DVBD1: In the Beginning, Part 1 Recap

Below is a recap of the first segment of DVBD1: In the Beginning of my “Dismantling the Virgin Birth Doctrine” Substack series.

Genesis 1: God and the Natural Order

  • “God” is identified as the Maker of heaven & earth and all that are in them.
  • The moving of the spirit of God is tied to the sayings of God.
  • The seed is instrumental in reproducing after like kind.
  • Given what is revealed in later texts, the reference to “us” when God speaks of making man, is likely referring to God in the company of His angels in heaven, who are sometimes referred to as “the sons of God”. (As opposed to a preincarnate human being, such as Jesus.)
  • The “And God said…” statements seen throughout Genesis 1 is the “word” John is likely referring to in John 1. Those statements were with “God” (noun) and they were “god” (adjective) in that they held the power to bring that which was spoken to be.
  • The created works which God made were deemed to be “very good”. And they were likely not lacking or insufficient in any way, requiring further adjustments by the Creator later.
  • God finished His created works and ceased, meaning He was all done with them.

Genesis 2: The LORD God formed Man and Woman

  • God formed Adam from the dust of the ground, breathed the breath of life into him and Adam became a living soul.
    • In later texts it is revealed that God forms men in the wombs of their mothers. (It does not say that God is impregnating those women. But rather that He simply shaped that which was in them.)
    • Later texts also reveal that God may sanctify and ordain the unborn, and it was understood that it was God who gives breath, life and spirit.
    • These later texts demonstrate that God is very instrumental in the shaping of & giving breath & spirit to every man. However, every other man (aside from Adam) is naturally procreated by a man & a woman, not solely created by God.
  • God formed Eve from Adam. And the text states, “a man shall cleave to his wife [woman] and they two shall be one.”
    • Men & women are designed to physically fit together to form a unit. This is the natural order for human procreation.

Genesis 3: The Fall of Man, Sin and the Seed of the Woman

  • The text never says that Adam & Eve’s DNA structures changed when they disobeyed God’s command in the Garden of Eden. In other words, they did not go from innately sinless to innately sinful. Sin is not a genetic trait. It’s a misbehavior. Therefore, Adam’s offspring would not be genetically affected by his sin action.
  • The Garden of Eden story reveals an adversarial relationship between the Serpent and the woman, and between the Serpent’s seed and the seed of the woman.
  • The woman in the Garden of Eden story is identified as the mother of all living. It is Eve (not Mary).

The following posts address most of the above points: