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Firmament picture3/15/2024 What we have here is a clear separation of the water (the Hebrew for divide ( בָּדַל bâdal) is identical to dividing light from dark in verse 4). The 2nd-day account is another example of this brevity with spiritual overtones. Day 2: Firmament with Water and Water under it The Hebrew wording, as we have seen and will continue to see, is expressing both physical and spiritual concepts. In this creation story, we are being given practical facts with expressive vocabulary. This short expose in Genesis 1 is simply to set the time (after the chaos caused by the downfallen Lucifer) and the place (on a restored Earth), revealing the props on stage and how they got there. That’s somewhat simplistic because, as we’ll see, it’s quite a stage. This short expose in Genesis 1 is to set the time ( after the chaos caused by the downfallen Lucifer) and the place ( on a restored Earth), revealing the props on stage and how they got there. It might even have some text: Paris 1936. In the first scene, it zooms in on a city or a ship or through an apartment window, so you know where you are. Let me add another point I will expand on at the end of Genesis chapter 1 t his is like the time and place-setting of a movie. We can mention Occam’s Razor here: A law of parsimony, economy, or succinctness, why do we want to complicate matters? Mathematicians talk about the beauty and poetry in equations. The most complex presented in the most minimalist, clear-cut terms. The simplicity of expressing the creation. More likely read, but maybe I’ll get into video and podcasting, and you will be able to listen to the word of God as well literally. They’ll form a coherent picture of planet Earth with humanity, and how to reach peace and prosperity, I consider my role, that of The Explanation, as merely letting you hear the word of God. Maybe you’ll have a little more faith in what we cannot prove when you see the parts of the Bible puzzle assembled. You believe that assembling 30,000 strange looking car parts in a warehouse will produce as a fully working car. There are processes and things that we cannot prove scientifically, that’s where the element of faith comes in.įrom where does faith, or belief, come? Paul answers, “ So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear” (Hebrews 11:3). There is a biblical answer to Galacti’s uncertainty and reservation. Give it time, plenty of time, and take it one step at a time. Just daily chronicles as pieces of the puzzle. We won’t, suffice to say that just as you do not yet have the final picture composed of the pieces we’re putting together, similarly you’ll have to take the written word for what it says right now, or consider it a story. We could open a chapter, or even a book, about the writing and preservation of the Bible and develop a subject known as canonization. But he was not an eyewitness having lived hundreds of years after these events. In the New Testament, Jesus’ words (we will be getting to Him in more detail later on) indicate Moses, one of the most prominent Old Testament figures as the author of The Law (Luke 24:44), which includes the book of Genesis. Galacti’s observations are correct on both accounts and merit an explanation even a lengthy one, but we will keep it short. Initial type 3.Galacti is our fictitious time-traveling, investigative, roving reporter who lends his insights and voice to the development of the narrative The triangular area around the fish is pricked for pouncing. The fish in the water include an eel or conger, a large one on the left with a big mouth, two salmon-like fish in the middle and at the top two small fish with large heads.The position of God standing above the waters, facing right with his right arm raised is found on a similar creation scene on the mosaics of the Palatine Chapel, Palermo. The text on f.49 says correctly that storks eat snakes and there is an illustration of this in the fifth-century manuscript of Dioscorides (. Above the sea, a white stork holds a snake. Below, the peacock can be identified but the lighter birds are not specific. The large black bird with a long neck and beak is rather like a cormorant or shag, apart from its curled tail feathers and unwebbed feet. The black bird on the right swoops like a great skua. The birds in the top section are not easy to recognise but they are possibly sea birds. On the right are two compartments of birds, two of which extend beyond their frames. He occupies nearly the full height of the picture. He wears a blue tunic and red cloak and has no beard. His right arm is raised and he looks down on his creation. God stands in a three-quarters pose facing right.
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