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Genesis 1:2.The earth — When first called into existence, was without form and void: confusion and emptiness, as the same original words are rendered, Isaiah 34:11.It was without order, beauty, or even use, in its present state, and was surrounded on all sides with thick darkness, through the gloom of which there was not one ray of light to penetrate not even so much as to render the ...
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Genesis 1:3. God said — Not by an articulate voice; for to...
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בראשית 1:2 Paleo-Hebrew OT: WLC (Font Required) והארץ היתה...
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Genesis 1:2-3. This is the second stage in the history of...
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What is described beginning with Genesis 1:3 is God's renewal of the earth and its creatures. So, Genesis 1 and 2 should be understood as literally true. This planet is indeed very old, but most of the flora and fauna we have today, as referred to in Genesis 1, was created about 6,000 years ago.
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The answer is given in the Hebrew text The fact is that God ברא (created) the השׁמים (heavens - plural) in (the) בראשׁית and so that’s when the waters were made when the heavens were made. In Biblical cosmology the heavens were made of water hence המים (waters - also plural) is incorporated in the word השׁמים (heavens) As such the waters belonged i...
The waters were created in v1 in the beginning. Because they were part of the heavens which were created in v1 in the beginning at the same time that the earth was created. There was nothing preexistent for if there were (other than God who created them) that would not have been the beginning of creation or the beginning. This therefore means all t...
Biblical cosmology does not look like the gnostic Big Bang empty vast expanding vacuum space hypothesis. If this is what you have in mind then you cannot visualize what is being said in v1. The heavens contained the waters therefore the waters could not be a separate uncreated, preexisting entity on their own. Rather when the heavens were created t...
The waters above the expanse/firmament/raquia existed after the world wide flood of Noah This implies there are waters above the heavens, and to have heavens you only need two heavens, so the waters in the third heaven are to praise God But the waters separating the earth from the third heaven will not be reproduced in the new creation. And it will...
The waters in Genesis 1:2 appears to be literal, and here is an explanation. When the Apostle Paul described our new birth in 2 Cor 4:6-7, he was using the imagery found in the creation account in Genesis. That is, the Spirit of God who indwells us provided us the new birth. Light is therefore called out of darkness, according to the Apostle Paul.
- The NET Bible notes are helpful here: tn The Hebrew term תְּהוֹם (tÿhom, “deep”) refers to the watery deep, the salty ocean – especially the pri...
- The waters in Genesis 1:2 appears to be literal, and here is an explanation. When the Apostle Paul described our new birth in 2 Cor 4:6-7 , he w...
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- I must ask this question. 'In' which day were the angels created or even mentioned? Because in Gen 2:1 'all the host' is an allusion to sentien...
The idea, here, is God says He did not create the world in vain (the Hebrew word is the same as the word for void in Genesis 1:1). ii. Based on these ideas, some have advanced what has been called the “Gap Theory.” It is the idea that there was a long and indefinite chronological gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Most gap theory advocates ...
The first Creation account (Genesis 1:1–2:4a; see box) is credited to P; the second (Genesis 2:4b–24) to J. 2. The names of the “proto-divine” figures are not written with the divine determinative, in sharp contrast to all the other gods mentioned in the composition, indicating that although they give birth to gods, they are not divine ...
In Genesis 1:1—2:3, Yahweh creates by divine word; and in Genesis 2:4-25, Yahweh creates by fashioning: God planted a garden, formed man, and formed animals. Creation by masturbation (self-copulation) finds no parallel with the Hebrew tradition.
