The 'creation' of man ?

...the 'garden' is where the tree of life [immortality of the spirit] is , which we also find referred to as the paradise of God , and as the third heaven...

So we see Adam being TAKEN there in scripture and being cast into the earth to physical toil ... the garden is not physical then, but simply refers to being 'in the spirit' ... temporarily in death, permanently available to those who are translated having perfected their love on earth as men....

Man is craeted not in the image men have of men, but in the image of God... but god is spirit, not a man, not flesh and bones...

The reality of created man is that our spirit.... examining our 'heart of desire' we find the urge of the spirit within us is to love and be loved...

the perfection of love then is not simply the only way back to freedom of the spirit [even to manifest as the 'angels' ,messengers serving God's purpose in this world]... but is the expression of what we really are , that of us which is of God :-

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

The 'soul' ,or life ,of the body is thus only a transient thing , one might say almost like a 'dream' by the spirit, an 'illusion' of reality of time-space to the spirit which is time-less , beyond what we see as physical reality from apparently inside the illusion ...

What then [to the spirit] is the 'creation' of a man but perhaps comparable to our creating a virtual reality and placing a hero or a 'baddy' in it and letting it run...

What then is the 6th day of creation to the timeless spirit? Word for our understanding?

How can we understand the first day when the sun has not been created to make a day , how does the earth exist without the sun?

These then are not 'days' in the normal sense we use the word , this is not creation of the earth in any way our Physics understands that the earth could be created... we know then that it is either myth [as some claim] or that we shall understand it one day in terms of what it symbolises...

God sets the night ruled by the moon [lesser luminary, 'Lucifer', Satan] as the symbol of this earth in darkness of evil because of men being unable to escape sin [God will not baptise but his few for now, for this life] ...

Again God sets the day, light, to symbolise what is good, the righteous new earth and the kingdom of god with Jesus ruling and redeemed Israel serving as a nation of priests at last[Exodus 19:6] and serving the mass redemption of the gentiles [Rev 7:9-10] who were sinners to death, perfected in llove, unsanctified, unjustified in this world, but saints in the new earth [2 Peter 3:13]

That then is but one 'day' to God one 'night' of this earth under Satan [rev 13:3-7], one 'daytime' of light in the new earth

What then do the days in Genesis represent ? [if anything?]

We know what the seventh day represents, the sabbath given to Israel as a sign , but representing final rest in God , the third heaven, the paradise of God, the garden, immortality...

Is this earth and the new earth then just the sixth 'day' ... after which is the third heaven with no earth

The other 'days' then referring to things that happened before mankind [as men of science point out the evidence ,even occurred here before mankind even existed here]

As far as I am concerned it is a work of understanding in progress, as a sinner i cannot expect baptism of the spirit in this life to know all truth [John 16:13] as the few saints of Israel receive ... maybe it will come, likely not,[ it matters not what we are as flesh for sake of God's purpose here -Romans 14:7-9]

the mistake [for me] would be to say what I believe before understanding the whole scripture , a mistake I believe most people make ...how can one really believe what one does not understand?

To say that the body is physical , using the mostly exact, but likely somewhat poetic phrase that our bodies are made from the physical, the 'dust' of the earth, seems the least hard part to understand , what we have no model of is the other aspect of our 'creation', that the body is dead without the spirit , something non-physical that moves us to act, to do, to not be dead...

mankind actually knows something of the physical world, we know that we are killing the very ecosystem on which our lives depend as far as we know in physical sense, we know that we want to love and be loved, but we do not do love... we are a paradox then, we are killing our known means to live on this planet, are some half way to succeeding in this curious plan, and we really deeply want to love, but we don't do it... whaaatttt????

We cannot explain this bizarre property of human beings within our knowledge, it is insane, contradictory, paradox, irrational; nonsensical... yet it is there, we think it is real...

clearly we are mistaken then, something outside what we know as physical reality causes this insanity in almost all men... and why are there a few exceptions?

The scripture offers the explanation [2Thess 2] in terms we can perhaps come to understand , but if we accept it then we also have to see that this 'God' outside our control uses mankind for His purpose, and only seeks our agreement that it was all for 'good' at the end, in the meantime everyone will suffer just so God can have know [that is somehow time-lessly 'know', God is not trapped in time as we may believe we are] that evil does not work too well, it destroys quickly and has no long-term 'sustainability' , it ends ...]

Is life as we know it then just God's 'thought' about what it would be like to not be 'perfect' , not be spirit, but be bound in time and space... are we just God as-it-were experiencing what He cannot do so as himself, spirit ... ?

One is forced to go beyond the 'comfort zone' of what men think they know [but it is conditional knowledge, it depends upon assumptions which are simply acts of faith, plausible, but not facts] ... when one meets the paradox of mankind, the only creature that lives all its life in denial of what it thinks it is, even of what it most desired to be, love, then one has to go beyond , or wait for the answer to come.... God also promises in scripture all truth to all men... clearly not in this life for most who already died though...

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