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		<title>idols &amp; fruit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Another observation about some of the theological (as in, not biological) features of the text of Genesis 1&#8230;</p> <p>Two points:</p> The things created in days 4-6 (filling the spaces separated/formed in days 1-3) are as follows: sun, moon, stars, sea-creatures of all kinds, sky-creatures of all kinds, land-creatures and livestock, man and woman.  These same things &#8211; in the reverse <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.fruitfulfaith.net/2010/03/idols-fruit/">idols &#038; fruit</a></span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another observation about some of the <em>theological</em> (as in, not biological) features of the text of Genesis 1&#8230;<span id="more-985"></span></p>
<p>Two points:</p>
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<li>The things created in days 4-6 (filling the spaces separated/formed in days 1-3) are as follows: <strong>sun</strong>, <strong>moon</strong>, <strong>stars</strong>, <strong>sea-creatures</strong> of all kinds, <strong>sky-creatures</strong> of all kinds, <strong>land-creatures</strong> and <strong>livestock</strong>, <strong>man</strong> and <strong>woman</strong>.  These same things &#8211; in the reverse order &#8211; are listed by Moses in Deuteronomy 4 as things not to make idols out of or in the likeness/image of.  &#8220;&#8230;Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a <strong>man</strong> or a <strong>woman</strong>,  or like any <strong>animal on earth</strong> or any <strong>bird that flies in the air</strong>, or like any <strong>creature that moves along the ground</strong> or any <strong>fish in the waters</strong> below. And when you look up to the sky and see the <strong>sun</strong>, the <strong>moon</strong> and the <strong>stars</strong>—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.&#8221;  These are <em>created</em> things.  They are not to be worshiped as though they were the <em>Creator</em>.  This anti-idolatry sentiment is present in Genesis 1.  The surrounding cultures <em>did</em> make idols/gods out of each and every one of these things.</li>
<li>Curiously, all of the &#8216;filling&#8217; activity is on days 4-6 &#8211; except for the vegetation/plant-life, which is, as it were, tacked on the end of day 3.  The land is allowed to produce plants and trees that <em>bear fruit</em> according to their kind.  We see a parallel here: the &#8216;fruit-bearing&#8217; word at the end of the three days of &#8216;forming&#8217;  parallels the command to the male and female to <em>&#8216;be fruitful and multiply&#8217;</em> at the end of the three days of &#8216;filling&#8217;.  The &#8216;fruitfulness&#8217; theme continues on through Genesis, and is picked up again and again throughout the Bible (and is part of the inspiration for a really great blog!).  Here in Genesis 1, the forming and filling acts of God climax in fruitfulness, and set the stage for all subsequent fruit-bearing.  In the New Testament, believers are also formed and filled by God as a part of enacting their fruit-bearing as well.</li>
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