In The Image of God – Part II

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Creating, Forming and Making

The words CREATE, FORM and MAKE are used in Genesis. They have different and distinct meanings.

  1. To CREATE means to “Create out of nothing”. (This is the Biblical sense of the word, rather than the English language meaning.
  2. To FORM means to modify the material that was CREATED into something different. This FORMING allows for notions of some form of genetic manipulation or “evolution”. Blind chance genetic modification via sunspots zapping chromosomes is a total load of crap. The universe has not existed long enough, even if it is Moses’ 15.3 Billion Years (Jesus’ 153 large fish) or NASA’s 13-16 Billion years, for one DNA helix to have evolved. BUT, the Bible does allow for some sort of evolutionary process, either internally driven or via external manipulation. For those who have eyes to see it, the Bible teaches “reverse evolution”, i.e. that some monkeysare descended from humans. Some of Cain’s descendants turned into monkeys because they were so animalistic and brutish. The trdition is there in our letter(s) “Q” and “q”. The tail on the letters is a monkey tail. In English we spell CAIN with a “C”. The Bible spells CAIN with the Hebrew equivalent of a “Q”.
  3. To MAKE means to complete, i.e. to complete the evolutionary or development process.

Genesis tells us that God created man, that God formed man (from the dust of the earth), and that God made man.

This means that Man’s existence has its roots in all three processes. It is interesting that verse 26 of Genesis describes God (or “Divine beings” saying “Let us MAKE man . . . .”. The next verse describes God CREATING man . . . .

The CREATING may have been on a spiritual or higher plane. It involved male and female “components”. But the finished (more physical?) product was “planned” verbally before even the creation process started.



Genesis 1:26

And God said “Let us make man . . . . .”





Genesis 1:27

Here comes the “Creation stuff” AFTER te MAKING stuff. The order seems “back to front”. Is this part of the “image etaphor”?.

And God created the Adam . . . .

(OR, if we spaced the letters out differently) “And God created YOU, Adam, . . . . .