UNDERSTANDING OLD COVENANT AND NEW COVENANT IN THE CONTEXT OF CREATION
Although it appears obscurely in the symbolism of the creation story, the concept of “covenant” is introduced in the book of Genesis. Since this concept is not well understood in these modern times, we strongly recommend reading Old/First Covenant and New Covenant before continuing with this series of pages.

This theme is developed  more fully in The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in following pages of this Creation page. We argue there that The Tree of Life symbolically represents True Religion which is also equated to the New Covenant and the Promised Land. We further demonstrate that Defiled Religion is symbolically represented by the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which is also equated to the Old/First Covenant. With that introduction, we will offer in the following pages what we see as legitimate spiritual interpretations of the parable of creation story.

Because it is very difficult for people to understanding any spiritual concept that disagrees with, or is not included in the package of scriptures with which they have been indoctrinated by their chosen religion, we will present our commentaries on creation verse by verse. This blindness to spiritual truth is an example of the “foreign tongue” phenomenon which makes it all but impossible (unless God intervenes) for religious people to understand New Covenant truths. It is also an example of a spiritual stronghold in which people are like prisoners who are unable to escape the power of teachings of  false religions in which they have ignorantly, but willingly, submitted to deceptive doctrines established by men.

Despite those limitations, readers will immediately notice that our interpretations do not agree with the conventional, Christian interpretation of creation as being a literal, seven day process in which the natural heavens and natural earth were created. This does not mean that we disagree with the interpretation that God created the natural heavens and natural earth. It does mean, however, that we think the natural interpretation has much less to say about God, his ways and his relationship with people than the alternative interpretation we will present here. It means that, in our opinion,  the symbolic interpretations of the creation parable are much more important to our understanding of the God of the Bible than the literal interpretation.