Friday, February 8, 2008

Genesis 1:2

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

  1. When God initially created the earth it was unattractive [see Webster's 1913 Dictionary definition of "form"], desolate and dark, perhaps like some of the others uninhabited planets in our solar system.
  2. Unless it was only dark over the oceans and not over the land, it seems to suggest that water [assuming "the deep" refers to the oceans] may have entirely covered the planet.
  3. Then, something called the Spirit of God moved across the water on the surface of the planet.
  4. The Spirit of God is apparently not limited by gravity.
  5. The Spirit of God, being capitalized like a title, is apparently separate from the God who created the earth and the heaven. Otherwise, why not say "God moved upon the face of the waters"?

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