Sequential Logic in Creation
The first sentence
Chapter 3
[GEN 1:1] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
What beginning? God has no beginning and He has no end, when we discover the beginning there we will also find an end, but if we do not know the beginning then why are we looking for an end? Therefore this very notion stems from our physical mind instead of the spiritual one.
We will borrow from many sources to amplify logic and then we will test ourselves through the power of logic.
Dogma has nothing to do with logic, it is narrow and authoritative, but is all authority logical, clear or wise?
The Hebrew word ROSH and B? create the first word of Genesis 1 - B'RESHEET. In or at the head, at the start of, head start or simply said: to start with? ?God created heaven and earth.? That's all there's to it, for in this short narration about creation the writer had realized that there is no room in the entire world to contain a detailed account of creation. Nevertheless, what the scribe conveyed through this short summation is the fact that it is not important how, when or how long it took the Almighty to make it all. As it were he said: hey let's start with the fact that God made both heaven and earth and then follow the progress because the sequence of events will explain everything else. Should we speculate or just follow the given story according to the written sequence? Yes and No, YES because logic makes it all clear and NO, because the recorded sequence does not fit. If we take the written sequence, we are lost, but if we take logic first and through its spectacles see the whole story then we have taken hold of the very gift of God, the timeless power of heavenly logic.
▪ Heaven and earth is made, period.
▪ What is important now?
▪ Not heaven, but it is the earth that is formless and void or empty, but empty of what, just as logic would dictate that the earth was out of order or chaotic.
Since logic makes things perfect and perfection describes timelessness where decay, corruption and death is not possible or is nonexistent; logic is God's Spirit of understanding, knowledge and wisdom; in short UKW.
[GEN 1:2] And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
What the scribe is telling us is that although there was nothing, [there was something, but logically it is called nothing because we understand that in order for something to be something it must be orderly and make sense] so there was void? nothing, but the Spirit of God was [brooding] moving over? There was life! [ACTS 17:28] for in Him we live and move and exist. All living things move; the earth and sky were not moving there was no movement of any kind except of the one - God's Spirit.
What was God's Spirit doing? The Hebrew word ?moving? in this case is not really moving, but hovering. Imagine a helicopter hovering over a place and you will visualize God's Spirit hovering over a chaotic mess. Darkness was over the surface of this chaos, so we could not physically see the Spirit because of darkness, therefore logic tells us that in order to see the Spirit one needs light. From now on we associate God's Spirit with light, and if light then intelligence, enlightenment and illumination. We illuminate someone when we explain something using intelligence and clarity, [?Hohmah?, 'Beenah' and 'Da'at' - Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding], as earlier stated, UKW.
Now, let us use logic again and sequence these three: one cannot get knowledge without understanding, can he? So before one gets knowledge one must have understanding, once the understood knowledge is absorbed one would have to practice it, this very practice results in wisdom for it is the wise man that builds a house on the rock, nonetheless he builds it, he acts. The unwise also builds a house, but without knowledge and understanding, on sand. In both cases, we see actions, but one shows wise action and the second unwise. We conclude that wisdom without understanding and knowledge is also void or lifeless. Therefore true wisdom is the three UKW made into one and working in perfect harmony; if not then these are not heavenly, but man-made originating in this hemisphere.
God's Spirit is hovering over darkness, which fills the chaos. What is He/She doing? Imagine that this ?helicopter? hovers over a spot; it either is rescuing someone or is about to land, since there is nothing to rescue yet He is about to land. But when does He/She land?
[GEN 1:3] Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Here we understand that He/She had landed and brought forth light. Only in light, we understand we comprehend, we see. Now we have more light we begin to see something immerging from something we could not see before. We see that once this blob of a chaotic mass was composed of all the matter that exists in the Universe.
Our scientists have confirmed that the planets, like Mars or Saturn, once contained life because of the evidence of water, but now they are lifeless; what happened? These planets, as it were, served the earth by giving up their oxygen and water impregnating the earth with life; the Creator separated them from the earth just as later on the earth's continents pulled away from each other. The planets and stars keep on serving the earth; the whole Universe ?is preoccupied? with the Earth, just as heaven rejoices over the one that repents. (Luke 15:7 "I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.)
The great philosopher Baruch Spinoza concluded that all particles within the Universe come from one common source. The Bible shows this fact to be so in no uncertain terms for indeed everything comes from the ONE. God is Spirit and His domain is timeless and never spliced, but one. Actually the entire Universe expends just as our earth grows in size, perhaps... to make room for all the people that yet will fill it. The rings of the Universe become wider signifying the fact that new galaxies are being born and the universe expands. In recent years we have witnessed this occurrence and the new discoveries - with many a theory - excite our minds.
GEN 1:4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
The first account of separation takes place; God is splitting one from the other, but what does it mean? It was all once one, but God is now splicing it repeatedly. This splicing was necessary at the point of creation or rather by then it was already segregation.
What we have inherited is an already fragmented world and if that was not enough, in our minds, we have spliced it some more, but is it really what we aught to do? Splicing is easy, breaking things into pieces is too, but putting things together is not so easy.
Today our job is to not splice it anymore, but to put things into harmonious order and reveal the original oneness for only then we will know the ONE GOD.
We conclude that the separation, splicing and segregation is only for the physical sphere while the spiritual sphere remain one and the same, and since we seek to comprehend the spiritual realm we must forsake the fragmented earthly thinking and grasp the union of the ONE.
This union is perfect logic and this is not developed, but given; just as faith is not developed, but is God's gift; it is one of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We have the first account of calling something good, God called the light good, but did He call darkness bad? No, there is no account of such statement for whatever is temporary or fixed in time is just that; let's leave it at that, our logic is not His, we conclude that if He called light good then darkness must be evil, but according to what standard?
GEN 1:5 And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Calling and naming continues. But what does it mean? The act of naming represents the usage of authority; in this case it is God's authority, and He exemplifies the power of His absolute authority. Later on man receives similar authority to do the same.
GEN 1:6 Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
?Separate? is the word and He separates waters from the waters. This separation has an aim, He separated females from males for reasons of procreation in the physical form, which is a mirror of the spiritual where male and female are one therefore looking from a creative point of view very potent. In this case, the picture is male above and female below, light, rain, temperature changes etc. The earth is being infused with life, just as male infuses a female in another respect. God gave the Torah to men; it came from above down to earth. Therefore man must be the head for he infuses his family with something from God, if he does not do his job, the female is then activated to do man's job, and in some cases they do a better job than males, but the original creation eventually takes preeminence.
GEN 1:7-8 And God made the expanse, and separated the waters, which were below the expanse from the waters, which were above the expanse; and it was so and God called the expanse heaven and there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
By pulling up other bodies, which later formed themselves into planets, and by drawing them farther from the planet earth God created the sky thus enlarged earth's expense and actually this continues on today. The earth spewed lava, formed mountains, valleys, islands, riverbeds, lakes and oceans. The tectonic plates deepened ocean beds forcing dry land to appear.
Separating and naming is the first phase of authority.
GEN 1:9-10 Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so and God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
GEN 1:11-13 Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with seed in them, on the earth"; and it was so.
And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good and there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
However, did it really spring up then, were the plants already green and physical, or were they first in a form of a reflection of that which was in God's mind?
Yes, these were not yet in a physical form; spiritually God made them, but they did not sprout yet in physical forms. Actually, we see that only in chapter two where God made enclosures from the earth's dust, which God had reclaimed from the waters.
Logic tells us that chapter one speaks about spiritual creation while chapter two speaks about the physical creation, and here is the interplay of words: Adam and ADAMAH, we have man called Adam [the same word used in the creation of the spiritual Adam as well as the physical one later on].