Creation of the world according to the Bible in detail. History of the primitive church. Creation of the earth - the visible world

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.The earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters.And God said: let there be light. And there was light.And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.And God called the light day, and the darkness night. And there was evening and there was morning: one day.

And God said: Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate water from water.And God created the firmament, and separated the water that was under the firmament from the water that was above the firmament. And it became so.And God called the firmament sky. And there was evening and there was morning: the second day.

And God said, Let the waters that are under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it became so.And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of waters he called the seas. And God saw that This well.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, grass yielding seed, fruitful tree yielding fruit after its kind, in which is its seed, on the earth. And it became so.And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, in which is its seed after its kind. And God saw that This well.And there was evening and there was morning: the third day.

And God said: Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to separate the day from the night, and for signs, and times, and days, and years;and let them be lamps in the firmament of heaven to give light to the earth. And it became so.And God created two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars;and God set them in the firmament of heaven to shine on the earth,and govern the day and the night, and separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that This well.And there was evening and there was morning: the fourth day.

And God said, Let the water bring forth reptiles, living creatures; and let the birds fly over the earth, in the firmament of heaven.And God created great fish, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that This well.And God blessed them, saying: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.And there was evening and there was morning: the fifth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind. And it became so.And God created the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing on the earth after its kind. And God saw that This well.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, 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 have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed that is in all the earth, and every tree bearing fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you this will be for food;but to all the beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the air, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which there is a living soul, gave I eat all herbal greens. And it became 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.

The earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters.

And God said: let there be light. And there was light.

And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

And God called the light day, and the darkness night. And there was evening and there was morning: one day.

And God said: Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate water from water. And it became so.

And God created the firmament. And God called the firmament sky. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning: the second day.

And God said, Let the waters that are under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it became so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of waters he called the seas. And God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth vegetation, grass yielding seed (after its kind and likeness), and a fruitful tree yielding fruit after its kind, in which is its seed, on the earth. And it became so. And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, in which is its seed after its kind, upon the earth. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning: the third day.

And God said: Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to illuminate the earth, and to separate the day from the night, and for signs, and times, and days, and years; and let them be lamps in the firmament of heaven to give light to the earth. And it became so. And God created two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars; and God placed them in the firmament of heaven to give light to the earth, and rule over the day and night, and separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning: the fourth day.

And God said, Let the water bring forth reptiles, living creatures; and let the birds fly over the earth, in the firmament of heaven. And it became so. And God created great fish, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

And there was evening and there was morning: the fifth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind. And it became so. And God created the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image and after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air (and over the beasts), 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 have dominion over the fish of the sea (and over the beasts), and over the birds of the air (and over every livestock, and over all the earth), and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is in all the earth... and every tree bearing fruit of a tree yielding seed; - this will be food for you; but to all the beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the air, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all green herbs for food. And it became 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.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God finished His works which He did, and rested on the seventh day from all His works which He did.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it...

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

And the Lord God planted a paradise in Eden in the east, and placed there the man whom he had created. And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” (Gen. 1, 1-31; 2, 1-3, 7-9)

So, magnificent was God's peace given to man as a habitation. Luxurious was the nature that surrounded him; she generously scattered her gifts before him. To live and be blessed - that's what it was appointment man: for this, he was called from non-existence by the Almighty, All-Good, All-Righteous, and therefore the All-Blessed God, who wanted to share His bliss with His beloved creation - man.

That's cause its creation, and at the same time Start his relationship with his Creator. These relations, having received the beginning from the Beginningless and Infinite God Himself, will never have their end.

But the whole point is that, having given life to man, God gave him at the same time free the soul, although created in the image and likeness of God, is free to direct its relations with God both in a good and in a bad direction of its own free will.

How did people make use of this freedom, which was given to them indefinitely and elevates them? In what relationship to God have they placed themselves and are they?

You can trace the history of the relationship between the Creator and creation in the sacred books written by inspired people. The name of these books is Bible, or stories about the life of people from their creation to the incarnation of the Son of God on earth (Old Testament) and from the Nativity of the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, to His death on the Cross for the sake of redemption for mankind who used its freedom for evil (New Testament, Gospel).

It is from this sacred source - Divine Revelation that the “Biblical stories” are offered, available for acquaintance with the history of the union or communication of God with people, which should constitute the initial and main science of man - in order to consciously study his falling away from God or disunity him with God and at the same time tirelessly attracting him to Himself by God, learn to direct yourself to return to the lost paradise - the eternal Kingdom of your Heavenly Father.

Darkness was over the abyss; and the spirit of God hovered over the waters.

God gave order to the material world in six days by His Word.

On the first day, God created light.

God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the light day and the darkness night. And there was evening and there was morning: one day.

On the second day, God created the firmament, or visible sky.

God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters." And God created the firmament; and separated the water that was under the firmament from the water that was above the firmament. And God called the firmament heaven.

On the third day, God separated the water from the earth and created the collections of water on the earth, dry land and plants.

God said, "Let the waters that are under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it became so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of waters he called seas. Then God said: “Let the earth bring forth grass, grass yielding seed, and fruitful trees.” And the earth brought forth grass, grass, and trees.

On the fourth day, God created the luminaries of heaven: the sun, moon and stars.

God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven." And it became so.

On the fifth day God created reptiles, fish and birds.

God said: “Let the water bring forth reptiles, living souls, and let birds fly over the earth in the firmament of heaven.” And God created fish, and reptiles, and every bird. And he blessed them, saying: "be fruitful and multiply."

On the sixth day, God created four-legged animals that live on land.

God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures, cattle, creeping things, and beasts of the earth." And it became so.

Finally, on the sixth day, God created man, male and female.

After the creation of the world, God looked at everything that he created, and saw that everything was very good.

On the seventh day, God rested from all his deeds, blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, that is, appointed that rational creatures especially glorify Him on this day. (.)

Having created the world, God began to provide for the world, that is, to keep it and manage it. Such an act of God is called the providence of God. Therefore, God is called the Almighty and King of heaven and earth.

Creation of man. Heaven on earth. Commandment of God. Animal names. The creation of a wife. God bless husband and wife

At the very creation of man, God was pleased to show His special care for him. Before the creation of man, there was a council between God the Father, the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit. God said, "Let us make man in our image and after our likeness, and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth." After this advice, God created man in his own image. God created the body of man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his face the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

For man, God planted paradise (beautiful garden) in Eden, in the east; and he made in it every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And God settled man in this paradise so that he would cultivate it and keep it.

And God commanded the man: “You will eat from every tree in the garden, but do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for the day you eat of it you will die.”

And God said: “It is not good for a man to be alone; Let us make him a helper fit for him.”

God brought all the animals to man to give them names. The man named the animals, but for him there was no helper like him.

God brought a sound sleep to the man, and when he fell asleep, God took one of his ribs, from this rib he created a wife and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “Behold, this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she will be called woman, for she was taken from man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh."

God blessed the husband and wife and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the beasts and over the birds of the air and over every livestock and over all the earth and over every living thing that creeps on the earth." And God appointed grass with seed and fruits of trees as food for people, and for animals, birds and reptiles - grass grass.

Adam and his wife were naked and not ashamed. (.)

The sin of the forefathers and its consequences. Judgment of God and the promise of a Savior. Punishment for sin

Before man, God created incorporeal spirits called angels, that is, messengers of God.

One of these bright spirits falsely imagined himself equal to God, became proud, did not obey God, and angered many other spirits against God. The rebellious spirits, which became evil spirits, God deprived of light and bliss and cast them out of heaven. The chief of them is called the devil and satan.

The devil envied the bliss of people and wanted to destroy them. One day the wife was near the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The devil entered the serpent, which was more cunning than all animals, and said to her: “Did God really say: do not eat the fruit of any tree in paradise”? The wife answered: “we can eat fruits from trees; only the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God said, do not eat or touch it, lest you die.” The tempter said to his wife: “No, you will not die; but he knows that on the day you eat them, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.” And the woman saw that this tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and that this tree was attractive, because it gives knowledge, and she took its fruit and ate; also gave to her husband, and he ate. Then their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves aprons.

When the evening coolness of the day came, they heard the voice of God walking in paradise, and hid among the trees. God called to Adam: "Where are you"? He answered: “I heard your voice in paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” God asked him: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you not eaten from the tree from which I forbade you to eat? (God asked the man, as if ignorant, in order to incline him to repentance) Adam, thinking to put part of his guilt on his wife, even on God himself, said: “The wife that You gave me, she gave me the fruit from this tree, and I ate." God asked the wife: “What did you do?” The wife said, "The serpent seduced me and I ate."

Then God pronounced such a judgment on the tempter, on the wife and on the husband.

He said to the snake, “Cursed are you because you did this. You will walk on your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; It will strike your head, and you will bruise His heel.”

With these words, God said to the serpent: "you will be a low, despicable and hated animal"; - He said to the devil, who was in the snake: “You will be tormented forever in the distance from God; you will have a constant struggle with people; The seed of the woman, the Savior, who will be born of the Blessed Virgin, will defeat you completely, and you will do Him insignificant harm. These words of the Lord in the sad state of the sinners, but repenting of sin, the forefathers were the first comforting, joyful news, the first gospel of the Savior.

God said to Zhenya: “You will give birth to children in sickness; you will be attracted to your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Adamu said: “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat, cursed is the ground for you; in sorrow you shall eat of it all the days of your life. She will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the grass of the field. In the sweat of your face you will eat bread (until you sweat to get bread) until you return to the ground from which you were taken. You are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Adam, believing the promise of God that all the people who will live on earth will come from a woman, and the giver of life, the Savior Himself, called the name of his wife: Eve (life).

So that people would remember more firmly and believe that the Savior would come to earth and shed His blood for their sins, God commanded them to sacrifice animals to Him. These sacrifices were supposed to represent the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.

So that people would no longer eat the fruits of the tree of life, God expelled them from the Garden of Eden, placed in it a Cherubim and a fiery revolving sword to guard the path to the tree of life. (Ch.)

Having promised a Savior to sinful people, God gradually began to prepare them for receiving Him, and for their salvation people had to believe in the promised Savior and wait for Him. This preparation by God of people for the acceptance of the Savior and their salvation by faith and the Savior promised by God is called the Old Testament (the ancient, old union of God with people).

Orthodox since ancient times considers from the creation of the world to the birth of Christ 5508 years. This number of years from the creation of the world to the Nativity of Christ was accepted by the fathers of the fifth and sixth council (Acts Sob. vol. XVII, p. 123). This reckoning is based on the Greek translation of the Bible, made by 70 interpreters. Therefore, here the years from the creation of the world are counted according to the chronology of 70 interpreters, as it is indicated in the Russian translation of the Bible

About the essence and essential properties of God, Divine revelation informs us of the following concept: God is the Spirit eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omniscient, wise, all-good, who gives everyone as much good as anyone can accept, all-righteous, all-powerful, all-satisfied and all-blessed. As the purest Spirit, God has no body and nothing material in Himself.

Heaven and earth taken together usually signify the whole creation of God. In this place under the sky, based on the interpretation of Blessed Augustine, St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John of Damascus, they understand the heavens of heaven, the invisible world, the spiritual world and the dwelling place of the blessed, and under the earth - the original substance, from which God later created the material world (Record. on M. F. Genesis, M. F. Inscribed Bib, Historical M. F. Dogm. The Theologian M. Macarius, § 64)

Earth is here called the substance of the visible world in general. This original earth, that is, the universal substance of the world, was, according to the testimony of the book of Genesis, formless and empty (according to the Russian translation), invisible and unorganized (according to the Slavic translation), it was something empty and insignificant, amazing emptiness (according to some other translations). This means that the original substance of the world did not have certain qualities, types and forms. Further in the book of Genesis, this same substance is called the abyss, because it occupied an immense space, not delimited by a variety of things, and it is called water, because it did not have any hardness and permanent images, and in this respect approached the property of liquid substances. (Record on the book. Genesis. Inscription. Bib. Ist.)

It is believed that along with the creation of light, some movement followed in the primordial substance, similar to what is now noted in the celestial bodies, dividing the substance into many parts and separating the bright substance of the sun from the substance of the dark celestial bodies, that is, the planets. The first period of this movement, together with the darkness that preceded it, constituted what in Holy Scripture is first called evening and morning, and not only the first day, but one, and, as it were, the only one. On the first day of the world, as well as on the following two days, those actions that the sun now produces were produced by the primordial unorganized light that occupied part of the heavenly space, that is, that mass of light substance from which God created the sun on the fourth day. (Draft. Bibl. Source. Record. on the book of Genesis M.F.)

On the second day, God divided the waters into a firmament. It can be thought that these were waters that contained the substance of dark celestial bodies, that is, planets, which now, having formed more densely around their centers and being confined within constant limits, left a space more permeable to light, or firmament. For the holy writer, the firmament means not only the airy sky, which carries cloudy waters, but also the starry sky, on which, in the course of creation, the luminaries are placed and affirmed at certain distances from each other. (Draft. Bibl. East. M. F.) However, there are other interpretations of the narration of the book of Genesis about the first two days of the creation of the world. In view of the various interpretations of the biblical narrative of the creation of the world by God, it must be remembered that the creation of the world is a mystery, which, according to the words of the Apostle, we understand by faith (.), That the reliability of Holy Scripture extends beyond the limits of our understanding (Blessed Augustine)

Water, in its density and gravity, occupies the middle between air and earth, therefore, during the initial formation of the globe, naturally, it should have covered its entire surface. But, according to the word of the Creator, some parts of the earth's surface went down, while others rose, as a result of which water collected in the low parts of the earth's surface, and the elevated parts of the earth's surface dried up.

Lower plant species that have neither leaves, nor flowers, nor fruits, which are: algae, lichen, mosses

On the fourth day, the luminaries were created, in all likelihood, through perfect concentration in certain places and through the perfect formation of masses of luminous matter, with the establishment of permanent laws and a circle of activity for these celestial bodies (Draft Bib. East. Notes on the book of Genesis)

Actually - multiparous, by which they mean microscopic animals, insects, animals living in water, and amphibians

The rest of God is not inaction. God still makes (.), that is, he produces new creatures, but not new types of creatures, preserves the laws of nature, but does not supply new ones. (Zap. on the book. Gen.)

At the end of each chapter, the books of Holy Scripture from which its content is taken are indicated. The number with a semicolon indicates the chapters of the books, and the number with a dot or semicolon - the verses of the chapters

According to the explanation of the holy fathers of the church, the image of God consists in spirituality, in reason, in the free will and immortality of the human soul, and the likeness of God is in virtue and holiness (Grig. Nis, Klim. Alex, John. Damascus.)

We were created in the image of God, but to become in the likeness of God depends on our will. At creation, we only received the opportunity to be like God (Grig. Nis.)

A river came out of Eden to irrigate paradise and was divided into four rivers: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates. Which rivers were called Pishon and Gihon is not known for certain. Some believe that paradise is in Armenia, and by Pishon they mean the river Phasis, and by Gihon the river Araks. Others believe paradise in southern Mesopotamia, and by Pishon (Pishon) they mean Pallakopas, the branch of the Euphrates, which came out of it near Babylon and flowed along the right side of the Euphrates, to the Persian Gulf, now already dried up; and by Gihon they mean the river Arakhta, a branch of the Euphrates, which separated from it and flowed on its left side. The Tigris and Euphrates are believed to have joined north of Baghdad, where even now these rivers are approaching one another.

The tree of life was such a tree, the fruits of which, eating, a person would be painless and immortal. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is so named because a person, having tasted its fruits, learned by experience what good it is to obey God, and what evil it is not to keep the commandments of God.

God created a wife from a man’s rib so that she would always be close to her husband’s heart, would be disposed to obey him, so that the whole human race would be one body in its origin, and so that people would by nature be disposed to love and protect each other

Hebrew husband ish, wife - isha. Adam could not by himself know what was happening to him during sleep, therefore he uttered these words, according to St. John Chrysostom, a prophetic gift, driven by the Holy Spirit

These words can be taken either from the person of Adam or from the person of Moses, but Jesus Christ attributes them to God (Matt. 19:5). This shows their importance, through whomever they are uttered. They forbid polygamy and arbitrary dissolution of marriage and indicate the high importance of the wife in relation to her husband.

The historical truth about the people of the 6th day of creation.

Historical - because from the Torah. This is the name of the holy book of the Jews.

No matter how much I put off what I decided to write today ... no matter how much I thought that people would be able to calmly figure everything out on their own ..., especially since everything lies on the surface in open sources ..., however, the attack of the enemies of the human race on my Russia continues, and every day there are fewer and fewer people in it who are not infected with the virus of faith in the Jewish god Jehovah!

And to hell with her, with faith ...

You can believe in God! Why not believe in God, if there are so many inexplicable things in nature?!

The problem lies in the fact that a pack of priests, propagandizing the Jewish god Jehovah, has turned a holy human feeling - faith - into a tool for gaining power over the world. These priests seek from us not faith in God, but obedience and observance of the commandments and laws that they send down to us from above.

However, so that you understand what I mean, I want to explain everything in order.

On June 29, 2011, the main Jew of Russia - Berl Lazar - addressed the Russians with the words: "be fruitful and multiply" . According to Lazar, people should remember that the commandment "be fruitful and multiply" is the first commandment God gave us. Indeed, in the first chapter of Genesis, on the sixth day of creation, God created in His image - a man and a woman and gave them a mandate - to be fruitful and multiply.

In addition, God gives the newly created man and woman the whole earth for possession, and also transfers to them all power over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over all kinds of animals and creeping things of the earth. In addition to all this, God gave “every tree” and “every herb” to a man and a woman, after which he sent the first couple of people to fill the earth.

Below is a quote from the first chapter of Genesis:

26 And said God Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
27 And created God man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 And blessed them God and told them God: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
29 And said God: Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is in all the earth, and every tree bearing fruit of a tree yielding seed; - you [this] will be food;
30 But to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I [gave] all herbs for food. And it became so.
31 And saw God everything that He created, and behold, it is very good. And there was evening and there was morning: the sixth day...

And everything would be fine if in the second chapter of the book "Genesis" God did not suddenly Lord and did not create again person (again!).

7 And created Lord God human from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
8 And planted Lord God paradise in Eden in the east, and placed there the man whom he had created.
9 And grewLord God from the earth every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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15 And tookLord God man, and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it.
16 And commandedLord God to the man, saying, From every tree in the garden you will eat,
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil — don't eat from him for on the day you eat of it, you will die the death.
18 And he saidLord God : it is not good for a man to be alone; Let us make him a helper suitable for him.
19 Lord God He formed from the earth all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air, and brought them to man to see what he would call them, and that whatever man called every living soul, that was its name.
20 And the man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a helper like him.
21 And broughtLord God a sound sleep on a person; and when he fell asleep, he took one of his ribs, and covered the place with flesh.
22 And createdLord God out of a rib taken from a man, a wife, and brought her to the man.
23 And the man said, Behold, this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken from man.
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cling to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

"And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes and desirable, because it gives knowledge; and she took the fruit of it and ate; and she also gave it to her husband, and he ate. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.

Painting "Adam and Eve". Medieval painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.

And called Lord God to Adam and said to him, Where are you? He said: I heard your voice in paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. And he said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you not eaten from the tree from which I forbade you to eat? And sent him Lord God from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bare Cain."

So, we have before us two quotations from the 1st and 2nd chapters of the Old Testament book "Genesis", telling about the creation of people.

In the first case God created SIMULTANEOUSLY man and woman to whom Creator said: « BE FERTICATED and MULTIPLY » , and also own land, water, fish, herbs, various beasts and all trees ...

In the second case, two days later, a certain God first he created a man, and then from his rib he created a wife and a helper for him. These people - Adam and Eve - were created to live in the Garden of Eden and cultivate it. They were only allowed to eat the fruits of the trees that were directed to them. Not a word was said about whether they could eat meat. They were also forbidden from having sex! Adam and Eve only knew sex after they disobeyed Lord God and ate the apple plucked from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...

I read this interesting story Mikhail Mayorov who once read the Bible very carefully and, thanks to his good ability think logically and analyze, I noticed such a blatant "misunderstanding" in holy scripture.

"When God commanded man to "be fruitful and multiply"? Before he was placed in the Garden of Eden, or after his exile? If God told man to “be fruitful and multiply” before the man tasted the fruit from the forbidden tree, then why didn't Adam immediately have sexual intercourse with his wife? Why did Adam and Eve discover their nakedness only after they had sinned before Lord God ? Did he, driving Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, in addition to cursing their heads, also wished them to be fruitful and multiply? Indeed, from the behavior of Adam and Eve before the fall, we all understand that they had no idea what sexual reproduction is!

God in general in the first chapters of Genesis makes a lot of interesting, at first glance, inaccuracies and inconsistencies. In the first chapter, he gives to man, created on the 6th day, full power over fish, animals, reptiles, over grass and trees, allowing man to eat as he wants - fish, meat or fruits. And in the second chapter, a person created on the 8th day is allowed to eat only fruits, and even then not from all trees.

No less interesting happens in the third chapter of Genesis. Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain became a farmer and brought the fruits of his labor to God, and Abel became a livestock breeder and brought lambs to God. God He accepted the lambs, but he did not take the fruits of the earth. Because of this event, the vegetarian Cain fiercely hated the meat-eater Abel and killed him.

What happened next is incomprehensible: God suddenly became a "roof" (patron) killer("Genesis", chapter 4):

10 And said ( God): what did you do? the voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground;
11 And now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;
12 when you till the ground, it will no longer give its strength to you; you will be an exile and a wanderer on earth.
13 And Cain said Lord: my punishment is more than you can bear;
14 Behold, now You are driving me off the face of the earth, and from Your presence I will hide myself, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth; and whoever meets me will kill me.
15 And he said to him Lord: for that whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold. And the Lord made a sign to Cain, so that no one who met him would kill him..

What do we conclude?

In one case God created man "in his own image", and in the other God created it from clay. In one case God gives the whole earth into the possession of man, and in another - God puts it in the Garden of Eden to be cultivated. In one case God says to a man, "Be fruitful and multiply," and in another - God forbids even thinking about sex, which becomes possible only after the fall. In one case God allows a person to eat fish and meat, and in another - God allows him to eat only the fruits that grow in the Garden of Eden. In one case God gives a person full power over grass and trees, and in another - God forbids a person to touch the tree of knowledge.

After reading all these contradictions in the first two chapters of the Bible, a normal person who knows how to think can become an atheist forever.

However, not all so simple...

Let's pretend that God exists. Especially since so it really is. Suppose the Bible does tell the truth about the creation of the world and man. And also suppose that God had no desire to create the contradictions that we have just discovered in the Bible.

What happens in this case?

First of all, we see that the Bible describes the creation on earth not of one pair of people - the progenitors of mankind, but of two pairs of people, two men and two women, created at different times, and according to completely different principles!

On the sixth day of creation God created man and woman "in his own image" , whom he commanded to "be fruitful and multiply", and also gave them the right to own all the land and water, fish, reptiles, and animals ....

And on the eighth day, some God created the Garden of Eden, and in order for someone to look after this garden, he created "from the dust of the earth" a qualitatively different person - Adam, to whom he gave nothing, except for the obligation to work in the garden and eat fruits from permitted trees.

I.e on the sixth day of creation God created FREE PEOPLE and on the eighth day God created SLAB, which in Judaism is still "marked" by circumcision of the "foreskin", also on the eighth day of age.

Everything was allowed to a free man - to be fruitful and multiply, to eat fish and meat, to eat any fruits and to own all the land, and a slave was banned from meat and sex.

As soon as the slave Adam disobeyed his Master - Lord God, he was expelled from the garden and left to his own devices.

Now listen to me carefully! - wrote Mikhail Mayorov.

The truth is that on the sixth day God created the Aryans , a on the eighth day, a certain Lord God created the Jews , which are still being cut off on the eighth day.

Precisely the Aryans God gave the land as a possession and ordered "to be fruitful and multiply." And the Jews God led the way fall!

This fall began in the Garden of Eden, then it continued on earth in the descendants of Adam and Eve. Their first son, Cain, killed their second son, his brother, Abel. Then the descendants of Cain became - This is evidenced by the story of Jacob, named after the night "struggle with God" - Israel, and his descendants. And so on in the same vein...

Since the book of the Bible is a Jewish book, therefore, of course, nothing is said about the Aryans in it. Only a hint is given that on the sixth day one pair of people was created, and on the eighth day another pair was created - Adam and Eve. What were the names of those whom God created on the sixth day, we do not even know.

So, according to the Bible, two different human races were created on earth with a difference of two days!

One kind of people was created by God on the sixth day creations, another kind of people was created on the eighth day creations by some Lord God .

The first kind of people was created God "in his own image and likeness", the second kind of people was created Lord God"out of the dust of the earth".

This leads to at least two questions: who is God and what is its difference from God?

Mikhail Mayorov

Perhaps we would never have known the continuation of this Old Testament story, if not for the legendary Christ the Savior. When He, created by the Holy Spirit "in the image of God," came to the Jews, who were created Lord God"from the dust of the ground," he said to them these words: "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick; I have come to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mk 2:17).

For what sins Jews were supposed to repent?

Obviously, the Jews had to repent for those crimes which they have already accomplished by fulfilling these commandments Lord God(quoting "Deuteronomy of Moses"):

So who is this God who instructed the Jews "to exterminate all nations little by little!", "to spare no one!", "to kill the prophets!" ???

I found the answer to this question when I read the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 13:

38 the field is the world; good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom , a the tares are the sons of the evil one;
39 the enemy who sowed them is the devil ; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
40 Therefore, as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of this age:
41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all stumbling blocks and those who do iniquity,
42 and cast them into the fiery furnace; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth;
43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!

Here everything is clearly and clearly painted:

Sons of the Kingdom are the first-born people created God "in his own image"(on the 6th day of creation).
Sons of the evil one are people created Lord God "from the dust of the earth" (on the 8th day of creation).

The fate of the latter is to end up, as we see, in " fiery furnace "because of their endless atrocities and unwillingness to turn off the criminal, devilish path.

When will it happen?

Christ the Savior hinted at this (I quote the same chapter 13 of the Gospel of Matthew):

24 The kingdom of heaven is like a man sowing good seed in his field;
25 while the people were asleep, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away;
26 When the grass sprang up and the fruit appeared, then the tares also appeared.
27 When the servants of the householder came, they said to him, Sir! Have you not sown good seed in your field? where on it tares ?
28 And he said to them: man's enemy did it . And the servants said to him: Do you want us to go and choose them?
29 But he said, No, so that by choosing tares you did not uproot the wheat with them,
30 let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather firsttares and bind them in sheaves burn them but put the wheat into my barn.

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Probably there is no need to tell anyone who they are Jews, created Lord God on the 8th day of creation.

We all see Jews almost every government in the world. Even among the Chinese there are Jews, and even among such a small people as the Saami (Lapps), they also exist! I personally saw in Lovozero at the bottom of the Sami culture a caricature mixture of a Jew and a Sami!

What do we know about those firstborn people which, according to the Bible, God created on the 6th day of creation?

Where are they today? And who are they?

I tried to reveal this secret in my article:

The great secret of the Jews created Lord God "from the dust of the earth" on the 8th day, I tried to reveal in my other work:

I will give only a small, but the most important fragment from this publication - rabbi's explanation , which teaches Jews how to understand and comprehend the texts of the Torah and, in particular, the text of the book "Genesis".

Now the most important information for all of us, which I found in the article"Conversations about the Torah" which was published inJewish methodological manual on proper education Jewish children- the magazine "Fathers and Sons" (Issue 24, November-December 1994, KISLEV 5755, Association of Teachers of the Jewish Tradition "LAMED", p. 18):

"Rambam, one of the greatest Torah commentators, formulated rule, key for the book Genesis ("Genesis") and to study history forefathers: "The deeds of the fathers are a sign for posterity". Regarding our chapter, he wrote: “In this chapter there is another hint at the fate of future generations, because all, what happened between Jacob and Esau, will be between us and the descendants of Esau. The meeting of Jacob returning from the house of Laban, where he was fleeing the wrath of his brother Esau, is miniature copy those great ones stretching for millennia historical events,all contacts and confrontations between the children of Israel and the children of Esau, and the nations of the world ».

I hope that the meaning of what is written is clear: Jewish book Torah asks the Jews MODEL OF BEHAVIOR on a conscious and even subconscious level (remez!), and the Torah asks the Jews MODEL OF BEHAVIOR for centuries and even millennia ahead, with any of their contacts or confrontations with others peoples of the world. And if in the Torah, a significant part of which was inside the Bible, DIFFERENCE and indicated that God created person on the 6th day, and God created Adam and Eve on the 8th day, then this DIFFERENCE was made for a reason, but for the Jews to understand the deep meaning.

They are OTHER, and their creator is ANOTHER, not at all the One Who created all the other people on the 6th day. The Jews have their own personal God - Lord .

I also note that the hint (remez) of how Jacob literally bargained for food birthright from his first-born brother Esau, is given in the Torah (in the book "Genesis", in chapter 25) is also not just like that.

29 And Jacob cooked a meal; and Esau came from the field weary.
30 And Esau said to Jacob, Give me red to eat, this red, for I am weary. From this was given him a nickname: Edom.
31 But Jacob said: sell me now your birthright.
32 Esau said: behold, I am dying, what is this birthright to me?
33 Jacob said, Swear to me now. He swore to him and sold birthright his to Jacob.
34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and lentils; and he ate and drank, and got up and walked; and Esau neglected the birthright.

This hint (remez) clearly shows that the Jews, the sons of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, secondary in relation to people born by God on the 6th day of Creation, but due to their cunning, meanness, impudence and arrogance (hutspe), they will be masters on this earth until the HARVEST predicted by Christ the Savior comes.