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Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess

From: "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>
To: Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>, Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:40:53 -0400

Ian Hutchesson wrote:

> There is *no possibility* for creatio ex nihilo, unless you think that God
> created the world in hiccups. The genius who advocates that v1 itself is a
> creation act then has the boner to face that God proceeds to create what he
> is supposed to have created in v1.
>

Dear Ian,
No problem. V. 1 is the "beginning" of creation and vv. 3ff are the
continuation of
creation, which is completed in 2:1 "thus the heavens and earth were
finished." Note
the inclusio "heavens and earth."

--

Lee R. Martin
Pastor, Prospect Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee
Instructor in Hebrew and Old Testament
Church of God Theological Seminary
http://earth.vol.com/~lmartin/

Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Ian Hutchesson, 08/31/2000
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- RE: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Kerry Shirts, 09/01/2000
- Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Peter Kirk, 09/01/2000
- Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Lee R. Martin, 09/01/2000
  - Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Ian Hutchesson, 09/01/2000
- RE: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Liz Fried, 09/01/2000
- Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Lee R. Martin, 09/01/2000
  - Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Ian Hutchesson, 09/01/2000
- Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Lee R. Martin, 09/02/2000
  - Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Ian Hutchesson, 09/02/2000
- Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Lee R. Martin, 09/02/2000
  - Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Ian Hutchesson, 09/02/2000
- RE: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Liz Fried, 09/02/2000
- Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Lee R. Martin, 09/02/2000
  - RE: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Liz Fried, 09/02/2000
- Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Joe Baker, 09/06/2000
- Re: Gen 1:1. Kermess, Ian Hutchesson, 09/06/2000