From: Jesse Nall (jnall@alltel.net)
Date: Sat Jan 23 1999 - 21:53:43 EST
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<P>On Friday Jan 22 Jim West wrote:<BR>>My point is merely that perhaps,
again, perhaps, the focus<BR>>of v.1 is the "land" in the narrow
sense of the land of Israel; and that<BR>>from THERE the author expands his
horizons to the whole of the universe.<BR>In<BR>>other words, God starts with
the "land" and makes all the rest of creation<BR>>around it.</P>
<P>Could v.1 be Speaking of the "world to come whereof we speak" Heb
2:5 as though it had been done and meaning Heaven (Christ and His CO-rulers) and
the earth (the righteous population) of the future Kingdom of Christ? Then it
might make more sense to state "let us make man in our image and after our
likeness" v.26 placing this discourse after man has been judged righteous
and then changed from mortal to immortal into the likeness of Their immortal
image and likeness. No man now is in the image of God except Christ. A treatment
of Gen. as a historical plan of the Spiritual Creation would be of more benefit
to man than its treatment as a history of God’s physical creation. Why
would God waste time telling man who is less than nothing about his Physical
Universal creation. Keep in mind that it may be that God speaks of things that
are to come as though they had already been. Just a thought. I WILL NOW GO HIDE
IN THE CLOSET.</P>
<P>Jesse L. Nall <A
href="mailto:jnall@alltel.net">jnall@alltel.net</A></P>
<P>No Books, No Titles, just an MSE in ph/sci and teaching degrees in physics,
chemistry and biology and now retired and enjoying your knowledgeable
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