Genesis One Analyzed

Koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Visiting Professor

Department of Liberal Education

Kyungpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea

Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

Australia

In verse 9 on Day Three A, Moses did not say “and God made” = TB. God said something to be made but Moses did not say that God made it after He said it. Does that mean that God did not make it? Does that mean that it evolved by itself? The answer lies in the choice of Moses not to add the words there. What it means is, if you look at register one and register two in the all the columns above, you will notice that register one has WB all the way through. God invited every time something to be made. He took initiative and suggested that something has to be created. We call this speaking of His thoughts, WB or a Word Deed. It is a verbal action. The procedure of creation is to speak to the Trinity and ask their permission or agreement or feeling about it and then to turn around and do what they in consensus agreed upon. It cannot be angels since angels are creatures and cannot create. Angels did not create together with God. It has to be divine and the Trinity fits the profile the best. This speaking of God or Jesus to the Trinity is called WB or verbal action or Word Deed in our key of the diagram. The verses are indicated where God repeated this phrase “God said: Let there be . . . .”

When we come to the second register, there is a possibility of two phrases, either TB or WK in our abbreviations. TB is the actual deed of Creation and thus the Action Deed “and God made . . .”. WK is an abbreviation of a Hebrew phrase wayehi ken translated as “and it was so”. When God speaks His thoughts and gets approval from the Trinity, it happens and that is considered that He made it. The happening is by Him and the wayehi ken or “and it was so” is intertwined with it and does not stand loose of origins. It was made by God instantaneously since the next day something else was to be made.

The register two and three had items in common, either TB or WK. The verses are indicated where Moses mentioned the particular phrase involved.

On day one Moses left out in register three the phrase WK wayehi ken “and it was so”. On day three A with the creation of the sea and the land it does not say “and God made” = TB. Moses left that out, why? Directly from “Let us made . . .” to “it was so”.

Let us ask ourselves whether it implies that God did not make it? The answer is negative since all were created by God and nothing came into being without Him.

If it possible that Moses wanted to keep the rhythm of every day equal. Notice that all columns from Day one to Day five had some part missing, not because it did not happen, but because Moses wanted only four items in a column.

Day six has six items though.

The aspect of the omission of enumerations for Day 3B until Day six can be understood since God asked Adam to name them.

The use of TOB is from the Hebrew word tob which means “good”. “And God saw that it was good”. This phrase reoccurs throughout the Genesis report except on day two. When humans were made God said it was very good, distinguishing them from the monkeys made on day Six A, the morning, which was just “good” without the superlative. There is no connection between monkeys and humans in the Creation Report of Moses on Day six.

No mission to reproduce, multiply and rework the earth was given to the creeping animals on Day six A before the creation of humans. Only humans had this mission so that again monkeys or any ape family was not give the task of reworking the earth and they never did in the history of the apes. Ape towns and ape cities have never been discovered in the history of mankind.

The order of the strings in the columns may have different positions but they all follow the same trends so that even in the omissions, it is legitimate to suggest that they were originally in. Moses just wanted to leave them out for some form of rhythm which may have to do with educational tools that they created in the form of a chant to teach the Kindergarten children how to memorize the Creation Report. We do it sometimes when the take Psalm 23 and transform it into a song. We leave out things, change the order and shorten things so that rhythm is maintained. Just so that a Psalm can fit the straight jacket of some melody or harmony that we want to achieve.

Despite the order of items thrown around, despite the omission of some items, one cannot miss the order of events in the creation of items. One cannot miss the presence of God in all the actions. Nothing came to being without Him speaking and making it.

Notice something. The creation actions are enwrapped with actions of God before the action of creation and with actions of enumeration, “it is good” statements or TOB sayings, mission declarations or blessings after the action of creation. From start to end of creation, God is involved. The actual creation report is about one fifth of the report, Four fifths of the report is about the actions of God before, during or after the act of creation. This report is not so much about creation as it is about God when He creates.