The Battle between God and Satan: Part 3 – The Creation of Man

Genesis chapter 1 describes God creating a race of mankind after His own image as male and female, just as He had done in creating all living creatures as both male and female.
   

Genesis 1:24-27 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  

 
Genesis 2 declares that God finished creating the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, and rested on the seventh day.
  
Genesis 2:1-2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  
  
In Genesis 2, we find the expression, “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,”
  
Genesis 2:4-7 These are the generations [H8435] of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils; and man became a living soul.
  
It is insensible to believe that God created all of Creation in 6 literal 24 hour days. Consider the expression: “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.” This verse is speaking of “several” generations [H8435] of the heavens and the earth. Just as when the Bible gives us the lineage of our ancestors, the expression “these are the generations of” speaks of many generations.
  
Genesis 10:1 Now these are the generations [H8435] of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
   
Genesis 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, [H8435] in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
  
After we reading about “the generations of the heavens and of the earth” the Lord had created, we get to Genesis 2:5 that declares:  “and there was not a man to till the ground.”
    
Genesis 2:5-7 And there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils; and man became a living soul.
   
When God was creating man in Genesis 1:26, the words “make man” were translated from the Hebrew words “Asah Adam”. The word “Asah” means to make, fashion, produce, etc.
  
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make [Asah] man [Adam] in our image, after our likeness.
  
In Genesis 2:7, a different Hebrew word is used and was translated as the word “formed”. Instead of the word make “Asah”, the Hebrew word formed “Yatsar” is used.
  
Genesis 3:7 And the LORD God formed [Yatsar] man [Adam] of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.  
 
The interesting thing about the Hebrew word “Yatsar” is that is represents not only a divine aspect of the creation of Adam, but it also represents a “predetermined”, or “pre-ordained” aspect of the creation of Adam’s body.
       
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed “Yatsar” thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
  
Zechariah  12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, which stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundation of the earth, and formed “Yatsar” the spirit of man within him.
  
Notice that on the Day 6 of creation, God had created every living creature after its kind, both male and female, God also created a race of Adam, both male and female. I, and many others, believe this original race of Adam were never given eternal souls because God had not yet “breathed the breath of life” into their nostrils. Notice that the account of Genesis 2 takes place on the eighth day of Creation, when God formed one individual person from the dust of the Earth, called Adam, and to whom God “breathed the breath of life into his nostrils; and man became a living soul.”
       
Here is where I need to discuss DNA, which is the genetic coding created by a holy Creator God for the sole use of the reproduction of all plant, animal, and human life on Earth. It was the manipulation of DNA that would also play a major role in God’s decision to destroy all flesh containing the breath of life, with the flood of Noah’s day.  
   
Genesis 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.
  
The manipulation of human DNA is a flagrant abomination to the Creator, and is highly abhorred by God. Later on in this series, I will also show how God is going to allow the kingdom of Satan to manipulate DNA for the purpose of “binding up” the unsaved, before they are cast into the lake of fire.  
        
Returning to the creation of Adam and Eve, in Genesis 2 we read about how God then “cloned” Eve from Adam by using one of his ribs, which we know would contain all the DNA needed for the cloning of another human, and presented her as his companion.
  
Genesis 18:18-24 And the Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him." Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, became its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man."
 
I, and others, believe that the soul God breathes into each baby born of a woman has had a pre-existence. This is supported by the passages below.
    
Ephesians 1:4-5 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.
  
Jeremiah 1:4-5 Then the Word of the Lord came to me, saying: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you and ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
 
In an ancient manuscript called, The Great Book of the Sons of Fire, I found this interesting passage.
  
Earth was not yet in existence; there were no winds with the sky above them; high mountains were not raised, nor was the great river in its place. All was formless, without movement, calm, silent, void and dark. No name had been named and no destinies foreshadowed. Eternal rest is intolerable, and un-manifested potential is frustration. Into the solitude of timelessness came Divine Loneliness, and from this arose the desire to create, that He might know and express Himself; and this generated the Love of God. He took thought and brought into being within Himself the Universal Womb of Creation, containing the everlasting essence of slumbering spirit. The essence was quickened by a ripple form the mind of God, and a creative thought was projected. This generated power which produced light, and this formed a substance like unto a mist of invisible dust. It divided into two forms of energy through being impregnated with The Spirit of God, and quickening the chaos of the void within the Universal Womb, becoming spun out of whirlpools of substance. From this activity, as sparks from a fire, came an infinite variety of spirit minds, each having creative powers within itself.        (extracted from The Great Book of the Sons of Fire – Chapter 1)
 
After man was created on Earth as described in chapter 1, chapter 2 gives us the following description of how God breathed an eternal soul into man. This manuscript refers to Earth in a feminine form, as in Earth as the Mother and God as the Father.
  
Earth nurtured man with cautious affection, weaning him in the recesses of her body. Then, when he was grown sufficiently to be lifted so he walked in the uprightness of God, she took him and raised him above all creatures. She led him even into the presence of God and she laid him on His Great Altar. A man imperfect, of earthly limitations, a thing unfinished, ungainly and unlearned, but proudly was He presented to Earth’s Creator, not her first-born was man; the son of Earth, the grandchild of God; man the heir of tribulation and pupil of affliction. God saw man, the offering of Earth to her Lord, unconscious on the High Altar; a sacrifice to Him and a dedication to the Spirit of Fate. Then from out of the unfathomable heights and from behind the impenetrable veil, God came down above the Altar and He breathed into man the breath of Eternal Life. Into his sleeping body, God implanted a fragment of Himself, the Seed of a Soul and the Spark of Divinity; man the mortal being became man the heir of God and the inheritor of immortality. Henceforth he would have dominion over God’s earthly estate, but he also had to unravel the Circles of Eternity, and his destiny was to be an everlasting seeking and striving.      (extracted from The Great Book of the Sons of Fire – Chapter 2)