tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post8131750946397379820..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : In the Beginning God made the Heaven and the EarthAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-19386534122635922572012-03-28T11:50:26.840-07:002012-03-28T11:50:26.840-07:00The faith of Abraham's Nilotic ancestors was n...The faith of Abraham's Nilotic ancestors was not dualistic. <br /><br />The creation was a singular event driven by the synergy of the Holy Trinity which always was and is and ever shall be. <br /><br />John 1:3 says that everything that was created in the beginning was created from nothing (creation ex nihilo). In other words, God did not create from pre-existing elements or from the substance of a previous world.<br /><br />Contrary to Democritus and Anaximander, the Bible teaches that God fashioned all worlds from nothing. Hebrews 11:13 says, "By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible."<br /><br />Basil the Great argued against Anaximander's view that a world is created by the spiraling motion of the four interactive elements. He declared, "Do not then imagine, O man! that the visible world is without a beginning; and because the celestial bodies move in a circular course, and it is difficult for our senses to define the point where the circle begins, do not believe that bodies impelled by a circular movement are, from their nature, without a beginning." (The Hexaemeron, Homily I)Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-47344913946604414292008-01-10T19:38:00.000-08:002008-01-10T19:38:00.000-08:00"In the Beginning God created": the Beginning is C..."In the Beginning God created": the Beginning is Christ. (The Jews were right about this verse teaching duality ... though, I think, they themselves would agree that everything has its beginning in God ... or, more precisely, in God's creative Word).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-40800217849548311172008-01-09T12:15:00.000-08:002008-01-09T12:15:00.000-08:00So much awesome wisdom is revealed in just that ve...So much awesome wisdom is revealed in just that verse of Hebrew.<BR/><BR/>There's the mysterious omission of the definite article... it is "in beginning", something much greater than any human sense of a fixed point in time or place. (John does the same thing, in Greek, in his Gospel Prologue - "In beginning was the Word...")<BR/><BR/>Then there's the verb for create - a verb used ONLY to express creative action by God.<BR/><BR/>As that wonderful Homily suggests, "Just 'cuz we don't get it, don't mean it ain't so."TLF+https://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.com