Moses 2

Thoughts from this chapter.

1. God created the world through Christ's help.

2. God created: From void a face and water. From face and water, light and darkness. From light and darkness, firmament. Firmamane, land (Earth). From Earth, vegetation. From Vegetation, animals - starting with water animals. From animal man (created in his image).

3. (v. 28) God gives the first commandments.

"And I, God, blessed them, and said unto them: Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

1- Be fruitful and multiply. God's first commandment to men is to pair off, husband and wife, and have families.

2- Subdue the earth. Have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air. Dominion means to rule over it, to nurture it, and to subordinate it to us. I think this law goes right in line with the the commandment that Adam receives when he is kicked out of the Garden, "bread shall thou eat from the sweat of thy brow." Life is here to work in.