetic characteristics of the plant. God determined the place for each thing to be created: the dry land, the sea, the animals, the fish, the stars, etc.

This order of the universe, its balance and function, is some of the innumerable evidences of the existence of God.

Chapters 1 and 2 refute polytheism, pantheism and deism. We see a God different from the creation, who cares about the created beings, principally, man.

What is believed about the origin of the universe determines what is believed about the way of life and destiny. It is impossible to prove scientifically the creation or evolution. It would be necessary to document experimental repetition.

Both the systems depend on faith. It is a mistake that the creationism is religious and that evolutionism is scientific. Creationism is in accordance with scientific knowledge.

The evolutionist believes in a pre-existing substance as well as we believes in the pre-existing God.
Evolutionism is a theory and not a science.

The following questionings against the evolution are indications of creation:

There are no intermediary forms between the species. They were not found in the fossils. In the time of Darwin they were waiting to find one day. Up to today they did not find.

The evolutionists place in line beings that exist in parallel.

Similarities and differences between cats and dogs – the evolutionist sees signals of transformation of one in another one. The creationist sees the project of a common Creator who projected similar structures for similar functions and different structures for different functions.
To deny that creation is a fact means to deny the existence of God.

Evolutionism teaches that all of reality is only a process of auto-transformation. The substance develops, for better, without the intervention of any incorporeal force creationism teaches that everything was made in the principle and nothing more is being created. Nothing is improving, but is corrupting because of sin.

The clock is the proof of the existence of the watchmaker. The complex nature of the human body leads us to conclude that it had planning and that, therefore, there is intelligence behind it. The beauty and the pattern existing in nature lead us to conclude that there is a Unique Thought that planned everything.