The "coming up" of the land animals (out of the sea) ...

_What the earth surely could not accomplish_

And God said: Let the earth bring forth (jatsa'):
living souls after their kind -
cattle, and creeping thing,
and beast of the earth, after their kind! And it was so.
Genesis 1:24,25

Concerning the land plants one might want to insist that the earth "brought
them forth" out of itself. But should the earth also have received the
ability to bring forth "living souls" out of itself, which then came out of
the soil? Definitely not! But somehow our blue planet must have succeeded in
fulfilling God's command because it says: "And it was so." But how?

We saw already in connection with the land plants that the verb used here,
jatsa' = to come out, to leave, never describes the new creation of
something. Rather it means that things which already exist come out of
somewhere.

http://www.urzeitundendzeit.de/creation_and_evolution.htm#plants

Therefore living souls must already have existed somewhere at
that time, so that the earth could cause their "coming out".
If we want to answer the question where they came from we don't need much
phantasy, because the context leaves nothing to speculation: Immediately
before the "coming out" of the land animals the text speaks about the
aquatic animals, and it uses the very same expression:

Let THE WATERS swarm with living souls ...
And God created every living soul,
with which THE WATERS swarm, after their kind ...
And God said:
The earth shall cause living souls to come forth
(out of THE WATERS) after their kind ... Genesis 1:20-24

Is it not obvious that some of these aquatic animals which are called living
souls and which have just been mentioned in detail "came out" and colonized
the land?


_An amazing parallel!_

The Bible reports another event where God gave a command which is almost
identical with that of the sixth day:

Cause to come out (jatsa') all living beings ...
flying animals and cattle (behemah) and swarming animals (remes),
which move on the earth!

Subsequently the command was fullfilled:

And all living beings (chajjah), everything which swarms (remes) and all
flying animals, everything which swarms (ramas) upon the earth after
their families came out (jatsa'). Genesis 8:17-19

Down to the details, the procedure corresponds to the sixth, the same words
are used, only this time it is Noah who gets the command. Of course he did
not create the animals himself - all of them were already present on his
boat. Noah only had to make way for them to come out (jatsa'). As we compare
the two events their similarity becomes evident:


Genesis 8:17-19 Genesis 1:24

God commands: God commands:

Noah shall bring forth (jatsa') The land shall bring forth
(jatsa')
living beings living souls

(out of the ark, into which - (out of the sea, where they
as the reader knows - as the reader knows -
he had to bring them before) had been created before)

onto the land. onto the land.


Neither Noah nor the earth had to bring animals forth out of themselves, but
they had to give an impetus for already existing living beings to leave
their previous territory.


_The land animals were not created!_

Then God prepared the land animals ... Genesis 1:25

It is no coincidence that it is not said that God created the land animals
(Hebrew bara' = to create something totally new)! "Living souls" had already
been created in the seas and did only have to come out onto the land. The
absence of a creative act in the context of the "coming out" of the land
animals is therefore one further confirmation of the fact that they
descended from aquatic animals!


_No blessing for the land animals?!_

The newly created sea animals of the fifth day receive a special blessing
from God:

And God blessed them, saying: Be fruitful and multiply!

But in the case of the land animals, God omits blessing them with fertility.
Do they therefore have a deficit? No, the reason is rather that they did not
need this blessing any more! They descended from the sea animals of the
preceding day. As a consequence, the blessing given to the sea animals
affected them equally. It was not necessary to bless them again.


In addition to all this, we here encounter for the third time the Hebrew
expression for min = kind, species, which was first used for the species of
land plants (Genesis 1:12) and then for the sea animals (Genesis 1:21). Now
the land caused some of them to come out after their kind. It is to be
expect that afterwards these prototypes of land animals split up again into
further species. At any rate the repeated use of the expression min =
offspring, descendent is a remarkable indication for the descent of land
animals from predecessors which "came out" of the sea.

All these circumstances remind us of the fact that we are dealing with a
family tree!

http://www.urzeitundendzeit.de/creation_and_evolution.htm#Revolution

Armin

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