Sequential Logic in Creation
Let Logic make it all clear
Chapter 5
GEN 1:26-31 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food "; and it was so. And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
1. God speaks and establishes things by His word and it is so as He declares them to be, but as we read in chapter 2 these things were not instantly made physical, but initially as souls. [A soul definition is found elsewhere]
2. The name ELOHIM is here used, which later on is called YHVH, both names deal with life, EL HAIM God of LIVES, life in Hebrew is never one, but plural. YHVH has to be red from back to front the last letter being HEI and the first YUD, combine them together and you begin with HI or HAY, which means life. HAIYA - HOO - HA - YEHEE - HA - YAH - HOO - HI. It means: He always existed or lived, He is or He has always lived and always had life in Himself; He is LIFE. (Although the word 'Chaieem' means life and it begins with the letter CHET it does not change the fact that God is life.) All Names of God deal with LIFE. Jesus said: [JOHN 10:10B] "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.' Why? Because He was introducing to us the Father in a nonreligious way.
3. As God had life, He was-is life so He makes something of the same kind. When one looks at own image in a mirror one sees left ear as right, left eye as right; what does that mean? "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness'
The word IMAGE [TZELEM in Hebrew] means reflection. There you have it, we reflect God in a different dimension, which is the earth, and we were meant to reflect God the Spirit spiritually on this physical earth. Sequential logic tells us that what's left below is right in the Kingdom of God, and what's right down here is left up there. But since Genesis 1:26 speaks about ELOHIM - God the Spirit making creature after His own kind we cannot see it in any other way, but one; at that point He is making a spiritual being with inherent properties, which are meant to be manifested later on within the sequence of His creation. This aspect of reflection is simple because as we understand it here on earth a mirror reflects an example of something real or true; are we therefore true? 'No' and 'yes', 'no' because as long as we try to reflect God on earth through our own efforts we falsify and twist His true image, which actually is no image at all. We have not made ourselves, and as far as the divine is concerned, from our own selves we can do nothing. Our image of God is not accurate, for we are too much flesh and matter oriented, and in our mind whatever is visible and tangible can be reflected. 'Yes' because in our spirit man we can reflect God on earth by simply losing any self-identity and accept God identity as our own. Eventually this sort of thinking will transform us into divine beings that walk this earth as a reflection of their Maker, hence His extensions.
4. Later on we will see that some individuals have had achieved it and were spiritually dissolved into that which they were interpreting, or in other words, were busy with.
Now that we have arrived at the point of understanding the creation of mankind in the original form, which in earthly terms cannot even be called a form at all, just like the original state of universe was spiritual - formless before it was formed into a tangible form, so it was with us. We were God in the purest formless aspect of the word.
Nothing went wrong and the future understanding will completely explain it. As we interpret it that the entire world corrupted itself, but did it really; let time have its fill, and when time is satisfied with its corrupting effect then the Maker will conclude this phase of creation, as intended, revealing the absolute genius of His plan. Part of that genius we are dealing with right now.