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Genesis 1 says that the earth was void and without form before God began his creation so was the earth already inhabited?
Purely as a biblical - not scientific - answer, Genesis tells us that the world was pre-existing and uncreated, not that it was already inhabited. Many scholars have examined the Hebrew text and say that Genesis really is telling us that the world was already there when God began his creation.
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What are the statement revealed truth in the story of creation?
Genesis 1:1, in the begging God created the Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was covered in darkness and without void.
What is important about the order of creation in Genesis?
The order of creation in Genesis 1:1-2:4a is important to scholars because it provides further evidence that this account is not really true. This account holds that light was created before the sun, moon and stars; that grass grew before the sun existed; and so on. We now know that light comes from the sun - without it, the Earth would be so cold that even the air would freeze, and in total darkness. And without the sun, grass could not grow.The order of creation in Genesis 1:1-2:4a is so different to that in the second creation account, beginning in Genesis 2:4b, that they must be entirely separate myths. In the first account, man (both male and female) was created at the end of creation, after creation of the animals. In the second account, man (Adam) was created before creation of the animals, while Eve was not created until afterwards.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
How much is a Sega Genesis worth without cordes?
A sega genesis is worth about 10$-25$ without the cords.
How many stories of creation are there in Genesis?
There are two creation stories in Genesis, plus fragments of a third in Job and the Book of Psalms. The original creation story of Genesis is now the second one, starting at verse 2:4b (the second sentence of verse 2:4). The early Jews are believed to have encountered an early version of what is now the first creation story, in Genesis 1:1-2:4a, during the Babylonian Exile. It was assimilated and added to Genesis, without removing the second creation story, probably because the older story was popular and it would have caused dissent to have removed it.Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that pious readers, believing that the text cannot contain contradictions, ignore the major disjunctions between the two creation stories and tend to treat the second story as the fuller, more detailed account of the creation of man (and woman), but he says we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first (and vice versa) if we mean to understand each story on its own terms.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
What setting of the creation?
Scholars say that the first creation story in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) originated in a maritime environment. The creation begins by describing what is already there (KJV): "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [wind] moved upon the face of the waters." This account is attributed to the Priestly Source, writing during the Babylonian Exile or shortly afterwards.The second creation story (Genesis 2:4b-25) also describes what is already there, but as would be expected by an author accustomed to an arid environment. There was dry earth, "for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth." We are not told the setting in which God created Adam, but God later moved Adam to the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:8) and continued the rest of his creation there.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
Example of myth in the Old Testament?
One example of myth in the Old Testament is the story of the creation of the world in the book of Genesis. This account explains the origins of the universe and humanity through a symbolic narrative involving the creation of the world in six days by God.
Who went Abraham when god called him?
He obeyed without hesitation and without questioning it (Genesis ch.12).
Did God create the universe?
If you beleive the bible, Yes. God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh. For more information read Genesis the first book in the Bible. Other religions believe different things.
Why are there two creation stories in Genesis?
There are two different creation stories:The first is Genesis 1:1-2:3The second is Genesis 2:4-25It is thought this is due to several different texts being put together to form the present Bible and TorahAnswerScholars now realise that there were three main sources, or authors, for the Book of Genesis. There are two creation stories in Genesis because two different sources, the Yahwist and the Priestly Source each wrote his own story. The Yahwist wrote the second creation story (Genesis 2:4b-20) during the ninth century BCE, based on earlier Judahite traditions. The Priestly Source wrote what is now the first creation story (Genesis 1:!-2:4a) during the sixth-century-BCE Babylonian Exile, based on traditions he found among the Babylonians. It appears the Priestly Source was prevented from removing the earlier tradition or found it too difficult, since the Yahwist creation story more or less continues all the way to Noah. Instead, he simply added his own version at the beginning of Genesis.AnswerThe Yahwist and Priestly sources are not from individual authors, most likely, but from different groups with different schools of thought in very different times (during the kingdom as opposed to exile, as noted in previous answer).Also, these two sources, as well as the Elohist, the other source for Genesis, are woven together with the Deuternomist (D) source throughout the rest of the Pentateuch (Gen -Deut), with D being primarily in, and the primary source for, our book of Deuteronomy,That being said, these sources are very, very often woven together without any real apparent concern for explaining inconsistent detailsHowever, this does not disprove the Bible. My take is that we misread some of the Bible. This part, for instance, is not history of the world spoken word - for - word by God. Rather, ancient writers did not think about history the same way moderns do, with strict concern for preciseness. Rather, they were making theological claims about who God is over and against the claims of competing pagan religions in Canaan and Babylon
When were the creation stories inserted into Genesis?
Generally, Moses in the 15th century BC is credited with 'compiling' the first five books of the Old Testament - the Torah in which Genesis is book one. There are 11 genealogies in this writing beginning with God Himself in the 1st chapter and then Adam in chapter 2, and so on. These different 'inputs' of the same account lead many to think there are 2 creation accounts, while many others (especially in more recent times) see these as different 'perspectives' of the same single Creation account.
What were the first things in creation God saw as good?
The first things described as good are, in this order: Light*The separation of continents and oceansThe creation of plants.(The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole.")See also:Is there evidence for Creation?Can you show that God exists?Seeing God's wisdom
What is the relationship of Enuma Elish tablets with the Hebrew Bible?
Scholars detect many similarities between the Babylonian creation story in the Enuma Elish tablets and the first creation story in Genesis 1:1-2:4a. They say that Babylonian creation myth must have been added to the Book of Genesis by the Priestly Source during the Babylonian Exile.In both Enuma Elish and Genesis the primordial world prior to creation was formless and empty, with just a watery abyss (Tiamat in the Enuma Elish, tehom, the "deep", a linguistic cognate of tiamat, in Genesis 1:2). The sequence of creation is identical: light, then firmament, dry land, luminaries, and man. In both, the firmament, conceived as a solid inverted bowl, is created in the midst of the waters to separate the heavens from the earth (Genesis 1:6-7, Enuma Elish 4:137-40). Day and night preceded the creation of the luminous bodies, whose function is to yield light and regulate time. In Enuma Elish, the gods consulted before creating man, while Genesis has: "Let us make man in our image..." In both accounts, the creation of man was followed by divine rest._____________A key difference between the stories is that Enuma Elish is a tale of military conquest that elevates Babylon's patron deity to supreme rulership in the council of the gods. This is a nationalistic tale that provides theological support for Babylonian international supremacy. The story in Genesis one, by contrast, is told without a single reference to bloodshed, battle, city or temple. This makes perfect sense if it was told by Jewish exiles in Babylon after their city and temple had been violently destroyed by a Babylonian army.
