Davar Kingdom Of God

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up--for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground (Gen 2:4-6)-- As you have learned already, there are two types of creation stories in the Bible: type 1 in Gen 1 (1:1-2:3), and type 2 in Gen 2 (2:4ff). In type 1, the earth was created from chaos with darkness and light being separated from each other, and waters being divided into waters above and waters below. In type 2, our world was created as the ground was watered and became a fruitful and productive land. And when it comes to the creation of humankind, the difference is even more significant: man was created in the image of God as a king who rules over the earth in type 1, while in type 2