every living creature The second clause, "every living creature," as distinguished from fishes merely, is taken up again in verse 24, showing that in the second creative act all animal life is included. read more
living creature "Creature," Heb. nephesh, trans. soul in Genesis 2:7 and usually. In itself nephesh, or soul, implies self-conscious life, as distinguished from plants, which have unconscious life. In the sense of self-conscious life animals also have "soul." See verses ; Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:21-23. (See Scofield "Genesis 2:7- :") . read more
make man in our image Man. Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:27 gives the general, Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:21-23 the particular account of the creation of man. The revealed facts are: (1) Man was created not evolved. This is (a) expressly declared, and the declaration is confirmed by Christ Matthew 19:14; Mark 10:6; Mark 10:6 (b) "an enormous gulf, a divergence practically infinite" (Huxley) between the lowest man and the highest beast, confirms it; (c) the highest beast has no trace of... read more
Chapter 1:1-8Shall we now turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter one, verse one?The word Genesis in Hebrew means "beginning." And so, it is "the book of the beginnings", and in Genesis we find the beginning of the universe, first of all, and then the beginning of the life forms within the universe, the beginning of man, the beginning of sin and death. Then we find the beginning of God's redemptive program by the beginning of a nation.The majority of the book of Genesis has to do with God's... read more
Chapter 1:9-31Now on the third day,God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called the Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and fruit trees yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so (Gen 1:9-11). Now the key here is the... read more
Genesis 1:1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; all the orbs which revolve and shine in the expanse of heaven, measuring time by days, and years, and periods. By consequence, the sublime system of nature is not eternal. If matter were eternal, then the אלהים Elohim, Ο Θεοτης , the Godhead or Divinity who acts here, is also material, dependent on matter, and a necessary agent. The perfections of wisdom, goodness and love, can no longer be attributed to him. These... read more
Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earthThe Christian doctrine of creationIn considering the subject of creation we see, first of all, that a distinction must be drawn between what I would call primary and secondary creation.Primary creation is creation proper. It is that grand act whereby Almighty God in the beginning called into being the finite world. Secondary creation, on the other hand, belongs to the sphere of Providence, or to the sphere of the history of the... read more
Genesis 1:2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deepGenesis of orderI.EXPLANATION OF THE PASSAGE. 1. The primeval chaos. (1) Origin of chaos. The direct issue of the Creative Will. God created the atoms of the universe, starting with them in a chaotic state. (2) Picture of chaos. All the elements which now exist were doubtless there; but all were out of relation. (3) Confirmation of science. If the magnificent nebular hypothesis of the... read more
Genesis 1:3-4Let there be lightThe creation of lightI.DIVINELY PRODUCED. 1. For the protection of life. Plants could not live without light; without it, the flowers would soon wither. Even in a brief night they close their petals, and will only open them again at the gentle approach of the morning light. Nor could man survive in continued darkness. A sad depression would rest upon his soul. 2. For the enjoyment of life. Light is one of God’s best gifts to the world. (1) It is inexpensive. The... read more
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Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 1:17
heaven i.e. the "heaven" of the stars; e.g. Genesis 15:5; Luke 23:43. read more