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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Bible Question: Are angels already created before the earth is formed or created? |
Bible Answer: Angels were created before the creation of the world. Job 38:6-7 NASB "On what were its (i.e., earth's) bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang together And all the sons of God shouted for joy?" "Sons of God" are angels. The phrase is used of angels in Job 38:7; Job 1:6; Gen. 6:2; and elsewhere in Scripture . . . This interpretation harmonizes with the fact that Satan, himself an angelic being, joined them on the occasion spoken of in Job 1:6. . . . Ryrie writes "The phrase 'sons of God' is used in the O.T. almost exclusively of angels." . . . (from the Ryrie Study Bible, Moody Press) |