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  • From: "Charles Rempel" <CharlesR AT mygalaxyexpress.com>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void
  • Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:59:45 -0500


> HH: I think so. Why would we understand that light existed in verse 1
> when God creates light in verse 3?

It is interesting to note in Isaiah 45:7 that God created (bara) darkness
and formed (asah) light. Thus giving grammatical support that light
pre-exixted darkness and was "formed" into that light which was good for
man.

Charles D. Rempel





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