Open Bible Study on Genesis Chapter 1

Genesis 1:2,

👉 "The earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water."

After the creation of space-time, matter and energy, God's Spirit is now moving over the waters of the earth in its conception. This earth is formless and void, empty of anything we would recognize as earth today. It is noteworthy to see how this was translated in the Greek Septuagint:

👉 ἡ δὲ γῆ ἦν ἀόρατος καὶ ἀκατασκεύαστος, καὶ σκότος ἐπάνω τῆς ἀβύσσου, καὶ πνεῦμα θεοῦ ἐπεφέρετο ἐπάνω τοῦ ὕδατος

✅Word: ἀόρατος (invisible, without form).

✅Word: ἀκατασκεύαστος (without shape).

I imagine this watery deep as being similar to a lava lamp, where each bubble is changing shape. This is what is meant by "without shape."
So the earth is merely just a very clear watery substance in space. There are no stars at this point and without the light of stars the universe is a very dark place. The watery deep of the earth cannot be seen. This earth had not become a wasteland due to some mysterious gap between Gen.1:1 and 1:2. There is no gap between verses. Verse 1 begins with the universe and the watery heap that will be the earth. Then God's Spirit follows up on that creation of space, and now, having the supplies to start creation, will now begin construction. Though here in verse 2 of Day 1 the earth is empty and void...shapeless and unseen.

Recap of Genesis 1:2,

▪️Gen.1:2 - God follows through with His first act of creation and His Spirit is moving over the watery heap. There is no light yet created. The newly created universe is dark. God moves over the fetal earth which is formless, without shape, and void. God is about to do something to the earth.

Below is a gif of how the newly created earth may have looked like (or similar to) in Genesis 1:1-2.

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Genesis 1:3 -- The Light



What was the light God created? Some say the universe was created here. But if you hold that position you are overlooking the fact that verse 3 is about the earth as verse 2 confirms. God's Spirit is moving over the earth in it's most fetal stage of creation. As God's Spirit moved over the earth, He speaks: "Let there be light." This light was something God created. Some say the light is God. It is true that God Is Light and Life, Eternal Life. But the light that God created was not Himself nor was this light the sun (as the sun is created on Day 4).

The general consensus among creationists is that the light is electromagnetic radiation and photons. While this is respectable, I do have a small problem with that explanation. At this point God's Spirit is hovering over the earth (v.2). He is now going to start creating the earth. Electromagnetic radiation and photons would have just as easily been created in verse 1 of Day 1. With the supply of energy now already created by God, He now creates the light on the earth for the earth. The verse seems to clearly indicate that this light is part of the earth.

God's Spirit in the Bible is described as Light and Eternal Life. God is a living Being Who Is the Source of all light and life. With God's Eternal Presence on earth, the earth itself is already in good hands. For God is the greatest of Carpenters and the greatest of Chefs. God now reaches into Himself for the recipe that would bring the light of life upon the earth.

Thus God created the core of the earth -- that little sun that burns white hot inside the center of our planet. In the darkness of space the light of this core coming into existence would have been the only truly created light source seen in space, seen through the watery heap, as the universe is still in darkness at this stage of creation. On this fetal earth, it can be safely said that the iron age has begun, as the core is made of iron. Sonoluminescence may explain how God's vocal Command caused the light inside the earth. The star in a jar experiment does shine light onto this subject. However, the science behind Sonoluminescence is sill very young and I believe what God has done here is more advanced that modern knowledge can comprehend. 

The earth, being a watery deep, unformed and invisible (due to the darkness of space and clarity of water), would not have been filled with landmass at this point. What matter there was to the fetal earth in Genesis 1:1-2 is unknown. What is known is that the earth was made by water (2 Peter 3:5 )...water being the main ingredient to the earth. The core is made up of elements that when combined with water will react and create earth (molten rock, soil, the mantle). As God created the core it would have been seen in space at this time. From far off in the distance, the core would have looked like a Pulsar as it rotated rapidly. The Light of God's Presence would have also been seen. God created everything in essential steps necessary to achieve His goal - the habitable globe, תֵּבֵל, οἰκουμένη.


The core is now activated and the earth is now been given the light of life by our Eternal Father.

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🌎Genesis 1:4-5 -- Rotation of Earth

👉 "4 God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day."

Keep in mind there is no sun, moon or stars created yet. If the light created in verse 3 of Day 1 was electromagnetic radiation and photons, how will that explain verses 4 & 5 of Day 1? It really doesn't. If, for example, we were to look into space from the window of the International Space Station, considering there are no stars anywhere in space, we'd see nothing but blackness. What light that could be generated by electromagnetic radiation and photons is not enough to provide a valid explanation of the separation of light and darkness. Scripture says:

👉 "I form the light and create darkness;
I make peace and create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things."
~ Isaiah 45:7

👉 "When He prepared the heavens, I was there,
when He drew a circle on the face of the deep."
~ Proverbs 8:27

The early church fathers speak about Genesis 1:2-5

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🌎How The Early Church Fathers Understood Day 1


When you read the works of the early church fathers it is important that you understand what you are reading. What you are not reading is Scripture. The early church fathers are not Scripture and should not be read as Scripture. The early church fathers were not scientists and did not understand nor have our modern knowledge of science. So their explanations may at times fall short of our modern knowledge.

However, the early church fathers will accurately lay down the basis of how Scripture is to be understood. They understood what Scripture was saying to them but lacked the proper knowledge of science to fully capture the science behind the events. What they do provide is a road map of how we may understand the basic principles of proper exegesis.


✅Clement of Alexandria (150-215 A.D.)


The following is taken from his writing called The Instructor, which I’m citing from the very last page of Book III entitled To The Paedagous:

“And when the seasons, in their circling course,
Winter and summer, spring and autumn, each
Should come, according to well-ordered plan;
Out of a confused heap who didst create
This ordered sphere, and from the shapeless mass
Of matter didst the universe adorn;--
Grant to me life, and be that life well spent,
Thy grace enjoying; let me act and speak
In all things as Thy Holy Scriptures teach”
(Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol.1).

✅St.Ambrose (337-397 A.D.)

"Consequently, the year, too, has the stamp of a world coming to birth, as the splendor of the springtime shines forth all the more clearly because of the winter’s ice and darkness now past. The shape of the circles of years to come has been given form by the first dawn of the world” (St.Ambrose, "Hexameron" The Fathers Of The Church series translated by John J. Savage., p.12).

Ambrose understands that both the shape of the earth and its rotation began on Day 1.


✅St.Augustine (354-430 A.D.)

“But if the light first created enveloped the earth on all sides, whether it was motionless or travelling round, it could not be followed anywhere by night, because it did not vacate any place to make room for night. But was it made on one side, so that as it travelled it would permit the night to follow after from the other? Although water still covered all the earth, there was nothing to prevent the massive watery sphere from having day on one side by the presence of light, and on the other side, night by the absence of light. Thus, in the evening, darkness would pass to that side from which light would be turning to the other” (St.Augustine, "The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Vol.1." Ancient Christian Writers, Vol.41., p.33).

St.Augustine may not be able to identify the source of light on Day 1, but he, like other church fathers, are reading that the earth was round and began to rotate on Day 1.

What Augustine has right is how the earth is a sphere and rotating at this point. However, he is having trouble identifying the light.

St. Augustine didn't know exactly how the earth turned. But his 4th century mind was on the right idea:

“These writers are then asked why Saturn is cold. Its temperature should be higher in proportion to the rapid movement it has by reason of its height in the heavens. For surely when a round mass is rotating, the parts near the center move more slowly, and those near the edge more rapidly, so that the greater and lesser distances may be covered simultaneously in the same circular motion” (p.52).

What Augustine gets right is that there is something inside a planet that makes it spin. This he would have solved had he known about the core.

From what we read from the early church fathers, its clear to my mind that they were reading a round and rotating earth in Day 1. They were not fools but brilliant ancient scholars who understood Scripture well.

On Day 1 God drew the circle on the deep as a building engineer makes designs on constructing a new building. The Scaffolding is up and the shape of the circles of years has now begun from the first full spin of the earth. For God (in verses 4-5) began creating Earth Standard Time. The separation of light and darkness would begin with earth's very first rotation. As the core rapidly spins and forms a chuwg, God ascribed to the earth its spherical shape. The word "chuwg" in Proverbs 8:27 is describing Day 1 of creation.


Job 38:14,

"It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment."

As the core rapidly churns, the earth takes on its spherical shape. From the moment of the earth's first spin inertia then becomes law.



  


▪️Gen.1:3 - God created the light that gives life to the earth. God created the earth's core. As chemical reactions take place, the core begins to churn rapidly. As it churns the watery heap also begins to slowly turn and take shape as clay to the seal.



▪️Gen.1:4-5 - Traditionally, these two verses are understood as the earth's first spin. The day-night cycle begins with the earth's first rotation. But the separation of light and darkness would not see fruition until Day 4 when God finishes the day-night cycle.

🌎Day 2 -- Genesis 1:6-8

👉 "Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day."

By verses 4-5 the earth begins to rotate and to take shape. 


✅Job 26:10

"He has circled the waters with boundaries,
until the day and night come to an end" (MEV).

Here again we have a verse assigned to the creation account with the word chuwg in relation to the boundaries. The KJV says,

"He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end."

"He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters,
At the boundary of light and darkness" (NKJV).

Then the NLT says this:

"He created the horizon when he separated the waters;
he set the boundary between day and night."

✅Clement of Rome (35 - 99 A.D.),

“Thus, by His transcendent might He established the heavens, and by His incomprehensible understanding He ordered them: the earth He separated from the water now encircling it, and firmly grounded it on the unshakable foundation of His own will” (Clement of Rome, Ancient Christian Writers Vol.1., "Epistle To The Corinthians", 33:3).

✅Flavius Josephus (37-100 A.D.),

“After this, on the second day, he placed the heaven over the whole world, and separated it from the other parts; and he determined it should stand by itself. He also placed a crystalline [firmament] round it, and put it together in a manner agreeable to the earth, and fitted it for giving moisture and rain, and for affording the advantage of dews” (Antiquity 1:30).

Both of these quotations are nearly identical in scope. They both indirectly quote from Job 26:7 and they mention the roundness of the earth. So it may be explained that during the earth's first full spin, as it was taking shape, the earth at this time is still among the watery deep in which God "drew the circle" (chuwg) on the face of the deep. The earth at the end of Day 1 is now moving and also taking shape like a clay pottery takes shape:



▪️Job 38:14

👉 "It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment" (KJV).

👉 "It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed" (YLT).

Both the KJV and YLT best translate this verse to the correct Hebrew understanding. The earth is turning itself at the end of Day 1.


Going into Day 2 God will now separate the waters which He has used to create the earth so far. While God may indeed be separating waters from outside the watery sphere, the more important part of this analysis and what we can be sure of is that God is separating the waters from within the watery sphere.

There is no space between the ocean and sky. The whole earth is covered with water and in water. Thus God creates an expanse...a space...between the waters allowing air to flow between the ocean and the newly created sky (earthly atmosphere). The KJV uses the word "firmament" which you will find in the oldest English Bibles as well as modern translations. The proper rendering of the Hebrew word râqîya is "expanse" and not firmament. Here is another complication: Our English translations inherit "firmament" from the Latin Vulgate which inherited it from the Greek Septuagint. On the surface there is nothing wrong with this as the Greek and Latin tend to be more accurate than our English--and, in many cases, the Greek LXX more accurate than the Hebrew Masoretic Text. However, râqîya is a unique word to Hebrew and there was no perfect Greek equivalent when the 72 Jewish elders translated the Hebrew into Greek. The next best thing was "steréōma" (Greek) which has been the oldest translation mistake in the history of Bible translating. By the 19th century this "firmament" (Latin) rendering of râqîya' would be realized. Today, with all the knowledge learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls, most English Bibles are now translating râqîya as the more proper "expanse."

râqîya' is a space in between objects. This is called an "expanse." Outer space is an expanse and the space between land and the earthly sky is an expanse. The NLT renders râqîya' this way in Genesis 1:6-7,

👉 "6 Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.” 7 And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens."

The NLT translated râqîya' as "space." Very good! Space is interchangeable with "expanse" in this context. However...

👉 "God called the space “sky" (Gen.1:8).

While this rendering of verse 8 is accurate, the NLT decides to blunder a good thing away by rendering Gen.1:14 as,

👉 "Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night..."

The error made here is the misuse of the word "sky" when it should read like the MEV,

👉 "And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night..."

In verse 8 the word translated "sky" is the Hebrew shâmayim. In verse 8 it is singular and it verse 14 its plural. For in verse 8 shâmayim refers only to the earthly sky. But in verses 1, 14, 15, 17 they refer to the great expanse of outer space. Lexicographers understand this and I'll provide the Strong's definitions below:


✅The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible - H7549 רָקִיעַ râqîyaʻ

✅The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible - H8064 שָׁמַיִם shâmayim




You can read the definition of râqîya' and see how it does not fully agree with G4733 στερέωμα steréōma. Only in part does râqîya' agree with steréōma. Yet the Hebrew shâmayim and Greek ouranós both agree fully.

The lesson here is that not all Hebrew words are easy to translate into other languages. The word râqîya' is the perfect example of how difficult it can be to find an equivalent. While the vast majority of Hebrew words found their Greek and Latin equivalents, râqîya' did not. This is the case with a few well known Greek words that are untranslatable into English...words such as G1933 ἐπιεικής epieikḗs found in Philippians 4:5. The word epieikḗs has such a profoundly unique Greek meaning that it's impossible to capture the meaning into a short Greek-English verse. Yet the Hebrew word râqîya' translates better into English than it does in Greek and Latin. Generally speaking the Greek and Latin are better reads than English. But in the case of râqîya' our modern English "expanse" is perfect with the Hebrew. When you read Genesis Chapter 1 with the correct understanding of râqîya' (expanse), the whole chapter makes perfect sense as it was intended to.


✅The Webster's 1828 Dictionary defines "expanse" as
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The expanse covers two things:

A large space in between land and sky -- the open expanse.
A large extended area of the sea, sky or outer space.

👉 "God called the expanse Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day" (Gen.1:8).

God called the râqîya' (expanse) shâmayim (heaven). So the expanse on Day 2 was created for the purpose of creating our earthly atmosphere (or sky).

The earth at this point is unquestionably a fully spherical planet suspended in space over nothing. While darkness still reigns in space, if you were able to see the earth from a distance, you would see a planet that looks a lot like Neptune. The magnetic field is still strengthening, and with God's presence on earth it won't take millions of years before its protecting the earth. But it will take a couple of days for the magnetic field to protect the earth. The earth at this point of creation week is marinating, per se. The earth is not ready for the big bad boy sun.

"For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else" (Isaiah 45:18).

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding" (Job 38:4).

With the atmosphere now created, the fetal earth is now building up the magnetosphere aided by the core and the earth's rotation. The atmospheric layers of the earth are still fragile moments after creation. The core of the earth acts like a generator which needs a little time to charge up the earth. The "North" (Job 26:7) is now being magnetized by the core which causes our magnetic field. Though while the expanse of the sky now exist, below the sky is nothing but water. Land has not yet appeared on the earth.
Evolutionists have this real big problem explaining the origin of water and assume comets from space bombarded our planet and caused water to appear on earth  You have to wonder how this water could stay on this earth with the sun pounding on the earth from the start?? Comets impacting the earth will exceed temperatures of 2,000°F. Water boils at 212°F. So even if the earth at this time had an atmosphere there would be no water from comets as it would all be vaporized while entering our atmosphere and on impact. But evolutionists say the earth did not have an atmosphere at this time. Without naturally occurring greenhouse gases, Earth's average temperature would be near 0°F (or -18°C) according to NASA. However, if there was no magnetic field, solar radiation from the sun would scorch the earth relentlessly and neither water or an atmosphere would exist on earth.

AAAS is a reliable source of information for evolution theory. In the article linked below, evolutionists say the earth's core didn't even solidify until 500-million years ago.
This means that evolutionists believe that all water: the water in our atmosphere, the water of the earth, all evolved without a strong magnetic field 
www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/earth-s-magnetic-field-helped-life-evolve?fbclid=IwAR2x-At8gBvAOwKCSANgZQwEEkrJY1ssfL8V6KhJuDnmHV9L0uA7LSDPlX8

I do not care how difficult it is to swallow the explanation I provide here - It cannot be nowhere near as disastrous as the evolutionary model of the early earth. Seriously folks, its a very clumsy and barbaric explanation! Anything evolutionists could possibly get wrong, they got wrong. Any water these comets would bring to the earth would be all scorched as the earth is unable to develop an atmosphere with the sun constantly raping the earth of all things which evolutionists try to explain the origin of life with. There would be no pond for life to evolve from. The sun would molest the pond and the waters would be incinerated, evaporated, and be no more. Pardon me if my science terminology mirrors Emory Tate's chess terminology. Vulgar as it may be but its still a Triple Exclam!!! 🎤


From the Biblical perspective, no explanation for water is necessary.

👉 "For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water" (2 Peter 3:5).

So who you gonna believe: the Biblical worldview where water makes up the universe, or the evolutionist worldview where trying to explain the origin of water has led to laughter even among their own ranks. You decide..

☀️Day 4 - Genesis 1:14-19

👉14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons, and days, and years. 15 Let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 Then God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. Then God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

☀️Genesis 1:14,

👉 "And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night...."

In Gen.1:4-5, God laid out the blueprints that would separate light and darkness by creating the earth to move in a circle (or to circuit -- H2329 chuwg). This refers to the rotation of the earth which makes it possible for light to pass on one side of the earth while darkness passes to the other side. Now God's purpose for creating a rotating earth is about to reach fruition.



☀️Genesis 1:16,

👉 "God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also."

The word "stars" in Genesis 1:16 means everything that is not the sun or the moon.



✅The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible,

"H3556 כּוֹכָב kôwkâb, ko-kawb'; probably from the same as H3522 (in the sense of rolling) or H3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively, a prince:—star(-gazer)."
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?t=kjv&strongs=h3556&fbclid=IwAR0NiVEeJ3mQNU5-qnUZ-pRusws_82kYpLI8DNlMf2VJM7KEHzckwvpQdqM



Stars are blazing and shinny just as planets are shining, round and rolling (rotating). So while Genesis 1:16 doesn't break down words in modern English (as English didn't exist back then), it does sum up everything considered a star in the Hebrew language. Be sure to see the Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon definition. The Gesenius' defines "stars" as a "globe" or a "ball." That sums up planets really well.


On Day 4 God created all stars, our galaxy, our sun and moon, and solar system. Now God created all the energy needed to complete the universe and our galaxy on Day 1. Some people fuss over how to explain distant starlight in a young universe? While Dr.Russell Humphreys does cover deep insight into gravitational time dilation, I'm not so sure his white hole universe is necessary. Though I doubt any honest physicist can say for absolute certain how old the universe actually is? What happened at the instant stars appeared? How strong was gravity in the early universe: stronger or weaker? How much of the universe filled with light when God called the stars into existence? And if our galaxy was all light during its creation, did that light instantly reach the earth? There are many questions that produce many theories which I'm not gonna dwell on here.


This IS NOT natural process at work. God is in control of creating the natural order and through His power He created the stars. I believe God created all other planets on Day 4 (though its unclear if God created planets on Day 1 or Day 4?). God only created the earth to be inhabited. Evolutionists frantically search for a planet with life on it similar to life on earth. Yet evolutionists have not found any life anywhere. Of course, this is not to say there isn't life on some distant planet. But if there is life on another world we definitely don't want to mess with it. It maybe that God confined certain beings for whatever reasons on such and such a planet. But all this talk is pointless as trillions of dollars of advanced research between the U.S., Russia, France and China have never been able to find a planet with life. We can go by the Drake equation and it means nothing. For if we are alone in the universe mathematical odds in favor of life are mere fanciful expressions that make some people feel more secure living in a universe that has other life on it. In reality, the Drake equation has proved to be fruitless as all our astronomic knowledge put together between all Space Agencies has never discovered the existence of life anywhere. SETI has never communicated with other beings from distant planets. This may very well mean we are all alone in this vast universe. Only God and His angels, and the devil and his angels, are among us; angels in front of our eyes but our the naked eye can't see. Maybe there is truth to multiple dimensions of space-time. If that is the case then physicists today have it all wrong. For they teach a pantheist model when they should be trying to search for a monotheistic God Who Authored the existence of space-time, our earth, including our human selves. If scientists put their minds to the things of God perhaps we may once again make giant leaps of discovery. Though as long as science is under the State control of militant atheists those glory days of science are well behind us. For the knowledge of God is the beginning of wisdom.


☀️Genesis 1:17-19,

👉 "17 Then God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness."

God set the sun, moon and stars in the expanse of the heavens (i.e., space).

"So the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

God's has now completed earth standard time. The earth's rotation is now controlled by the moon's lunar gravity. How God created the moon I don't know. It might as been as easy as grabbing a rock and buffing it to fit His expectations.  


Last but not least. Had God created the sun on Day 1 it would have been self-defeating. The following video is the last scene of the movie "The gods must be crazy." Here you will see a man who is so nervous around a particular women of interest that he becomes clumsy and knocks every thing down. In the process of trying to put cups back on the table he sets a cup up back on the table only for the cup to fall off again. This is the perfect video to showcase the reason why God did not create the sun first.




The sun would destroy all life on earth before the magnetic field has a chance to reach full strength! On the evolutionary end of the spectrum, life has no chance. The sun will keep the earth from ever producing life. Water cannot evolve or find a way to remain on earth with the sun scorching the earth every single day. The earth is roasted and a place where no life dwells. Evolutionists pridefully claim the sun is older than the earth. This is very poor science and I find it hard to believe that people still place their faith in the empty words of evolutionists. An earth that is constantly incinerated by the sun cannot hope to develop a magnetic field. What makes matters worse is how evolutionists just assume the magnetic field is there. Early earth evolution skips and jumps over many stages which escapes the notice of many atheists who did not think it over long enough to find all the scientific impossibilities in the theory.

🌎Day 6 - Genesis 1:24,

👉 "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."

👉 "Dixit quoque Deus: Producat terra animam viventem in genere suo, jumenta, et reptilia, et bestias terrae secundum species suas. Factumque est ita."

There are many important words here but for the phrase "creeping thing" (English), "reptilia" (Latin) will be the focus here. But lets start with a simple introduction to the Latin word "terrae."


The Latin word "terrae" is translated from the Hebrew H776 אֶרֶץ ʼerets and the Greek G1093 γῆ gē. Now "terrae" in Latin means land, earth, or planet. Terra has many applications but here it refers to planet earth. Notice he verse says "...Let the earth bring forth." God commands the earth to bring forth living creatures. Obviously the earth is a living planet. The life of the planet is in the earth's core.

The next word used in Gen.1:24 is the Latin "reptilia." This is translated from the Hebrew H7431 רֶמֶשׂ remes.
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7431&t=KJV&fbclid=IwAR0Q6RIlx3888cgUBcrvEqCm1oxDcfxnlxLheh24aKHeCfBPPLl5y3L2kxo

Any of the beasts that walked the land God created could have been dinosaurs (among other beast of the earth). Genesis doesn't list off every kind of land dwelling beast that walked on land. Even if Genesis did list the names of all creatures created on Day 6 we would not recognize them in our language today. But Scripture does mention reptile which we do recognize and does cover dinosaurs.



🌎Genesis 1:25,

👉 "Et fecit Deus bestias terrae juxta species suas, et jumenta, et omne reptile terrae in genere suo. Et vidit Deus quod esset bonum"

God created the beasts of terrae (the earth). This covers beasts like cattle and all things that move or creep along the ground.

The centerpiece of this verse is the Latin phrase "reptile terrae." Now this phrase in Latin in written in the language of paleontology. The Latin break down is required here.

▪️Dinosaur: a word coined in 1841 by paleontologist Sir Richard Owen (though other sources say 1842). The ancient Greek word is δεινός (deinós, “terrible, awesome, mighty, fearfully great”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”). From the Greek word we get the Latin dinosaurus. It is the Latin that we English speaking people inherit the word "dinosaur" from. Latin is the language of paleontology. Therefore the St.Jerome's 4th century Latin Vulgate must be consulted over all other languages if we want to understand dinosaurs in Scripture.

Latin words that mean dinosaur
www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/latin-word-for-dd28db90cbdcd02fa63a2f16b0d79b11ab268194.html

Here we notice the leviathan is mentioned as well as giants. 

The word "dinosaur" in modern taxonomy, however, refers primarily to land dwelling reptiles from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. But those are the taxonomies according to modern man. Though when we read "reptile terrae" we read two Latin words that literally mean "reptile earth." However, the word "terrae" can also be expressed as the Latin "planeta" (planet). Since the word "dinosaur" means reptile and lizard, the word "reptile" can reasonably be transliterated to the Latin phrase "dinosaurus planeta" (dinosaur planet)! This is not some wild attempt at mental gymnastics either. The transliteration is used today by Latin speaking people.




Dinosaurs are both reptiles and great beasts of the earth. Since the word "dinosaur" was not a word until 1841, it would be a highly unusual and unfair display of arrogance to hold the Bible down to modern words. The phrase "reptile terrae" absolutely covers dinosaurs.

Another Biblical word used to describe dinosaurs is the word "dragon." The following Old Testament Scripture references describing dinosaurs as "dragons."

Dan.14 - Bel and the Dragon! The Latin words used in this account are "draconem" and "draconis."

This dragon was worshiped by the Babylonians. I don't think they would make a big deal about modern reptiles and lizards. This dragon was something of Babylonian pride that they worshiped. And dinosaurs would have been rare back in the days of Daniel. What kind of dinosaur this was is uncertain. But Daniel killed the dinosaur to prove to the Babylonians that worshiping dinosaurs is pointless. Although the account is Apocrypha, its still ancient and an authentic writing. The event took place long before 1840 when dinosaurs were pronounce an extinct species.

Reference: "1. In scientific usage, any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct. [from c. 1840]"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dinosaur?fbclid=IwAR3O4zUL_ejp9md51z4WWmWACapp8oAGPNJ8aKrPedRb0AGBeuktmRKbajc

And here, in Genesis 1:26, we read "reptile terrae" which means dinosaur planet in general modern usage.

God created reptiles small. Even the giant Sauropods were small reptiles when created. But reptiles can continue growing their entire life. Since man's life span in the Antediluvian period was approximately 1000 years, it is only in fairness to conclude that reptiles also lived longer lives back then. This means the small Sauropod created on Day 6 would become a giant. By the time the Flood came, roughly about 1600 or 1800 years after creation, dinosaurs would be ginormous.

Here are some other Scripture references to dinosaurs:

▪️Job 40:15-24 - Behemoth/Sauropod (Possibly a Brachiosaurus)
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2040%3A15-24&version=KJV&fbclid=IwAR3FUjvviIzX-kRh4H1yuGf5Be0Dsibpp0xmu2OgAgKHQDV75KGKaNmASUA


▪️Job 41:1-10 - Leviathan
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2041%3A1-10&version=KJV&fbclid=IwAR1J9urhp9lrAAbEUri0gii7gIrcxCs0PobJX7EgNqrwRnCKFEhwn9-IQJg

▪️Isaiah 27:1 - Leviathan
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2027%3A1%20&version=KJV&fbclid=IwAR2qBG7mrzlNSwkdPIMSWgp3QYF6mzNe7hEmSP3DMrVOwy7HQfkDUqR59II

▪️Isaiah 51:9 - Dragon
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isa+51%3A9&version=MEV

▪️Jeremiah 51:34 - Dragon
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer%2051%3A34&version=KJV&fbclid=IwAR2qBG7mrzlNSwkdPIMSWgp3QYF6mzNe7hEmSP3DMrVOwy7HQfkDUqR59II

▪️Psalm 104:25-26 - Leviathan
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20104%3A25-26&version=KJV&fbclid=IwAR0AuRRziKK72tylMLNkpl3A7u4fmiWlqmp0xsZmB39_UNHsnbLVj_TFvCE

▪️Isaiah 30:6 - Flying Serpent/Pterosaur/Pterodactyl
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20Isaiah%2030%3A6%20&version=KJV&fbclid=IwAR3RHYYzv3g8SQwVBdDoxIjyPURt2ZXtheazC4siiqS2kxSP9cPpGsDfRkA

▪️Wisdom 11:17-19 - Theropods
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Wisdom%2011%3A17-19%20&version=RSV&fbclid=IwAR2x-At8gBvAOwKCSANgZQwEEkrJY1ssfL8V6KhJuDnmHV9L0uA7LSDPlX8


▪️Daniel 14:23-29 - Dragon

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%2014%3A23-29&version=RSVCE&fbclid=IwAR3KwaVIRcx0v-v3ZXQ78kIs5OIY7_AL_mpmVx5mlgV_VEbMMDPppRWKkp0

A compliment to Isaiah 30:6 comes from the more ancient Sumerian/Babylonian account: "The Epic of Gilgamesh" (Penguin Classics, p.181 - line 86),

"In its branches a Thunderbird had hatched its brood."

This ancient Sumerian legend of the Thunderbird found its way to North America. What is being described here is a Pteranodon or Pterodactyl.
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🌎Genesis 1:26-27 -- creation of mankind

👉 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.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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.

The Triune Being of God created mankind on Day 6 as well. God created mankind unique, separate in stature from the rest of the wild kingdom. God created man in His own image and likeness. Furthermore, God gave man dominion over all the wild kingdom. Human dominance on earth is seen throughout the pages of history. We humans build great cities, fly airplanes, go to the moon, land machines built by man on Mars. Mankind is truly unique. This is because God created us as a special creation.


The earth is rich in nutrients our bodies need to survive. The earth itself is a living planet. In Genesis 2:7 it says,

👉 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

God created man from the dust...the earth. The word translated "dust" is Strong's H6083 עָפָר ʻâphâr,


God breathed into man's nostrils and man became a living soul.

Who is God? This is the most important question. Because if this question cannot be answered by the believer then the believer can be led into a great many falsehoods.

God is the only Eternal Living Being. God made man out of the earth but it was God's powerful hand working the creation of man. God breathed into man a soul. The soul is of God. Our soul does not make us One with God, or little gods. It means our soul is immortal and only God Himself can condemn it. This is why hell is eternal. Those who chose to separate themselves from Christ will be sent to hell where their souls never die but yet are brought to condemnation for an eternity. God Is an Eternal Being, The Singularity of all there is, was, or ever will be. The only reason why mankind cannot live forever is because of the curse God placed on man and the rest of creation after the fall.

God not only gave man dominion over the earth, but God told them to multiply and, in the KJV, "replenish" the earth. Our modern translations use just plain "fill the earth" in this verse. Old Earth Creationists claim the word means that God created other men before Adam. Yet it is also written there was no death before Adam. So OEC has made up a narrative that is not correct.


✅Replenish defined by the 1828 Webster's Dictionary.

✅Strong's H4390 מָלֵא mâlêʼ defines it as,
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4390&t=KJV&fbclid=IwAR33Q_EeLL-38BOPtKnTSdCtppLTUHEPAA_HHQtr9jWrhcAv9RxfViYV2l8

Now in context with the rest of Scripture is very clear that modern translations have done justice by translating mâlêʼ as "fill." Even in the KJV the word meant fill. You can read literature from America's founding fathers and the word "replenish" is used to mean "fill." It does not mean death before Adam like OEC claims.

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🌎Genesis 2:21-24 -- Eve

21 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;

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 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.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."

God here is performing the world's very first general anesthetic surgery. God removed one of Adam's ribs, extracting Adam's DNA from it to create Eve. After the surgery God closed up the flesh as an surgeon would.

God creates woman from man for the purpose of creating a special bond of marriage between man and woman -- "and they shall become one flesh."

Here concludes the lesson on the Day 6.


On Day 7, God ceased from His work of creation and dedicated that Day to Himself and the work He had done. God created the earth and all that therein is. Therefore God knew He had the right to enjoy one Day of His creation before sin enters the world. God created the earth for us and He only enjoyed one Day of it for Himself. God is most definitely NOT selfish!

Missing the point of the text? Look, I just harmonized the whole chapter. I hate the idea of bragging here since it was God Who gifted me in interpreting prophecy, but last I checked nobody has ever given a scientific harmonization of the account quite like I just did. Generally speaking, the best harmonization is most likely the way it happened.  I already know it isn't perfect. But for what its worth it answers some of the hardest questions faced by Christians today with solid exegesis that does not deviate from a single verse in the account. 

The Strong's I quoted from has a super solid reputation. The Strong's is inexpensive, exhaustive, easy to use, and found in just about every Christian's home. From my experience using multiple lexicons, the Strong's does a fine job supplying accurate word definitions. The BDB is total junk, the Atari to the Strong's Play Station. The BDB follows the KJV more than it does the Hebrew and is NOT user friendly. I have the BDB and never use it. The Strong's is user friendly and it does the job just fine. Its a huge hardcover book loaded with useful information for a very cheap price. 

Yes. If your point is that Genesis 1 “must be harmonized with science,” then you’re missing the point of the text.

Once you break your fear of the State gods (i.e., humans who think they are gods among men) then you will learn to love the Gospel so much more than ever before. But you have to break your fear of the State. They are not gods. They are fools (Psalms 14:1).

It's also kind of odd that you identity "science" with "the State." Especially if you're American...😂