Preparing a Place for Us

Genesis 2:4-6 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up -- for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground

Here we have the beginning of what some have called a "second" account of creation. However, though there are sharp differences from Genesis 1:1-2:3, these verses from 2:4 and through the beginning of chapter 3, nowhere contradict the "first" account. The idea that these are two mutually exclusive accounts of creation is the fruit of a liberal view that denies the Word of God came from God at all. It is the rejection of a truly Christian, faith-based, biblical worldview, and instead the acceptance of a humanist, critical, liberal worldview which believes the first duty of a biblical interpreter is to question the text rather than to search for meaning. What is happening here is no more complicated than God giving a more detailed account of creation that centers on the creation of human beings.

One of the things that we see here is the preparation of a place that God would prepare especially for His creation. When, in verses 5 and 6, it is described that there was "no bush of the field yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up..." the entire earth was not being described. It was instead, as the context will show, that God was describing the place He would establish as the ultimate paradise on earth for human beings to live in.

Your joyfully loquacious believer,
LEE