God created man as His friend not because He felt lonely. He is perfect and lacked nothing in Himself. He was not looking outside, thirsting for companionship but He was a person with a plan. The omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent God, on a good day, decided to befriend one of His created beings. Who is there to question God in His theocracy? And as part of His plan, He created man in His image. This plan about mankind came into existence before the foundation of the world.
For five days, God was busy creating the planet earth. Day one, light and separating light from the darkness. It’s fun to define darkness as the absence of light but for that, He first separated the both. Still, I am not sure how it was before He separated the light from the darkness. Where its borders were lied and where it merged? A concept hard for me to comprehend.
Usually, I quote something from the life of King Solomon
since he had forty valiant men to fight the fears of darkness, “have a fiery
chariot, if you don’t have forty valiant men around you, like Elijah”.
I love to think like this, God the God of all lights, separated
the light from the darkness for our convenience. What else is the logical
explanation for that darkness hid from his presence and appears as He goes? If
He didn’t do the separation process, it will be a Dewali when He comes and a power
cut when He goes. That’s what I understood. Not sure of the exact science
behind it. Now, you discuss.
After the separation, there came the evening and the morning,
the first day.
God created the heavens and the earth, the evening and
the morning, and the third day.
Now comes the separation of the water from the water
and a piece of land in the middle. He called the dry land, Earth. So, I retract
my early comments concerning the naming of our planet. The name came before the
branch of science for naming stuff came into existence.
Let me put it into perspective for my clarity, God
divided water from the waters, now, two sets of water bodies. Then He created a
ferment and called it heaven. End of the second day. Then He commanded the
waters to gather together and the dry land appeared. He called the dry land
Earth and the water body the sea.
The evening and the morning were the second days.
He created grass and all kinds of vegetation and its
fruits and seeds. The problem concerning the food and accommodation was solved.
The evening and the morning were the third days.
Then He hung lights in the ferment, the space, to
divide the day from the night, for signs and seasons; for days and years.
God made two great lights; the greater one to rule the
day. To rule, chills, right? When God says stuff, it has a God style in it, “to
rule”. Let it sink.
A night lamp for the night, we all know how the lunar calendar
works and we count seasons based on that. He set all other stars, the near and
far ones. The evening and the morning were the fourth days.
Then He created air and water creatures, the fowl that
may fly above the earth, and every creature that moves in the water. Just like
the dry land, the waterbody also got populated. God blessed them to multiply
and reign. The evening and the morning were the fifth days.
So, after re-creating earth and its inhabitance within
five days, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit created man in
His image. He took clay in His hands and molded man and breath into his
nostrils. And the man turned out to be a living being. When the breath of God
entered into him and he became alive, two things were formed, man’s spirit, as
He breathed, and his soul. Let me put it this way, when God the triune, created
man, man had a spirit, a soul, and a body. He couldn’t create anything less
once He said to Himself, “Let Us create man in Our image, after Our likeness”.
So, what is the image of God? A triune image.
And God saw everything that He had made and He saw it
as very good. And the evening and the morning, the sixth day.
On the seventh day, God rested from all the work which
He had made.
