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1 | Earth before it was finished | Gen 1:2 | Lionstrong | 6520 | ||
The treatment of Gen 1:2 is an example of how sometimes we religious people get stupid. In any other book we would see a passage like Gen. 1:1 for what it is, an introductory statement to the six day creation account. Gen. 1:2 and following is the development of that theme. But with this book we forget what we learned in high school literature, and every other word becomes a "symbol" for something else. The Bible is no longer the Holy Book, it's a Holy Quarry from which anyone may dig out all kinds of fanciful ideas, as long as they call them spiritual, like the fanciful practice of numerology. Gen. 1:2 describes the earth before God finished His work five days later. The earth did not become void after it was created; that was the way God created it on the first day of creation. When God finished the work of creation, it was suitable for habitation (Isa. 45:18), but not before, that is, on the first day. Peter, of course, is not separationg Gen. 1:1 from Gen. 1:2. A fanciful notion is read into and distorts his otherwise straightforward statements about the "old days" between creation and the Flood (2 Peter 3:4-5). The earth being formed out of water is simply the third day of creation (Gen 1:9). The "time" in v. 6 is that "long ago" period starting with, and not before, the six day creation and going on to the Flood. There WAS no before! "In the beginning" (Gen 1 and John 1) is the beginning of the only creation of heaven and earth recorded in Gen. 1. It is not the beginning of some other creation for which there is no record; that is, if one is reading the Word as a real book. We are still awaiting the creation of a new heaven and earth (2 Peter 3:13, Rev. 21:1). Of this bizarre treatment of the words of Scripture one will find no example among the NT writers. One may find Paul making analogous parallels with historical events in the OT, or giving fresh application to some sayings, but one doen not see Paul or other NT writers or Christ play symbol games with the words of Scripture. |
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2 | Earth before it was finished | Gen 1:2 | Makarios | 7970 | ||
Yes, I agree. We must keep 'fanciful interpretation' away from our studies when we begin to read and interpret Scripture. | ||||||