Questions tagged [creation]
The creation of the world, described most prominently in Genesis 1-2; other creation traditions are scattered throughout the Hebrew Bible.
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A literal Genesis 1:1-19 seems incompatible with cosmology and astronomy. Can hermeneutics provide any insight to current scientific observations? [closed]
If God made the earth in 6 literal earth days, the stars in the first 4 days, then how do Christians use hermeneutical methods to reconcile the scientific fact that we can see light from stars that ...
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Does "the beginning" in Genesis 1:1 refer to Christ, in whom God created all things?
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Revelation 3:14
"And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True ...
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What does God Command Mean in Genesis 1:28
Genesis 1:28 (NLT) Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along ...
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Could a perfect and omnipotent God create a world in chaos? [closed]
God being perfect could not possibly create a world in chaos. Thus verse 1:2 had become null and void makes sense and would also explain why the earth is much older than 6000 yrs. Gap theory between ...
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Does Genesis 1:28 limit the command to “subdue” only to the earth, not the heavens?
Genesis 1:28 (KJV) — “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of ...
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Does Genesis account allow for the possibility of intelligent man like beings existing before Adam and Eve?
The term Pre-Adamite" refers to the concept of humans or human-like beings existing on Earth before the biblical Adam. This idea has been explored in various contexts, including attempts to ...
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Does "formless and void" in Genesis 1:2 imply that the earth was entirely covered with water before the firmament separated the waters?
Genesis 1:2 (KJV) states:
"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
Then in verses 6–...
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Did Water Exist Before Light? (Gen. 1)
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth— 2 and
the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and
a mighty wind sweeping over the waters— 3 Then ...
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What is the firmament in Genesis if the Earth is identified as the dry land that appears?
In Genesis 1, the term firmament (Hebrew: raqiaʿ) appears in verses 6–8, where God creates it to divide the waters above from the waters below. Later, in verse 10, the "dry land" that ...
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Going by Gen 1:26, how is the Triune Nature of God manifested in individual human being?
We read in Gen 1:26( KJV): And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them ...
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Does Genesis 1 suggest that God consulted a heavenly court in creation, and how does this align with Isaiah’s claim that God needed no counsel?
In Genesis 1:26, God says:
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” (ESV)
This plural language has led many interpreters to suggest the presence of a heavenly court or divine council, ...
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How do scholars explain Gen 2:5 when it comes to the mention of man before Adam's creation?
We read in Gen 2 5 ( NKJV);
This is the [a]history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field ...
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Genesis 3, Was serpent's first saying occurred during the 7th day of creation, or after, on the 1st day of created life, "8th day" from the beginning?
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Genesis 1 sets up the creation narrative; Genesis 2 unpacks some crucial details of it. Genesis 3 is opened with the first action of God's creation. Before that, only God was ...
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Does Isaiah 45:7 contradicts Isaiah 5:20 and Genesis 1:31?
(All quotes are taken from YLT, all links lead to BLB)
We find in the book of Genesis, that all God's creation was done (H6213, āśâ) good (H2896, ṭôḇ).
We also don't find that God created (H1254, bārā)...
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If the Father alone is the one true God who created all things by Himself, why is the Son and Holy Spirit also credited with creation?
In different accounts of creation, If God is three persons in one being, we would expect to find references to the ONE God AND the three persons acting in creation, which God says He performed ALONE ...
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