Creation is not God’s first act, nor Book of Genesis is the first book
During the time of Solomon, Book of Genesis was not in existence because Ecclesiastes, written by Solomon, says universe is eternal or was never created. Book of Genesis was written very late because Writer inadvertently makes reference to “Kings in Israel” (Genesis 36:31) which means it was written either during or after Israel’s monarchy which ended in 586 BCE as promised exile for their rebellious attitude (Isaiah 48:8; 5:13) This explains why writer tends to glorify rebellion and thus dishonor God creating the impression that God made mankind in His image and they rebelled against Him, brother killed his innocent younger brother, men began snatching beautiful girls … etc.
Since Solomon says history is never-ending series of New Age and Old Age (Ecclesiastes 1:10) with the same events repeating in each Age, there is no first act by God. People who lived in the previous Age manifesting image of God come first in the New Age and live throughout the Age while others return to its low-quality second half, says Jesus who preferred to call himself as “Greater Solomon.” (Mathew 19:28-30; 12:42) He too compared “present Age” and “Age to come” with “a seed” which is symbol of never-ending series of GROWTH and DECAY, or “unleavened” first half and “leavened” second half (Mathew 12:32; 13:31, 32, 33), or first half of wheat-like good people who are overgrown by weed-like licentious people in the second half. (Mathew 13:24-30, reddit.com/r/theology/comments/1o7uwlb/all_theological_questions_answered_in_parable_of wheat and weeds/. )
This is natural to happen:
Freewill would result in some people using it to benefit all and others would misuse it to benefit self alone in disregard of others. This would finally result in earth becoming polluted and unlivable which is not an issue for God who made earth life-supportive in a hostile universe to repeat the same action any number of times as ‘it is not more surprising to do twice than once,’ especially so when His joy is in giving, an example which the altruistic imitate to their benefit.
The above revised past history cannot be doubted because God’s long-recorded predictions [such as “pollution, swelling [salos] of the seas, Global Wars” with the certainty of the final one which will “cause desolation” to this earth and “great distress” to the inhabitants] become a reality. (Details here //www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/s/5c1ly7xRbh )
Posted Jan 22, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC