Just check it out in the Hebrew for chapter 1.Grandfather wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:09 amI’m not clear on what you are asking. Perhaps you could explain the difference between “create” and “made” to help me better understand.bibleman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:57 pmYou said: "From this point forward we see the process that God undertook to make the world. Some hold that he created, others hold that he made from the materials that were present. What is difficult to debate is that life came because of His word."Grandfather wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:58 pm Gen 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.3 And God said, “Let there be....
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
A simple statement of fact, but there is nothing here to suggest the process with which God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was without form and void.
A simple factual statement of the condition of the earth, but nothing to suggest how it arrived here.
1) Was the "without form and void" a resulting leftover of a previous world?
2) Was the "without form and void" the necessary result of God's creating desire?
From this point forward we see the process that God undertook to make the world. Some hold that he created, others hold that he made from the materials that were present. What is difficult to debate is that life came because of His word.
Just what did he CREATE "from this point forward" ???
How many times is "bara" used and how many times is "asa" used?
That will tell you what was created verses what was made.