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Genesis 1-8 (Translated) (view source)
Revision as of 01:24, December 24, 2011
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|God declared that this expanse would be His dwelling-place. And evening and morning came: the second day.
|God declared that this expanse would be His dwelling-place. And evening and morning came: the second day.
|The word ''heaven'' can mean either the literal sky or "where God dwells." God's first dwelling, after He had made the earth, was the earth itself, and specifically the [[Garden]] of [[Eden]].
|The word ''heaven'' can mean either the literal sky or "where God dwells." God's first dwelling, after He had made the earth, was the earth itself, and specifically the [[Garden]] of [[Eden]].
The word rendered ''heaven'' could ''also'' be a contraction of the Hebrew '''אש''' (fire) and '''מים''' (waters), hence ''fire in waters.'' Had anyone sent a probe to dive under the earth's crust after the shaping and molding that took place on Day Three, he would have seen glowing pillars in an otherwise black-as-jet environment.
Concerning the sky: the ancient Hebrews believed that the sky was in fact a solid object that separated two classes of waters. Some [[creation science|creation scientists]] (beginning with Isaac Newton Vail in 1894) took this to mean a water-vapor canopy that protected the earth before the [[Great Flood]]. Dr. [[Walt Brown]], originator of the [[Hydroplate Theory]], has shown that no such canopy could have held together for very long. Hence his reinterpretation of the unqualified Hebrew word ''raqia'' to mean the earth's crust, not the sky. (The "expanse of the skies" is the actual expanse of outer space.)
Concerning the sky: the ancient Hebrews believed that the sky was in fact a solid object that separated two classes of waters. Some [[creation science|creation scientists]] (beginning with Isaac Newton Vail in 1894) took this to mean a water-vapor canopy that protected the earth before the [[Great Flood]]. Dr. [[Walt Brown]], originator of the [[Hydroplate Theory]], has shown that no such canopy could have held together for very long. Hence his reinterpretation of the unqualified Hebrew word ''raqia'' to mean the earth's crust, not the sky. (The "expanse of the skies" is the actual expanse of outer space.)