THE CREATION
GENESIS 1:1
COMMENTARY
reference The Genesis Record by Henry Morris
1) In the beginning - this denotes the creation of time. Before the beginning was God. He created time and is not bound by time.
2) The word for God here is Elohim. Click here for a detailed description of His Name: https://omaswisdom.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-names-of-god-elohim.html
3) He created the tangible (liquid, solid, gas) and the intangible (time, energy). He did not just make our world with that which already was, but He spoke and all things came into being. Now, that's powerful! Do you know that your tongue is powerful, also? That is a topic for another time.
4) Heaven here is actually understood as meaning the heavens: the atmosphere, space, outer space, inner space, atmospheric space, etc. Surely if you are going to work on a project, you should allow for ample space. If you were going to create the universe, you would need enough space for everything to fit it in, right? So, here He created "space".
5) The word for earth here can be translated matter, like the components of dirt. You know how farmers dig up the earth for planting? That doesn't mean they dig up all of this planet, but a small portion of ground. So, Elohim was gathering His material to create the planets and stars i.e., space, energy, time, and earth. The fact is that the planet earth was not created on the first day, but the fourth.
6) We understand that time, space, and matter are a continuum. Not one of them have substantial meaning without the other two.
7) Since our world has a beginning, how old is it? Well, if you listen to modern scientists, you may believe that it is millions of years old. These are the same people who tell you that a baby is just a glob of cells in the womb. Calculating the date using the timeline of births and generations in the Holy Bible, scholars conclude that the planet Earth was created at some point between 3760 B.C. and 5555 B.C. The Earth cannot be older than 10,000 years and is probably closer to 6,000 years old.
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