One of my New Year's resolutions for 2011 is to read through the Bible chronologically. I plan to share some of my thoughts as I journey through the Bible in a year. So, here's Day 1, Genesis 1-3:
*It's interesting to me to look at God's action verbs all through Genesis 1 and 2: separated, gathered, made, placed, created, said, blessed, rested, sanctified, formed, planted.
*We started out as vegetarians. "Behold I have given you every plant..." (Genesis 1)
*Nothing was growing yet because God had not yet sent rain and there was no man to cultivate the ground, but a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground (Genesis 2)--If the ground was being water by the mist, why wasn't anything growing yet? B/c God wanted to wait until man was there to cultivate it, perhaps?
*The thing that stuck out to me the most: Why wasn't Eve startled by the serpent SPEAKING to her?? Every time an angel appears with a message, the first thing the angel says is "Do not fear," yet Eve did not seem to think there was anything out of the ordinary about a serpent speaking to her. Did all animals used to talk? Was the serpent different from all the other animals? He was more crafty than any beast of the field...(Genesis 3)
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