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NASB | Genesis 1:8 God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:8 God called the expanse [of sky] heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. |
Subject: The heavens are part of this creation |
Bible Note: In v. 1 it reads God created the heavens. In this verse I note that God called the firmament (NKJV) or expanse heaven. In v. 1 heaven is plural and in v. 8 it's singular. In v. 8 is the naming of the physical (visible) heaven. Just as God created all things in the visible world, that is, in heaven and earth, He also created all things in the invisible world, that is, in one of the other heavens. God created the heavens in the beginning. Although the focus (as is with the rest of Scripture) is on Man and his environment, the invisible world (one of the other heavens) was created in the beginning too, not before the beginning. In the Scripture God directs our attention to our own practical interests, Man and his environment. (I'll never finish re-reading the Bible at this rate!) The focus, therefore, is on the creation of Man and his environment, and not on the creation of the other heavens and not on the creation of the other heavens and the creatures that inhabit them (although it is mentioned here to inform us of its origin). But again the heavens and all they contain were also made "In the beginning." In other words, the unseen world of the other heavens are part of this creation, not a part of a supposed first creation which was destroyed. V. 9 strengthens this notion of one creation by using the plural, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered in to one place..." |
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