Comparing Genesis I And Mccabe's View Of The Bible

God is the creator of all that exists in the world. He shows a multitude of power through being able to create the world through his own expression and his own judgment. God created the world the way it is through forming the human as an immoral human being who start’s as a hollow shell that grows into something full and unique. Genesis I and II share similar purposes to express God’s reasoning behind creation, but in a unique way they contrast each other by providing different perspective’s of God. However, just like the contrast between Genesis I and II, McCabe’s view on the Bible go against the anthropomorphic depictions of man and the idea that God cannot interfere with his creation alone.

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He created man in order for man to be an image of God, man must take part in the world that God created, man must, “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it”(Gen 1:28). This open’s up the idea that as human beings our main task is to fill the earth that God created for us. Before creating man, God created the earth, sky, animals, stars, and all that we can see in the world. But, when he created man, he created man in his own unique image. We are created special and differentiating from all other creations. God created us to live as images of his own. Similar to him, we contain a consciousness that makes up our uniqueness, it makes us human. In a sense, God is the creation of everything, because he is everything. God’s presence in the world symbolizes hope for people. The human condition is made with immortality. In Genesis II God created, “The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame”(Gen 2:25) the man and women were unaffected by each others nudity. This idea of immorality contrasts Genesis I in a way that view’s God in another perspective. At the beginning of life humans face a state of childlike innocence where morality is nonexistent. From the moment we are born we are immoral human beings who do are not capable of understanding wrong from life, similar to the man and women, they could not understand the wrongness in their

To understand this idea, God expresses that in Genesis II, man needs a partner so he formed various animals and allowed the man to name each one, “The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds…, and all the wild animals…”(Gen 2:20). By giving these animals a name, man is ultimately giving each animal an identity, a characteristics only humans obtain. God provides man with these various species of animals to symbolize the variation among them. That foreshadow man because, eventually God creates man of all colors, ethnicities, and backgrounds. In McCabe’s, God Matters, he denies this idea of anthropomorphism by stating that, “For us the business of being persons is extremely closely tied up with the business of talking, of forming concepts and making judgments…”(McCabe pg.9). To be human, man must have a consciousness this directly show’s how we are in fact the image of God because, we share a stream of consciousness that no animal can obtain. By deviating away from this anthropomorphic way, McCabe is showing that non-human’s cannot contain human characteristics because, man made God unique, he made man a vision of