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  • From: Revdpickrel AT wmconnect.com
  • To: hholmyard AT ont.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void
  • Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:54:52 EDT

In a message dated 4/13/2006 4:18:52 PM Central Daylight Time,
hholmyard AT ont.com writes:


> > HH, I have a question here, when was water created? Also, Isa 45:18,
> > God says He did not creat the earth formless and void, "a waste place"?
>
>
> HH: You raise a good question. Why, in an account of creation, would God
> start with many things already created? Why wouldn't the story just show
> us how He created all things? I believe the Genesis 1 account does that
> by saying that in the beginning He created the heavens and the earth.
> Water was one of the things created in His creation of the basic heavens
> and earth.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard

I thought 'Bara' as used in Genesis 1 means 'created from nothing'? And I
understood that light existed in vs 1, and water. Am I wrong in this
understanding.

Doug.
Rev. Doug Pickrel, Litt.D.
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, Texas




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