Isaiah 40:6-8 (NASB)

Isaiah 40:6-8 (NASB)

6) A voice says, “Call out.”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

7) The grass withers, the flower fades,
When the breath of the LORD blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.

8) The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Has the Genesis account of creation endured?

Gen. 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
  • Yes, we still see the starry heavens above.
  • Yes, we live on the Earth.
Gen. 1:2, "The earth was formless and void . . ."
  • Yes, there are many accounts of creation with the Creator fashioning a relatively "void" world
Gen. 1:3, "Then God said, 'Let there be light . . .'"
  • Yes, we definitely still see visible light today.
Gen. 1:4, ". . . and God separated the light from the darkness."
  • Yes, we don't see light everywhere.
  • We still "see" darkness.
Gen. 1:5, "God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and morning, one day."
  • Yes, we still have a name for lighted time (not talking about the exact word here)--"day" in English.
  • Yes, we still name the darkened time--"night" in English.
  • Yes, we still combine one lighted time and one darkened time into a single unit--"a day" in English. We talk about six days until Christmas, not six days and six nights.
Gen. 1:6, "Then God said, 'Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.'"
  • Sounds like this is talking about an empty space of air, or sky, surrounding the Earth (see Gen. 7:11), but some uncertainty, as the opening of the "floodgates", or "windows", of heaven in the account of Noah's Flood may have changed the nature of this "expanse".
  • We do have water on or in the earth separated from water above our heads (which we see fall as rain today).
Gen. 1:9, "Then God said, 'Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear . . .'"
  • Yes, we still have much dry land separated from surrounding water.
Gen. 1:10, "God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas . . ."
  • Yes, we still name the dry land--"earth", "ground", or "land" in English.
  • Yes, we still name large bodies of water visible from the Earth's surface--"seas", or "oceans" in English.

 . . . (to be continued) . . . (unless everyone is bored to death)

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