03 feb Exodus

God reveals himself as the souverain God of the universe. Unique to all other God. So we talked about the Pagan Gods are creating out of the chaos therefor there is nothing but chaos and disruption and creation comes out of destruction.

They bring order but they cannot bring complete order they have a beginning and an end. There is a time that they exist and a time they des. They create the world by trying to battle the chaos trying to overcome the chaos. JWHW shows himself completely unique in the genesis account by the fact that it says in the beginning there was God. He already existed He has no origin stories and he does not battle some chaos-monster, he does not battle the darkness. He does not do any of that. He just nearly speaks and things start coming into existence. So he nearly shows himself as someone who unlike the Pagan Gods always existed. And he is creating everything out of order.

And the first three things he does is:

1. He brings order to the chaos
2. He forms and fills the emptiness
3. He brings light into the darkness.

By doing this he establishes an orderly creation that he can enter into and rest in. And he calls his creation good. This word Good does not mean morality. The word GOOD means it is operating the way that it is supposed to operate in relationship to everything else, so that produces the most maximum life possible that everything can be content and satisfied. So that when you enter into this GOOD creation that works the way that it is supposed to that you can be content and satisfied and at rest because there is nothing wrong to create any kind of stress or dissatisfaction or discontentment and that is what he means.

Now, it than gains a moral context cause the idea is that if you are operating in a morally GOOD way, you do not aren’t producing dissatisfaction and discontentment in other people’s life and in your own life.

That is what the word good means no other God has ever declared the creation GOOD in any creation account even in evolution we are always trying to get to good and that might take billions and billions of years. It speaks to these.

In that sense; because God created something good, he was able to enter into it and he was really able to rest (we’ll talk about rest; the shavat / shabbat means when we get to the tenth commandment, a lot more)

It actually means that he could enjoy everything and he really could say there is nothing else that I feel like I have to do and there are no problems that I have to deal with. In that sense he created a temple inside of his creation.

He then created Adam and Eve in his own image, which means to rule and seduce. Go out and make creation look like God! They are to reflect the lightness of God, his character and they are to go out and they are to command to work until the are expanded. He builds this little garden that is his tempel and commands and expands the garden as they expand the garden across the planet. They are supposed to make everything look like God. In his image. So by doing that he is making them King and Queen over creation. At the same time they are placing them in the garden that is his tempel that he dwells in. Only humans, humans that live in temples are priests. So they are also priests. So he is giving humanity a unique spot. Because in all creation counts humans were only created to be slaves and feed the Gods and the have no value or purpose other than that. Here in the Bibel he is giving us the greatest sense of worth and value that there is. Unfortunately he then presents us with a choice. You can either get your source of wisdom your way; Just do it, have it your way, I universe, and follow your heart. Or you can get your wisdom from me. And Adam and Eve choose the alternate source. The tree of knowledge of good and evil is not bad knowledge. Knowledge of good and evil is wisdom. God wants you to have that. There is nothing wrong with wanting the wisdom. The problem was that they choose they wanted to get the wisdom from something else, other than God and therefor they declared themselves self-autonomous. They were going to be a law upon them selves and they were going to declare what was wrong or right because they did not need God to tell them that and they did not need to get it from him. Therefor they were going get it on their own.

If you really think about your life that is exactly who we are, we are constantly thinking that my way is better.