GENESIS 1:26, 27 NEEDS RESCUING - IT IS HIM! - IMAGE OF GOD! - NOT THEM!

JESUS CHRIST SAID, "MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD

ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD" -- GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 4:4

The King James Bible (KJB) correctly shows, in Genesis 1:26,27, that God made "HIM" in the "image of God", but he made "THEM," "male and female."

²⁶And 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 creepeth upon the earth.

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

NOTE: GOD IS A TRINITY. HE IS A PLURALITY.THUS, IN VERSE 26-27, GOD IS "US," AND "OUR."

THIS MUST BE DISTINGUISHED FROM THE "HIM," AND "THEM," WHICH REFER TO ADAM, AND ADAM AND EVE, RESPECTIVELY.

The New International Version (NIV) is wrong in rendering "THEM" in the "image of God."

Notice, also, the NIV uses "mankind," instead of "man," in verse 26, and 27.

This error will be seen when we compare with the EXPANDED, PASSAGE in Genesis 2.

^(NIV) 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷ So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

The English Standard Bible (version), generally follows the KJB, but wavers in a footnote.

Other versions vary.

The underlying Hebrew language is too ambiguous to make a clear determination between man, mankind, and Adam.

I'm not an expert, in the original languages, although I have quite a bit of knowledge and practical experience.

There are helps galore, on-line, like Blue Letter Bible, and Jamison, Fawcett, and Brown.

WE CAN ACHIEVE THE EXPERTISE WE NEED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY READING AND COMPARING, CHAPTER 2, AS PRINTED.

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SMASHING ROCKS TOGETHER - SEDIMENTARY ROCKS ARE PARTICLES CEMENTED TOGETHER - NOAH'S FLOOD DID THIS!

I emphasize, that we must solve, AND WE CAN SOLVE, the problem, by going to the EXPANDED EXPLANATION.

IN GENESIS, CHAPTER 2, WE SEE THE STEP BY STEP, OBVIOUS, FLOW OF THAT HISTORY.

I AM EMPHATIC THAT GOD HAS NOT LEFT US TO THE MERCY OF EXPERTS.

IN MOST CASES STUDY OF THE CONTEXT, AND COMPARING SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE DOES THE JOB.

WITH PRACTICE, THE ON-LINE-HELPS CAN BE USED SUCCESSFULLY TO HANDLE THE REMAINING PROBLEMS.

I PRAYED, ALONG TIME AGO, AND ASKED GOD HOW TO INTERPRET SCRIPTURE.

GOD'S ANSWER WAS (SEE MY PAGE), "LOOK IN THE BIBLE AND SEE HOW JESUS DID IT."

JESUS CHRIST SAID, "For this cause shall a man

leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Matthew19

HIS EXAMPLES ARE VERY CAPABLE OF TEACHING US HOW TO DO IT, AND HOW TO AVOID THE WILES OF CORRUPT, PROFESSIONALS.

There is a SUPPOSED problem with Genesis 2, in that some, supposed experts, regard it as a "RE-CREATION" account.

This goes along with the bogus explanation called the "Gap Theory," which places a huge, phony, time gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, in a desperate attempt to make the Genesis, 6000 year time frame, fit the modern science 5 billion year chronology.

It really DOES NOT FIT AT ALL.

THESE, ARE TWO DIFFERENT, CONFLICTING, WORLD VIEWS.Into this bogus time gap are tossed the dinosaurs, ape men, fossils, etc. -- into an imagined, "PRE-ADAM" JUDGEMENT OF GOD.

Then, supposedly God makes a new creation starting in Genesis 2.

THIS IS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS AND WRONG!GOD DOES NOT HAVE ANY "PLAN B."

Furthermore, it falsifies the biblical account of the Great Flood of Noah, which is a very critically important WARNING OF GOD'S FINAL JUDGEMENT DAY.

NOAH'S FLOOD IS ALSO A MAGNIFICENT PICTURE OF SALVATION IN JESUS CHRIST.

JESUS CHRIST PLAINLY CONFIRMED THE ABSOLUTE HISTORICAL TRUTH OF NOAH'S FLOOD.

Again, with regard to the Gap Theory --The King James Bible plainly sets forth, in Genesis 1 - 2:3, the six day creation week PLUS the 7th day Sabbath, rest, day.

This plain 7 division outline is obviously where much of the world gets its 7 day week.

Notice that Genesis 2:1 states that God completed EVERYTHING within his six day work week.Modern versions garble the wording somewhat, but the 7 day period is still seen.

See also, the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20 below.

NOTICE IN VERSES 8-11 GOD DIRECTLY COMPARES GOD'S SIX DAY WORK WEEK WITH THE SIX DAY WORK WEEK HE IS SPECIFYING FOR THE ISRAELITES TO WORK.

GOD IS ALWAYS TRUTHFUL -- THUS, CREATION WEEK WAS 6, REGULAR, ORDINARY, DAYS.

I SAY THIS BECAUSE ANOTHER BOGUS THEORY, THE "DAY-AGE THEORY" TRIES TO MAKE THE SIX DAYS, SIX LONG PERIODS OF TIME, INSTEAD OF ORDINARY DAYS.

SEE ALSO MY WEB PAGE ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

Note: Exodus 20:11 plainly says GOD MADE EVERYTHING IN THAT SAME 6 DAY PERIOD. EXODUS 20:

¹And God spake all these words, saying,

²I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

³Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

⁴Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

⁵Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

⁶And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

⁷Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

⁸Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

⁹Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

¹⁰But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

¹¹For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

¹²Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

¹³Thou shalt not kill.

¹⁴Thou shalt not commit adultery.

¹⁵Thou shalt not steal.

¹⁶Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

¹⁷Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

GOD'S SIX DAYS OF CREATION ARE REGULAR, ORDINARY DAYS, JUST LIKE HE TOLD THE ISRAELITES TO WORK.

THERE ARE NO GAPS IN THESE SIX DAYS.

THE KING JAMES BIBLE IS ACCURATE AND STANDS UP TO SCRUTINY.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and

is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2Tim3:16

Below are parts of Genesis 2:

Notice God makes the man first,

THEN, the Garden of Eden,

THEN, puts the Man, Adam, in the Garden,

THEN, gives him a lecture about the use of the trees of the Garden,

THEN, decides the Man should NOT be alone, --

THEN GOD PROCEEDS TO MAKE A "HELP MEET" (EVE), FOR ADAM,

NOT, REPEAT, NOT, ANOTHER, IMAGE OF GOD!!! SO THE KING JAMES IS CORRECTLY RENDERING VERSES 1:26, 27.

THE EXPANDED EXPLANATION OF CHAPTER 2 MAKES IT PERFECTLY CLEAR!

IT OVERRIDES THE CONTRARY ARGUMENTS. BETWEEN EACH OF THESE "THENs," HISTORY IS MARCHING ON, TIME IS MARCHING ON.

GOD'S CREATION OF ADAM AT THE START OF CHAPTER 2 -- WAS A DONE DEAL, IT WAS COMPLETE.

IT WAS, NOT, WAITING FOR EVE. EVE IS A SEPARATE BUT RELATED PURPOSE.

Genesis 2

¹Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

²And 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.

³And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

⁴These 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,

⁵And 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.

⁶But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

⁷And 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.

⁸And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

⁹And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

¹¹The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

¹²And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

¹⁴And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

¹⁵And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

¹⁶And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

¹⁷But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

¹⁸And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

¹⁹And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

²⁰And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

²¹And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

²²And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

²³And 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.

²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

²⁵And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

NOTE: WE RUN INTO THIS SAME, "HIM" VS "THEM," SITUATION AGAIN IN CHAPTER 5:1-2.

It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not

consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Old Test. - Lamentations 3.

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