Adam and Eve were not the two only Adamic souls on the planet. All men and women were in Adam at the point of Adam and Eve created with a spirit of God-consciousness. Their sin instantly spread to everyone.
Noah's flood was a local flood. When land gives way it creates a flood, but over time it will subside down.
By God being able to do anything does not mean He will do it, for He can't go against His righteousness and holiness.
Therefore, God remains omnipotent. By the way, why are you arguing against God when you say you believe in the god of Islam? The same argument you are using against God of the Bible is against your god too.
The forbidden fruit is of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God knows these things, but man does not, so God says don't eat of it. If it is not allowed to be eaten then man does not have free-will and becomes just a robot which could not glorify God.
God is not testing us as you say, but rather, He made us perfectly. Our fall from grace needs a salvation, not a testing.
God fully proved His existence. Notice the exponential progression in conscience to know that there could not be an eternity of the past of cause and effects. Hence, the uncreated creator God created.
The reason God made us is because it is out of His glory and He wants to walk with His sons and daughters. How beautiful and wonderful this is! We are made for Him.
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Jamal
1. If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.
2. If God is omnipotent, then God has the power to eliminate all evil.
3. If God is omniscient, then God knows that evil exists.
4. If God is omnibenevolent, then God will eliminate all evil.
5. Hence, if God exist, then there will be no evil.
This is false reasoning. If God exists then He must be omnipotent? No. Who says? Where's you reasoning? Again, God will eliminate evil, but not according to man's timing, but according to God's righteous way of doing things. Not by magic, but by spiritual reality. This response should cause you to see how shallow your reasoning is.
God Resting the 7th Day is to Show a Perfect Work
"And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created [bara] and made" (2.3). To "create" is to "call the things that are not, as though they were" (Rom. 4.17). These sea-monsters and living things not only had physical bodies but also had an animated life within them. They therefore required a direct creative act of God. Thus it is only reasonable that the Scriptures should use the word "created" rather than the word "made" in these passages. In similar manner, though man’s body was formed out of the dust of the ground, his soul and spirit could not be made out of any physical material, and hence the Bible declared that "God created man in his own image."
Chapter 2.1-3 should really be an extension of chapter 1. On the seventh day God finished His work and rested. One thing worth noticing here is that the rest mentioned is God’s rest, not man’s. The Bible declares that this is God’s sabbath. God had worked for six days, and now He rested. This rest, however, was not physical, because God is never tired: "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary" (Is. 40.28). What, then, is the meaning of His rest? It is not physical but spiritual in nature. It signifies God’s satisfaction. As He looked at what He had made and saw that all of it was very good, He was satisfied. All who study the Scriptures carefully should understand the meaning of God’s rest. He had not set up the sabbath for man to keep, for man had done no work yet and therefore had no need to rest. Only after Adam sinned did he begin working (Gen. 3.19). Before he had sinned, Adam did not need to rest on the seventh day. Therefore, today we neither keep the sabbath of the children of Israel (for such belongs to the law) nor keep the sabbath of God’s creation (for He had not given this day to man).
Another matter calls for our attention. With respect to the six preceding days it was always recorded that "there was evening and there was morning"; on this seventh day—the day of rest—there is no such record. After God had finished His work, He rested in the eternal day which is always day and never night. This rest is a type of the eternal rest (Heb. 4.3) in which all who labor with God shall rest eternally in that unending nightless day. The very thought of this should make our hearts glad.
"And he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made" (2.2). The heavens and the earth and all the hosts of them therein that were created or made were finished. Spiritually speaking, God’s work of redemption is done; so now there is nothing left but rest.
The Seventh Day’s Work Signifies the Lord Jesus in Eternity
On the seventh day, we saw no work performed by God (Gen. 2.1-3). There was neither word spoken nor work done. For the words had already been uttered and the works had all been accomplished. And thus there was neither need to speak nor to work. Nothing was now left to do except to indulge in divine satisfaction, to look back over the works of the Six Days and find it all good. The heart was satisfied because everything which needed to be done had been done. And with satisfaction now came rest. Satisfaction of the heart brought rest to the heart. The rest of the heart naturally carried with it the rest and peace of the whole being. As we have mentioned before, this day was different from the preceding six days because it had neither evening nor morning. The dark evening was forever past, and so was the morning. It now was eternal day.
The millennial kingdom is shall be past when our eternal rest is at hand. Except for rest, there is nothing else. Such is to be the state of the new heaven and the new earth and New Jerusalem. The former darkness and misery will have passed away. Even the best of the bygone days cannot be compared with this rest, even as the morning cannot be compared with the noonday. At that time, the work of the Lord Jesus is fully done: old things will have forever passed away and eternity lies ahead. "Then cometh the end, when he [Christ] shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power . . . that God may be all in all" (1 Cor. 15.24-28). Amen!
The rest on the seventh day is a type of the new heaven and the new earth in eternity upon the conclusion of the millennial kingdom. Seven dispensations since Adam will have passed. What then is left is the sabbath. Hence the sabbath cannot be a figure of the millennial kingdom, since the latter will not yet be a time of rest. Even the millennium has not yet started. In the Creation story told of in Genesis, we find that on the sabbath or seventh day God rested from all His works (2.2). Spiritually speaking, God awaits the new heaven and the new earth before He can rest forever.
In the Genesis account of the Creation, there was no more day after the seventh day. For all works had been done, and God’s heart desire had all been realized. So that God blessed this day as a day of rest. According to God’s plan of restoration, symbolically speaking there are only seven days, after which there will be no more day. The work of redemption is finished and everything in God’s eternal plan has been accomplished. There need be no more time to follow upon this perfect work of God. God simply appreciates and blesses what He has done. It is indeed true that He cannot rest before the time of the new heaven and the new earth because His work of redemption has not had its full effect. He will only rest when He sees all whom He has redeemed perfectly joined to the One Perfect Man, even Christ with all authority and blessing. This is eternity. Eternity is nothing less than resting in God’s satisfaction and approval forever.
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