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*Jan 16, 2008** *
 
*Goodness *
 
Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31  
James 1:17
 
*Chaos (/tohu wabohu/)*
Isa 74:11; Jer 4:27
 
/ayin/ “non-existence”
/habel/ “nothingness”
 
Isaiah 40:17-23
Deuteronomy 32:10 midbar
 
Isaiah 45:18 is used to support the “Gap Theory” which maintains that there were two creations.
Gen 1:1 1st creation – Prolepsis (general statement then go on to state details)
                        Satan falls … wreaks havoc … things in state chaos
Gen 1:2 tohu wabohu “chaos”
 
but the cosmos is what results and is what’s important in this account.
Gap Theory is based on a misunderstanding of Isaiah 45:18
 
Isaiah 24:10 speaks of a “city of tohu”
 
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*The Deep (tehom)*
 
/Babylonian Tiamat:/
 
Þ    H.
Gunkel, 1895 /Schopfung and Chaos/
Þ    F.
Delitzsch, /Babel & Bibel/
Þ    W.J. Dumbrell, /The Search for Order/
 
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/A.
Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis/
 
/Tiamat/   feminine  proper noun
/tehom/    masculine common noun
/tamtu/     masculine common noun
 
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*Day (yom)*
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The day in the creation account is a literal 24 hour day
Þ    (Keil & Delitzche) excellent commentary … the earth’s rotation sped up as the creation process commences … principle of entropy
Þ    van Rad 1956 “P” the writer is the priestly writer
Þ    H.
Pember 1876
 
2.
Day = age ~/ epic approach
Þ    Ps 90:4
Þ    Hugh Miller 1857,  /The Testimony of the Rocks/
Þ    E.K. Getney 1950, /Modern Science and Christian Faith/
Þ    S.R. Driver 1886
 
3.
“Days of God”
Þ    There is no human analogy
Þ    Augustine (City of God XI, 6, Origen (De Prisespines IV 3)
 
4.
Pictorial Days (the notices about the days indicate the successive days on which God told Adam about what He had created – by vision or verbal).
Þ    J.H. Kutz 1857 … The Bible and Astronomy (by a vision)
Þ    P.J. Wiesman 1948 … Creation Revealed in 6 Day (verbally)
Þ    Not many people take this view because there is nothing in the passage to indicate that God was telling these things to Adam
 
5.
Literary Device (used to convey a sense of the power and sovereignty of God by portraying creation in a mere week)
Þ    Derrick Kidner in his Genesis commentary argues this way
Þ    Gordon Winham  Genesis, 1987 (perhaps best Genesis commentary around)
Þ    Both liberal and conservative theologians take this view.
Þ    There is in Egyptian wisdom literature = “house” used as framework … maybe use of days in Genesis is like this
 
Bernard Ram – Scientific Approach to Genesis,
In The Beginning (Henry Blocher)
 
nephesh “soul” ~/ “self” … once in a while used as “throat” … Ahh napistem is an example of how a word can be used in one way in one instance and another way in another instance.
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The Gap Theory:  The thinking is that God created a perfect world in Genesis 1.  Lucifer conducted the temple worship in a mineral garden of Eden until he fell.
He exalted himself in pride and was thrown down and judgment was cast upon him and his fallen angels for countless millions of years.
The earth was chaotic during that time and the geographical formations came about.
Then in 4000 B.C. God reconditioned the earth in 6 24-hour days.
This account attempts to take into consideration the age of the earth.
Þ    Lucifer conducted the temple worship (Isaiah 14)
Þ    Mineral Garden of Eden (Ezekiel 28)
Þ    don’t translate Gen 1:2 “was” as “became” … verb is /hayah/ … idiom which means to become is /Hayah (le)/ … le is not present … so can’t argue grammatically that it means become
Þ    J.E.
Kunt in The Bible and Astronomy argues this way
 
7.
How many creation accounts
Þ    Two contradictory accounts are the result of higher cricitism
Þ    Proponents
S.R. Driver Introduction to Literature of Old Testament (1913)
Þ    What are the reasons the Gen 1 and Gen 2 are different
1.    style differences P vs. JE.
Genesis 1 is a list but Genesis 2 is a narrative (difference of genre).
It’s genre that determines the syle and not the author.
2.    different order of creation
Þ    Gen 1:20-25  animals à humans
Þ    Gen 2:19        man à animals  … verb used “formed” is a past perfect form … Hebrew doesn’t have 2 different forms for perfect and past perfect … The verb translated “formed” should be translated “had formed”  Driver and others know that this is a legitimate translation.
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Connection between creation and redemption
Þ    Ps 77 … vss.
16-17 Creator … vss.
12-15 Savior.
Þ    Ps 89 … vss.
11-12 Creator … vss  9-10 Savior 
Þ    Ps 135 … vss 6-9 Creator … vss.
8-12 Savior;
Þ    Ps 136 … vss 5-9 Creator … vss.
10-24 Savior
 
Isa 44:24-28 progresses from Lord as Creator to fact that he is going to use Cyrus to bring them back from Promised Land.
John 1:1 … Gen 1:1 Makes much ado about this.
If God created everything … then nothing can take us out of his hand.
Doctrine of God as Creator is very important.
*Imago Dei*
 
Physical Image
 
The Genesis Creation Statements and their Implications
 
Gen 1:26 “adam” = human ~/ man
                  “adamah” = earth
 
“our” … not a plural of majesty … possibly a plural of council … The Trinity
 
Gen 1:27 points to Trinitarian understanding
 
“God (subject is plural) created (verb is single) human in His (Singular) image In the imaged of God He created him, Male and Female He created them.”
God created (a)
human (b)
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