Easchatology SS 3.2

This morning we read through Genesis two.  AS has been stated the study is on eschatology, but we cannot run to the end without first knowing the beginning. This week I the youth the meaning of life. I told them why God created them, and they were less than enthused. Alex even called it boring. But we'll get to that later.

You can read the questioned below, here I am going to give the answers as I understand them.

1. We come to know that God is the creator. We know that he has done things intentionally and not without reason. The order of creation is not random. We also know that God cares about God's creation.

2. God placed humans, animals, and rivers on the earth.

3. We cannot really know why, we just believe that God did. Who can know the mind of God. (this one didn't have a real answer, its just a good thing to muse on.)

4. We don't get a valuation of creation's goodness here. We just know that it is good. (Genesis 1 tells us it is).

5. The story tells us that humans are made of dust, (One could also read dirt and humus) and God's breath.
The dust is important because it shows life to be flimsy. Without God's breath, we are simply dust. We need God to give us our form.
Some people believe that God's breath in us is a reference to a spirit or a soul. Genesis 2 is probably a good starting point to argue that a person is both flesh and soul. Yet they are intrinsically connected. At this point here is no soul without the body and vice versa.

6. In the garden

7. God put us there to till the soil. one could interpret this to mean that we were placed in the garden to be God's workers. God is the gardener who gives life, we are God's workers. (2:15)

8. This one is a bit redundant, but I just wanted to get everyone's brains going. one thing that we learn from this is that God's task is life. God is supremely concerned with creation. God is so concerned that God even made a special class of animal to assist God in the care of it. God honored that animal and allowed the humans to name the animals. God has allowed humans the honor of participating in God's work of life. We will so that there might be more life.  Thats why we exist.