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Causality and the Arrow of Time Are Big Bang Problems for Cosmic Story-Telling

Cosmic story-telling is the state of modern cosmology. Here is a detailed storyline of the alleged early universe’s development from primordial energy fluctuations after the putative big bang to a mature cosmic web.

Causality connects one event to a prior event within its own reference frame. Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or subject (i.e., a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (i.e., an effect) where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is at least partly dependent on the cause. The cause of something may also be described as the reason behind the event or process. If an observer cannot identify the cause of an event that event has a causality problem.

The big bang model has a causality problem. It is called the “horizon problem”, which I explained here. Big Bang Has a Light-Travel-Time Problem! You can read that post! The short version is that there has been insufficient time in the big bang universe for the thermal equalisation of radiation so that what we observe from one side of the universe to the other is all at the same very cold temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation. That is about 2.8 K, or 2.8 degrees above absolute zero. But that is just a detail.

Of course the solution to the problem comes when you understand that the real universe is not the big bang universe. What we observe is the state that the Creator made it in. Nevertheless it presents an enormous problem for the misotheists who deny His existence.

As a result they have searched for an explanation. Their potential solutions involve faster than the current canonical speed c for light in the early universe. Does the New Much-Faster-Speed-of-Light Theory Fix the Big Bang’s Problems?

You see causality is the issue here. Something is observed that just should not be because, if it is self-consistent, according to their theory cannot happen. Insufficient time for light to propagate across the universe from one horizon to the other in the available time since the alleged big bang means that energy in the universe cannot equilibrate to the same temperature, certainly not to within about a few parts in 100,000. That is an incredible fine-tuning problem.

So, light has not had enough time since the big bang to travel between what should be causally coherent regions of the visible universe. This means separate regions of the universe are not causally connected—a light-travel-time problem.

How do they sell it. Cosmic inflation!

That idea is really a god-of-the-gaps scenario. Because we observe approximately equal thermalised microwave radiation coming from all regions in the distant universe a process must have occurred that smoothed it out in the early universe soon after the big bang.

The cosmic inflation theory holds that the universe rapidly inflated within a miniscule fraction of a second after the big bang, spreading out or diluting all the energy fluctuations in the universe making them all infinitesimally small and hence all near the same small value.

To put this into numerical terms, during the cosmic inflation era the inflation factor was of order 1026 over 10-36 seconds just after the beginning. That is a volume expansion factor of 1078. Whopping big numbers there. Now that is absolutely hyperinflation.

I have discussed this concept previously so I won’t go into it any further here, except to quote Alan Guth, from the cover of the April 2002 issue of Discover magazine.

“The universe burst into something from absolutely nothing – zero, nada. And as it got bigger, it became filled with even more stuff that came from absolutely nowhere.”

How is that possible? Ask Alan Guth. His theory of inflation helps explain everything.

My point is that when causality is the problem, there is no limit to the mount of fairy tales and cosmic story telling permitted.

Compare the above to what the Creator Jesus Christ said while He was on earth approximately 2,000 years ago. He was speaking to a group of Jewish Pharisees.

56 Your father Abraham leaped for joy that he should see My day, and he saw and was glad. 57 Then the Jews said to Him, You do not yet have fifty years, and have You seen Abraham? 8 Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came to be, I AM!

John 8:56-58 KJ3

Here is a question of causality. Many times Jesus stated that He is “I AM“, which is the English translation for His OT Hebrew name הָיָה, meaning the eternally existent One. He was never created. He predated all creation. Only an agent who pre-exists an event can cause an event.

An agent who exists now, with limited human lifespan, cannot cause a past event say 3,000 years ago. But that is what Christ was telling them. Before Abraham was even born He existed.

He existed before creation. And after creation He walked in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. It occurred after they sinned and didn’t want to face God.

8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:8 AKJV

We may identify this figure as the pre-incarnate Christ (the Logos), who appeared in a physical form (a body called a theophany) walking in the garden of Eden. That was 6,000 to 7,500 years ago, long before Jesus was born into human flesh in Bethlehem.

There is no violation of causation here. Nor are fairy tales needed to explain the origin of the universe. The Creator eternally existed before He created the universe according to the scriptures.

Causation is intrinsically connected with the “arrow” of time. The most familiar “arrow” of time is described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It describes the “one-way direction” of time. See Thermodynamics and Creation: A Scientific Perspective

All systems left to themselves with tend to a greater state of disorganisation, and cool towards the same temperature as they come into equilibrium with the environment around them. According to the statistical notion of increasing entropy, the “arrow” of time is identified with a decrease of free energy, that is energy available to do work. That loss is irreversible.

The cosmological “arrow” of time tells us that the universe cools and becomes more successively disorganised. That “arrow” of time is a big problem for the big bang origin of the universe because it required spontaneous organisation of structure from an “explosion” of matter and energy. See picture above.

From the “Dark Ages” to the “Cosmic Dawn” ever increasing entropy must be reversed for structures like galaxies to form. Magical “dark matter” is invoked to facilitate that. That dark matter is really just a placeholder for the unknown physics that is needed.

The required increase of entropy according to the Second Law must be violated. Yet the Second Law has never been observed to be violated in any macroscopic system.

As a result some researchers have suggested another law that reverses the increase of entropy.

The big big problem here for Darwinian evolution is this macroscopic irreversibility in time’s arrow.

Harold Blum’s 1951 book Time’s Arrow and Evolution discusses “the relationship between time’s arrow (the second law of thermodynamics) and organic evolution.” This influential text explores “irreversibility and direction in evolution and order, negentropy, and evolution.” Blum argues that evolution followed specific patterns predetermined by the inorganic nature of the earth and its thermodynamic processes. Wikipedia on the Arrow of Time

More story telling is required. The invention of fake science, for example negentropy, which has never been observed in nature.

Negentropy (negative entropy) is a hypothetical concept describing systems that increase in order and organization over time, opposite to entropy. It is needed to explain the increase in complexity as required by Darwin’s evolutionary theory. See also The Laws of Physics Point to the Creator

The solution is simple. Evolution never occurred. It is just fairy tales for adults.

And quantum mechanics cannot get you around the problem of causality and the arrow of time either.

Quantum evolution is governed by equations of motions that are time-symmetric (such as the Schrödinger equation in the non-relativistic approximation), and by wave function collapse, which is a time-irreversible process, and is only physically real in explicit collapse interpretations of quantum theory. … The conventional approach is to assume that quantum decoherence explains irreversibility and the second law of thermodynamics, thus claiming to derive the quantum arrow of time from the thermodynamic arrow of time.

Temporarily over short timescales entropy is reversible in quantum systems but the reality comes home when we look at the system as a whole over time. Wave functions collapse and produce real measurables which always obey the increase in entropy as described by the thermodynamic arrow of time.

The text from which I first learned about thermodynamics as an undergrad in physics stated the following:

However, we see the second law of thermodynamics as a description of the prior and continuing work of a creator, who also holds the answer to our future destiny and that of the universe.

Richard E. Sonntag and Gordon J. Van Wylen, 1982, Introduction to Thermodynamics, 2nd Ed., p.271, John Wiley & Sons.

The Second Law is a description of the work of the Creator (there is only one). It describes the arrow of time in all macroscopic systems. It describes causality. But all explanations that depart from God’s created order require causality violations. They want a solution to the observed order without the Creator.

Jesus Christ is the Creator of the universe. He pre-existed all creation without causality violation. Know Him and He will lead you into all truth (John 16:13).

5 [Jehovah] lead me in Your truth and teach me; for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day long. 6 Remember, O Jehovah, Your compassions and Your mercies; for they are from eternity.

Psalm 25:5-6 KJ3

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The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

Monyash Well Dressing 2009, In the Beginning God Created Man. Clay tablet decorated with coloured petals and stones.

After the fifth period in creation the sixth session brought forth ‘living souls‘ or ‘living things’ or ‘living beings’ which could multiply, making the earth having more of their sort. They were not in the image of God, but on the ‘sixth day‘ the Divine Creator decided to make some living being after His image.

This image and likeness of God in man is expounded, Ephesians 4:24, where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness, meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocence, power, etc. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

24 And put on the new man, which 1after God is created unto 2righteousness, and 3true holiness.

1 After the image of God.
2 The effect and end of the new creation.
3 Not fained nor counterfeit. (Annotations in the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

Man had received everything in him to be happy living for always. Though he was not immortal. The first living being, “a soul” that would be called “man”, was receiving a higher status than the previous created living beings. Man was made in the image of God, indicating that Adam had some similar elements of God and being in the likeness of the Most High Elohim he received in this way a sort of “royal authority” to govern over God’s creation.

All over the world we can find creation myths, showing that the “being” of it makes only sense when there is a reason for “being”. It is that sense of life so many people are looking for. Genesis uses a similar approach found in other ancient documents: Existence depends on function.

Jackson Wu looks at creation and John H. Walton’s view in this way

Genesis indeed explains the origins of the world but it tells a particular kind of story. It provides a “functional” (rather than a “material”) account of the world origins.

and continues with a good example

If I move beds and dressers out of a “bedroom” and replace it with a desk and file cabinets, what would we say? A “bedroom” no longer exists. I have now “created” a office or study.

Similarly, Genesis 1 explains how God created the world to be a sacred space, a Temple where He would dwell with his people. This view of Genesis helps us to see who God is, who we are, and God’s design for the world. {When Did God Make China?}

That original manly being was “to be red” (=Adam). Adam occurs approximately 500 times with the meaning of mankind. In the opening chapters of the Bereshith (the Book of the Beginnings or Genesis), with three exceptions (1:26; 2:5,20) it has the definite article indicating “man” or “the man” rather than “Adam”.
The first undisputed occurrence of the name of Adam is in the genealogy of Genesis 5:1-5.

Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel – Catacomb of the Via Latina

1 This is the 1book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the 2likeness of God made he him,
2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name 1Adam in the day that they were created.
3 Now Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a child in his own 1likeness after his image, and called his name Seth.
4 aAnd the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.
5 So all the days that Adam lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

The 1st Adam indicates to be the first living creature of “red blood” (hence red blooded or adam), flesh and bones. Of necessity that first fleshly creature out of which mankind would grow could be called the first created man or “the man” and the designation is equivalent to a proper name: Adam.

This first soul or living being, came from the earth, and by receiving the Breath of God came to live. Animated by the divine breath created in the image of God was allowed to have dominion over all other life, animate and inanimate. He is other than God, with no actual physical descent from the Supreme Being or from any inferior deity. Notice also how only by the creation of this human being is mentioned that God “breathed … the breath of life”

Genesis 2:

7 The Lord God also 1made the man 2of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his face breath of life, band the man was a living soul.

8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in 1Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meat: the 1tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 2and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil.

Genesis 1:

Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve — William Blake (1757-1827); William Blake’s illustrations of “Paradise Lost”, 1808.

27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 2:

18 Also the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I will make him an help 1meet for him.
19 So the Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and brought them unto the 1man to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.
20 The man therefore gave names unto all cattle, and to the fowl of the heaven, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam found he not an helper meet for him.
21 Therefore the Lord God caused an heavy sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in stead thereof.
22 And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, 1made he a 2woman, and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, cThis now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called 1woman, because she was taken out of the man.
24 dTherefore shall man leave 1his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not 1ashamed.

Man Made in the Image of God, as in Genesis 1:26 to 2:3, illustration from a Bible card published 1906 by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Divine Creator had out of nothing or out of the blackness created elements which became ordered and received a function. As such the Most High Elohim Jehovah is the One God Who brings order out of (primordial) chaos and as such also being the God of order. [Chaos representing “non-order,” not “disorder.”]

Man being set in God’s Garden, the Garden of Eden, got the allowance to name the other things but also got the obligation of obedience to the divine Will, in connection with the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

When you follow the storytelling of creation you shall find God speaking or bringing out words, and then matter came into being. Every time it was God’s Word that brought action and life. Each stage of creation is also approved with the words

“And God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1: 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, cf. 31),

and the inference is that the creation of man was its consummation and climax.

God wanted to have His Kingdom full of plants, animals and human beings in his likeness. He wanted to see a beautiful world where all of His creatures could live in peace with each other.

The first Adam wanted a partner and God made him one. This person taken out of man, the mannin became the first woman and was to be Adam’s partner giving him children as part of God’s family.

* Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition

Preceding article: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner

Additional reading:

Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs

The World framed by the Word of God

God’s Word Framing universe

Creation Creator and Creation

Creation of the earth out of something

From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word

The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods

The very very beginning 2 The Word and words

Genesis 1:26 God said “Let us make”

The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods

Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity

The very very beginning 2 The Word and words

Something from nothing

Means of creations

Coming to the creation of human beings in the image of God

Creation of the earth out of something

Creation of the earth and man #1 Planet for living beings in a pre-Adamic world

Creation of the earth and man #10 Formation of man #2 Mortal bodies and Tartarian habitation

Creation of the earth and man #11 Formation of man #3 Infant salvation and non-elect infant damnation

Creation of the earth and man #12 Formation of man #4 Constitution of man

Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution

Means of creations

Creator and Blogger God 1 Emptiness and mouvement

Creator and Blogger God 2 Image and likeness

Creator and Blogger God 5 Things to tell Creation purpose and warranty

Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His Prophets

We all are changed into the same image from glory to glory

Genesis – Story of creation 1 Genesis 1:1-25 Creation of things

Creation of the earth and man #2 Evil Angels and moments of creation

Genesis – Story of creation 3 Genesis 2:1-15 Story of Adam and Eve

Creation purpose and warranty

Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation

Between Alpha and Omega – The plan of creation

Necessity of a revelation of creation 2 Organisation of a system of things

Story of Jesus’ birth begins long before the New Testament

Man his beginnings or emerging, continuation, evolution and anthropology

Old Earth creationists and other conservative Christians denying any evolution

Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path

Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 1

Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 2

Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 3

Why God permits evil

An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2)—Creation and what follows

Divine Plan and an Imperfect creation

A look at the Failing man

God’s Plan, Purpose and teachings

Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan

Because men choose to go their own way

A Must Know Truth

Men as God

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Further reading of interest

A Unification of Creation and Evolution

We Are Only Complete In Him

An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2) – Creation and what follows

Evolution is God’s creation!!!!

Stop Listening to the story!!!Facts on God’s true creation!!!!!!!

The Documentary Hypothesis

The Genesis Sermon Series

Simple Wisdom for Tuesday

Cookie a day: Topic-God The Creator

Breathing In With Adam, Breathing Out to God

A Holy day…

All creation speaks of God’s goodness: Psalm 19

Did You Ever Wonder

N T Wright, Historicity of Adam

Adam: Something is Missing

Two new lessons made October 10, 2016

Were Adam and Eve Historical Figures?

What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 1)

What is the big mistake of Adam and Eve? (part 2)

Eve as a symbol for the Church

Why people suffer

Be Skeptical of the One Who Offers You Power

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Belgian Ecclesia Brussel - Leuven Oct 11, 2016

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

Thousands of years ago there was a void, but there also was the Eternal Being that ever was and always shall be, having had no birth and never having an end or not able to die. That divine Eternal Being “That is” or “I Am“, the “I Am Who Am” or the “I Am Who Is” has a Voice and that Voice spoke in the darkness and when it spoke that what it expressed came into being. In this way That Spiritual Being “The I Am that I Am” took care that things came into being. Every time This I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה saw it was alright and when it was good The Cause of Being brought an other thing into existence. Every time The Being “That Is” spoke Its Word became a reality. The incorruptible Word spoken brought into existence.

It was God’s Power (the Holy Spirit) that brought things to life. It was God His Word which was spoken, brought into reality and was there to stay for ever in truth, never telling lies. As such later in history the carnal beings created by that Most High Eternal Being received in their hands the greatest source of the greatest ideas known to man. First the Word went from one being to an other vocally, but later it became recorded on stone plates, than on papyrus and parchment roles. First those words of the Most High were notated in Hebrew, than Aramaic words and Greek words supplemented the documents written down in the name of God by set apart (holy) men. This way man got the Scriptures, and for this series on the new or 2nd Adam we shall also look into the wisdom of the theological minds who brought forth the 1599 Geneva Bible Patriot’s Edition, which will enable you to think God’s thoughts after Him because the Bible is His special revelation. Herewith is a resource that you are sure to find indispensable for the study and interpretation of creation as God would have you see it.

A 1581 edition of the Geneva Bible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Geneva Bible once changed the world. With that Bible man can hold in their hands something that is about to change the world — again. For those who find that bible we ask them to use this Bible with care. Use it faithfully with faith. Then watch God once more do above and beyond all that we can ask or imagine.

{For this series we use the revised 2010 Tolle Lege Press (United States of America) edition of the 1599 Geneva Bible Restoration Project}

To come to know why Jesus is so important for us and to come to see who he is and what purpose he served, we have to go back to the beginning of everything. We have to listen to the Word which sounded in the void.

In Genesis chapter one we are told how everything started and that first of all, and before that any creature was, God made heaven and earth of nothing.

Genesis 1

1 God created the heaven and the earth. 3 The light
and the darkness, 8 The firmament, 9 He separateth
the water from the earth. 16 He createth the sun, the moon,
and the stars. 21 He createth the fish, birds, beasts, 26 He
createth man, and giveth him rule over all creatures, 29 And
provideth nurture for man and beast.

1 In the 1beginning aGod created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was 1,2without form and void, and 3darkness was upon the 4deep, and the Spirit of God 5moved upon the 6waters.
3 Then God said, bLet there be light: And there was 1light.
4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated 1the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the Light, Day, and the darkness he called Night. 1So the evening and the morning
were the first day.

The Creation – James Tissot (1836–1902)

Next we come to hear that it is the only power of God’s Word, His speaking, that makes the earth fruitful, which else naturally is barren. In Scriptures also more than once shall it be repeated that God made all His creatures to serve to His glory and God wanting to see that all is good, but that in the world there is seed, the matter that brings forth new matter, good or bad, depending on how the seed is and where the seed lands, in what sort of soil.

9 God said again, eLet the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, 1Let the earth bud forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed, the fruitful tree, which beareth fruit according to his kind, which hath his seed in itself upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruit, which hath his seed in itself according to his kind: and God 1saw that it was good.

Too many christians do forget that the Bible also tells us clearly that there were animals and plants before man.

20 Afterward God said, Let the waters bring forth in abundance every 1creeping thing that hath 2life: and let the fowl fly upon the earth in the 3open firmament of the heaven.
21 Then God created the great whales, and everything living and moving, which the 1waters brought forth in abundance according to their kind, and every feathered fowl according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 Then God 1blessed them, saying, Bring forth fruit and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Only after all the planets, waters and earth, creeping beings it became time for an other creeping being of flesh and blood, in a system where there would be light and darkness as instruments appointed to serve to man’s use.

Every time God spoke, the “soul of life” came into the beings (Hebrew for the “living thing” verse 24).

24 Moreover God said, Let the earth bring forth the 1living thing according to his kind, cattle, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth according to his kind, and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth according to his kind, and the cattle according to his kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

It was only after God had commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures, that He said of man “Let us make”, signifying, that He the Most Highest, Who speaks with the ‘Royal We’ (Royal plural or Pluralis majestatis), God

“taketh counsel with his wisdom and virtue, purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.” (1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition)

26 Furthermore God said, h,1Let us make man in our 2image according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth and moveth on the earth.
27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them imale and female.
28 And God 1blessed them, and God said to them, jBring forth fruit, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you 1every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: kthat shall be to you for meat.
30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to everything that moveth
upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat, and it was so.
31 lAnd God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The Earthly Paradise – Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625)

Preceding introductory article: Geneva Bible, Source text for our series on the beginning of Jesus

Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

Additional reading

I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyehאהיה אשר אהיה

Hashem השם, Hebrew for “the Name”

Why think there’s a God? (1): Something from Nothing

Where did God come from?

Does He exists?

Attributes to God

El-Shaddai God Almighty Who no-one may see and live

Bible, helmet of health, salvation and sword of the spirit