"SO, to answer the question, ARE THE TREES which THE LORD GOD made Grow for FOOD, AFTER THE CREATION of the MALE HUMAN he named ADAM in Genesis Chapter 2, in fact THE SAME TREES named by GOD in Genesis Chapter 1, to have been GIVEN for FOOD To THE MALE and FEMALE Human Creation of Genesis Chapter 1?"
Well, in order to answer that question, we must see “WHEN”
“every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat”
WHEN WERE THESE IN FACT CREATED!"
Mentioned in Genesis Chapter 1 vs 29, were in fact created and made to GROW. Let us look again at some earlier verses in Genesis chapter 1, we know that MANKIND in the SEVEN DAY CREATION of GENESIS CHAPTER 1 were created on DAY 6 of that timeline…but lets look again to see if there is any earlier mention of
“every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;”
as noted in vs 29, if we look a bit earlier we see that:
Gen1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Gen1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Gen1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Hmmm…In Genesis Chapter 2, we see “The LORD GOD” created all plant life as already in existence “BEFORE” it was in the Ground, and the herbs, like the male human in chapter 2, a MATURE creation before any kind of GROWTH. WE see “The LORD GOD” plant a garden and then AFTER the creation of the Man Adam, cause the TREES for FOOD to grow!
BUT what OF THE TREES FOR FOOD NOTED BY “GOD” in Genesis chapter 1 to “Have (already) Been Given” for Meat to the Male and Female humans, these:
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind:
We see that like the LIGHT called for on Day two of creation, that in Genesis chapter one, the EARTH is given a command in Genesis 1:11, to BRING FORTH GRASS, and the Herb Yielding seed, and the FRUIT TREE ( from the earth to maturity) Yielding Fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, UPON (not in but UPON) the earth, and it (not would later, not a few days after, but) AND IT WAS SO. ” Unlike the LORD GOD in Genesis chapter 2, who created pre-existing plants “BEFORE THEY WERE IN THE EARTH”, who caused the FRUIT TREES to GROW “AFTER” the creation of the Male Human of Genesis 2 whom he named Adam; in Genesis 1, GOD, plural, Elohim, Commanded the EARTH to bring forth Fruit trees, but not just fruit trees, but Fruit trees that were already YIELDING FRUIT!…not seeds “IN THE EARTH” but MATURE FRUIT TREES…”UPON” the Earth! In Genesis Chapter 1, God Commanded the earth to do a thing, and in response the earth obeyed…
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
THIS EVENT, the “FRUIT TREE Yielding Fruit, whose seed was in itself,” as noted in vs 11, was sprung up from the Earth, to exist “UPON” the earth already, on DAY 3, by the earth in obedience to GOD, in preaparation for Mankind!
So, can the TREES for FOOD in Genesis chapter 2:9, be the same as those in the creation account of Genesis chapter 1: 11, 12 and 1:29?
No, by comparison to the creation of HUMAN life in each event, and the Chronology by which those Fruit Trees in each chapter were grown into maturity yielding food in correspondence to mankind, in one event, the Fruit Trees sprung to Maturity PRIOR to the Creation of Human life, in the other, the Fruit Trees SPRUNG AFTER!
So the Trees bear witness that the creation event in Genesis 2, is not the same as The Creation event in Genesis 1.
Now we are starting to see some powerful allusions to another truth.
The Creation account of Genesis 1, seems to be a much more Mature Creation than that of Genesis chapter 2. WE also see that in contrast there is a different order in which the Birds are created, and from a different place are formed. We see that The Fruit Trees in Chapter one, are not an afterthought, but created to Maturity “UPON” the earth prior to the Creation of Both Male and Female Humans. We also see the Humans of Genesis Chapter 1 are created AT THE SAME TIME, and in EQUALITY, sharing DOMINION, as opposed to the Male Adam of Chapter two, given SOLE DOMINION over the animal kingdom, and an Animal Kingdom in which not just ALL CATTLE, all animals, but ALL BIRDS, EVERY WINGED FOWL of the air, are created AFTER the MALE HUMAN, but BEFORE THE FEMALE HUMAN.
We see a certain curiosity upon the part of the one doing the creating of Human kind in Chapter two, the SINGULAR ENTITY of “THE LORD GOD.” And we see such curiosity, The Lord God wished to see “WHAT ADAM” Would name the animals. Hmmm, this is important! This is also in contrast to the PLURAL ELOHIM CREATORS of Genesis Chapter one, with the title “GOD” (Plural Elohim), who not only have shown more maturity in their creation, but offer guidance citing “LET US CREATE MANKIND IN OUR IMAGE”…to whom are they speaking? They must be speaking to either each other, or to another, who HAS THE POWER TO CREATE HUMAN LIFE!
Hmmm…is there another with this power?
In Genesis Chapter 1, we see a world in which all was created from an original state of being engulfed in water, very hard to believe there was not any rain there once the Sun was created on Day 4, and it’s rays upon all those waters of the deep began the evaporation process! Yet the Creation account of “THE LORD GOD” in Genesis chapter 2 we see a world in Which there had not been any rain at all yet, in which relied on DEW to go up from the ground. Hmmm.
So, who else has the power of Creation? Where else do we see “ANOTHER” Heaven, and “ANOTHER” Earth?
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