john said:
I was having a conversation with a friend yesterday about Genesis 1. There is a lot of parallelism among the verses, so when there is a lack of parallelism, it makes me wonder why. When God is making the living creatures, He specifically blesses the creatures of the sea and the birds (v22) and man (v28) and commands them to be fruitful and multiply. He does not do this for the creatures of the land (24-25). Is there any particular reason why he does not bless the creatures of the earth also, or is it just one of those things that is hard to attach any particular meaning too?
John
The scriptures indicate that animals are living souls.
Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
[color:"FF0000"]life: Heb. a living soul [/color] But their life is in their blood. Leviticus 17:11,14 Deuteronomy 12:23. Unlike man, who is a spiritual being and able to live in a personal communion with God.
So it seems to me that God includes all his created creatures and blesses them saying be fruitful and multiply.
[color:"0000FF"]20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
24 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.
26 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 creepeth upon the earth.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. [/color]
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