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Gen 1:2 - 7/6/2008 2:25:14 PM
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Concerto
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A. "The earth was without form, and void." I read in a study Bible that this expression indicates chaos, and that at first, God created everything in order but then something happened to bring the creation to a state of no form and void.
B. However, I have also been told that the expression refers more to the state of everything prior to the completion of God's creative work.
Any comments? I tend to side with B.
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RE: Gen 1:2 - 7/6/2008 3:26:18 PM
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A. "The earth was without form, and void." I read in a study Bible that this expression indicates chaos, and that at first, God created everything in order but then something happened to bring the creation to a state of no form and void.
B. However, I have also been told that the expression refers more to the state of everything prior to the completion of God's creative work.
Any comments? I tend to side with B.
Concerto
I believe the lack of information between verse 1 and verse 2 should stop us from formulating 'gap' theories but, there is a 'grammatical' reason to adopt option 'B'.
Some translate 1:2a “and the earth became,” arguing that v. 1 describes the original creation of the earth, while v. 2 refers to a judgment that reduced it to a chaotic condition. Verses 3ff. then describe the re-creation of the earth. However, the disjunctive clause at the beginning of v. 2 cannot be translated as if it were relating the next event in a sequence. If v. 2 were sequential to v. 1, the author would have used the vav consecutive followed by a prefixed verbal form and the subject. - NET Bible
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RE: Gen 1:2 - 7/6/2008 9:48:46 PM
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People much more knowledgeable than I state that a correct reading of the original Hebrew grammar does not allow for the so-called GAP THEORY between verses 1 and 3. Personally, I find Genesis 1:2 to be the most challenging from a conceptual standpoint of the entire creation historical account. However, this makes better sense when we realize that verse 2 is describing the state or essence of whatever God planned to do as He created the triunity of physical reality (time - in the beginning; space - the heavens; matter - the earth). Surely Moses was as limited in expressing the chaos and disorder of from which God created physical reality as we are in comprehending such a non-physical state of existence.
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RE: Gen 1:2 - 7/7/2008 10:43:13 AM
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ORIGINAL: Concerto
A. "The earth was without form, and void." I read in a study Bible that this expression indicates chaos, and that at first, God created everything in order but then something happened to bring the creation to a state of no form and void.
B. However, I have also been told that the expression refers more to the state of everything prior to the completion of God's creative work.
Any comments? I tend to side with B.
Concerto
I subscribe to scenario 'B'. Especially when you consider that chaos may have significance to the fact that God had not yet 'let there be light'. This 'light' in verse 3 is not the sun and the moon and the stars which he created on day 4 in verse 19.
What light is this that appears before the sun and the moon and the stars? It must be the glory of God Himself*. The glory that brings order to the universe, and under which eveything thrives (because as you'll notice, even the vegatation of the earth appears before the creation of the sun and moon).
*The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. (Rev. 21:23)
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