God's Original Command and Plan for Humanity in Genesis 1

 Gen 1:27
 So God created man in his own image,
 in the image of God he created him;
 male and female he created them.

 Broad brush overview
 Chapter 2 will zoom in for more detail
 Just like Chapter 1 zoomed in for more
detail after 1:1

 Gen 1:28 "Be fruitful and increase in
number; fill the earth…
 In the LXX, all 3 are imperatives, but
different “voices”…

 Gen 1:28 God blessed them and said to
them, "Be fruitful and increase in
number….
 verb imperative present middle 2nd
person plural
 imperative , middle
 The boy will have himself baptized
tomorrow.

 verb imperative present passive 2nd
person plural
 imperative passive
 “The boy will be baptized tomorrow.”

 verb imperative aorist active 2nd person
plural
 imperative active
 You all baptize the boy tomorrow (then
he will be baptized).

 Dr. Henry Morris says (1:28, Defenders Study Bible),
“God’s first command to man was that of producing
abundant progeny sufficient to fill the earth (not
replenish, a misleading translation of the Hebrew
word male).”
 Genesis Record, pg. 76, “The King James translation
used the term “replenish”, but this does not suggest
the idea of “refilling” either in the Old English term
itself or the Hebrew word from which it is translated.
The Hebrew word is male, and means simply “fill,”
“fulfill,” or “be filled.” Of the more than 300 times it is
used, it is translated (in KJV) by “replenish” only 7
times; and even these could as well have been
rendered “fill”. It is certainly erroneous to use this one
verse as a proof text for the gap theory, as many
have done.”

 NIV Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and
said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in
number; fill the earth and subdue it.…
 KJV Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them,
and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth,…
 NAU Genesis 1:28…fill the earth…
 LXE Genesis 1:28 …fill the earth …
 NKJ Genesis 1:28 …fill the earth…

 plhrw,sate verb imperative aorist
active 2nd person plural

 [UBS] plhro,w fulfill, make come true,
bring about (of Scripture); fill, make full;
bring to completion; complete,
accomplish, finish; make fully known,
proclaim fully (Ro 15.19; Col 1.25); supply
fully (Php 4.18, 19); pass. elapse, pass (of
time)

 OT:4390, male' (maw-lay'); or mala' (Est
7:5) (maw-law'); a primitive root, to fill or
(intransitively) be full of, in a wide
application (literally and figuratively):

 KJV - accomplish, confirm, consecrate, be
at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil,
(be, become, draw, give in, go) full (-ly, -ly
set, tale), [over-] flow, fulness, furnish, gather
(selves, together), presume, replenish,
satisfy, set, space, take a [hand-] full, have
wholly.

 Gen 9:1-2 Then God blessed Noah and his
sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in
number and fill the earth.
 Gen 9:7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in
number; multiply on the earth and increase
upon it."
 Gen 35:11 And God said to him, "I am God
Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number…
 Jer 23:3 "I myself will gather the remnant of my
flock out of all the countries where I have
driven them and will bring them back to their
pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase
in number.

 Is birth control contrary to God’s
command and will?
 I’m only aware of one reference to birth
control in the Bible.
 Gen 38:10 What he did was wicked in
the Lord's sight; so he put him to death
also.

 Gen 1:28 God blessed them and said to
them, "Be fruitful and increase in number;
fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the
fish of the sea and the birds of the air
and over every living creature that
moves on the ground."

 Verse 28 is God’s first command to
humans and with it He inaugurates the
first of many “dispensations.”

 God gives a command as an expression
of His will
 Man breaks God commandment
 God punishes mans rebellion
 God institutes another dispensation

 Innocence, Gen. 1:28
 Conscience, Gen. 3:7
 Human Government, Gen. 8:15
 Promise, Gen. 12:1
 Law, Ex. 19:1
 Church Age (Age of Grace), Acts 2:1
 Kingdom Age, Rev.20:4

 I would add at least 1 more dispensation
(even though there won’t be the
breaking, and judgment).
 Rev 20:7 When the thousand years are
over…
 Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and
a new earth, for the first heaven and the
first earth had passed away, and there
was no longer any sea.

 Matt 11:11-12 I tell you the truth: Among those born of
women there has not risen anyone greater than John the
Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is
greater than he.
 Matt 5:17-18 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the
Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but
to fulfill them.
 Matt 26:29 I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine
from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in
my Father's kingdom."
 Acts 1:6-8 So when they met together, they asked him,
"Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to
Israel?" 7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know the
times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

 Eph 1:9-11 He made known to us the mystery of His
will, according to His kind intention which He
purposed in Him 10 with a view to an administration
suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the
summing up of all things in Christ, things in the
heavens and things on the earth. In Him…NASU
 Eph 3:8-9…to preach to the Gentiles the
unfathomable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light
what is the administration of the mystery which for
ages has been hidden in God…NASU
 1 Tim 1:4…myths and endless genealogies, which
give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering
the administration of God which is by faith. NASU

 Could Adam and Eve had a right
relationship with God if they never ate from
that tree?
 Could we had a right relationship with God
if we never ate from any tree?
 God changes not! So what’s the deal?
 God does deal with different people in
various ways during different time periods.
 Go command an ax head to float, oceans
to divide, water to turn to blood or wine, or
the dead to rise up and walk. Nothing! Did
God change?

 Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the
fulness of times he might gather together in
one all things in Christ KJV

 Eph 3:2 If ye have heard of the
dispensation of the grace of God which is
given me to youward: KJV

 Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister,
according to the dispensation of God
which is given to me for you, to fulfil the
word of God; KJV

 House Law

 oivkonomi,an noun accusative feminine
singular common
 [UBS] oivkonomi,a, management of a
household; task, work, responsibility;
(divine) plan (Eph1.10; 3.9; 1 Tm 1.4)
 We get English “economy” from it

 Gen 1:29-30 Then God said, "I give you
every seed-bearing plant on the face of
the whole earth and every tree that has
fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for
food. 30 And to all the beasts of the
earth and all the birds of the air and all
the creatures that move on the ground
— everything that has the breath of life
in it — I give every green plant for food."
And it was so.

 Seed-bearing plants
 Almost all of our vegetables are seed-
bearing plants
 When pollination occurs, the seeds start
to develop, triggering a hormone
change, which stimulates fruit growth.

 Every tree that has fruit with seed in it.
 Not the tree dummy
 But the fruit with seed in it. They will be
yours for food.
 Some think that this verse is saying to eat
the fruit and seed in it.
 Kent Hovind tells of a culture that grows
lots of apricots and eats the seeds and
have zero cancer.

 Instead, I asked if acupuncture really
works?
 He said, “Have you ever seen a sick
porcupine?

 Gen 9:2-3 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the
beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every
creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish
of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that
lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the
green plants, I now give you everything.
 Acts 10:12-13 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals,
as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. 13 Then a
voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."
 Mark 14:12-18…it was customary to sacrifice the Passover
lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to
go and make preparations for you to eat the
Passover?"….So they prepared the Passover…..one of you
will betray me — one who is eating with me."
 Luke 24:41-43…."Do you have anything here to eat?" 42
They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and
ate it in their presence.

 If God said it was very good how good
do you suppose it was.
 Gen. 1:31 had to be before all the
death, disease, disaster, and destruction
revealed in the fossil record, also the fall
of 1/3 of God’s angels and Satan, man
losing sovereignty over earth, and Satan
becoming “the god of this age” (2Cor.
4:4) and “the present evil age” (Gal. 1:4).

 Ezek 28:12-14 'This is what the Sovereign
Lord says: "'You were the model of
perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in
beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of
God; every precious stone adorned you:
ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx
and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl.
Your settings and mountings were made of
gold; on the day you were created they
were prepared. 14 You were anointed as a
guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You
were on the holy mount of God; you
walked among the fiery stones.

 Gen 1:31 God saw all that he had made,
and it was very good. And there was
evening, and there was morning — the sixth
day.
 Keep in mind that this is after Eve was
created.
 Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God he created
him; male and female he created them.
 So it’s not a problem when God says;
 Gen 2:18 The Lord God said, "It is not good
for the man to be alone.

 John MacArthur says (in his MacArthur Study Bible) about 1:31
“very good”, “What had been pronounced
good individually (vv. 4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25) was
now called “very good” collectively. The words
anticipated God’s conclusion that it was “not
good” for a man to be alone (2:18), which
occurred on the sixth day.”
 John’s use of “anticipated God’s conclusion”
confuses me. Chapter 2:18 chronologically
comes (in the broader view of chapter 1) in
Gen 1:27 “So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God he created him;
[Chapter 2:18-23] male and female he created
them.”

 Each days conclusion of, “it was good”,
refers to that days work. It is not
addressing the fact that all the work of
creation week was not finished (“not
good”). God’s statement that it was “not
good for a man to be alone” in 2:18, had
to occurred on the sixth day, after
creating male and before creating
female.

 Don’t let anyone confuse you, Chapter 1
is an expanded explanation of what
God said He did in Gen. 1:1. Which He
explained even more completely in
Genesis Chapter 1. He then zoomed in
on specifics in chapter 2.

 Proto Evangelium.
 Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between
you and the woman, and between your
offspring and hers; he will crush your
head, and you will strike his heel.“
 All major doctrines are not completely
revealed by the first mention.

 Chapter 1 focuses on God creating
 Chapter 2 focuses on God creating man

 August 29, 2012
 Harvard scientists have broken the record for
the data storage density in DNA, having
"successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data -
around 700 terabytes - in a single gram of DNA,
smashing the previous DNA data density
record by a thousand times." Nothing made by
humans can approach these kind of specs.
Who would have thought that DNA can store
data more efficiently than anything we've
created. But DNA wasn't designed - right?
- Evolution News & Views

 INTELLIGENT DESIGN NEWS

 8.31.2012 9:19PM
 DNA Stores Data More Efficiently than Anything We've Created
 Casey Luskin August 29, 2012 12:39 PM | Permalink
 A fasincating story at ExtremeTech.com, "Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram," reports that Harvard scientists
have broken the record for the data storage density in DNA. According to the story, they "successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data -- around 700 terabytes -
- in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times." To give an idea of how much information that is,
Wikipedia reports that Google processes about 25 petabits of information each day. So this method, apparently, could store all of Google's daily
information in less than 5 grams of DNA. The ExtremeTech.com article puts it this way:
 Just think about it for a moment: One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data. That's 14,000 50-gigabyte Blu-ray discs... in a droplet of DNA that
would fit on the tip of your pinky. To store the same kind of data on hard drives -- the densest storage medium in use today -- you'd need 233 3TB drives,
weighing a total of 151 kilos. In Church and Kosuri's case, they have successfully stored around 700 kilobytes of data in DNA -- Church's latest book, in fact
-- and proceeded to make 70 billion copies (which they claim, jokingly, makes it the best-selling book of all time!) totaling 44 petabytes of data stored.
 So how did they do it? According to the article, the project
 treats DNA as just another digital storage device. Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that
store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1, A and C = 0).
 And of course, what this means is "Scientists have been eyeing up DNA as a potential storage medium for a long time." There are good reasons for this:
 First, the article reports DNA is "incredibly dense (you can store one bit per base, and a base is only a few atoms large)."
 Second, DNA is "volumetric (beaker) rather than planar (hard disk)," again meaning you can pack it in efficiently.
 Finally, DNA is "incredibly stable -- where other bleeding-edge storage mediums need to be kept in sub-zero vacuums, DNA can survive for hundreds of
thousands of years in a box in your garage." This means that unlike magnetic hard drives which have a comparatively short lifespan, DNA could store
data for a long time.
 Nothing made by humans can approach these kind of specs. Who would have thought that DNA can store data more efficiently than anything we've
created. But DNA wasn't designed -- right?


 The Efficient Storage Capacity of DNA
 August 29, 2012
 Harvard scientists have broken the record for the data storage density in DNA, having "successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data - around 700 terabytes - in
a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times." Nothing made by humans can approach these kind of
specs. Who would have thought that DNA can store data more efficiently than anything we've created. But DNA wasn't designed - right?
- Evolution News & Views



 “Mitochondrial DNA and a Recent Human Origin.”
 A team of scientists that includes Dr. Daniel Criswell of ICR has
…completed a study of mitochondrial DNA …[presented
at]…International Conference on Creationism… the
mitochondrion has its own small DNA molecule and this DNA
is passed down from mother to child. The study has revealed
an unexpected lack of diversity within worldwide human
mitochondrial lineages, despite high mutation rates, and this
supports the idea that humanity is only a few thousand years
old.
 …it contains several interesting tenets: 1) there was a single
dispersal of mankind with three main mitochondrial lineages
interspersed within clans; 2) the dispersion was centered in
the Middle East in the recent past; 3) the dispersion was
essentially tribal in nature, with small groups pushing into

 “Mitochondrial DNA and a Recent Human Origin.”
 A team of scientists that includes Dr. Daniel Criswell of ICR has
…completed a study of mitochondrial DNA …[presented
at]…International Conference on Creationism… the
mitochondrion has its own small DNA molecule and this DNA
is passed down from mother to child. The study has revealed
an unexpected lack of diversity within worldwide human
mitochondrial lineages, despite high mutation rates, and this
supports the idea that humanity is only a few thousand years
old.
 …it contains several interesting tenets: 1) there was a single
dispersal of mankind with three main mitochondrial lineages
interspersed within clans;

 2) the dispersion was centered in the Middle East in the
recent past; 3) the dispersion was essentially tribal in nature,
with small groups pushing into previously uninhabited territory;
and 4) genetic evidence indicates that male lineages are
much more geographically specific than female lineages,
with female migration rates up to eight times greater than
males. This latter tenet is an expression of the Babel account
in Genesis, where the initial, well-mixed population split up
and migrated according to paternal lineage. The biblical
model fits very well with data collected in these evolutionary
studies.
 The ICR team began an exploration of changes in
mitochondrial DNA by collecting and culling publicly-
available human DNA ….

 …. Eve 1.0, is nearly identical to the original mitochondrial
sequence--that of Eve, the first woman and the mother of
every person who has ever lived. And because the
mitochondrial genome is subject to high mutation rates, the
lack of significant worldwide variation is evidence for a young
mitochondrial genome. The complete paper, The "Eve"
Mitochondrial Consensus Sequence…presented at the 6th
International Conference on Creationism in Pittsburgh, PA, in
August 2008.

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