Creation study guide - Book of life

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Creation study guide - Book of life - The book of life

Creation study guide - Book of life

Read: Ge 1:1,2; 2:4,5

Remember: Creation study guide - Fractal revelation

Objective: Understand the purpose of God's revelation.

The fractal revelation began with an invisible alpeh א and exploded until it contained all of the rest of the Bible. It encompasses the whole of human history. Consider it in reverse: The whole of history is contained in the Bible, which is summarized in the symbols of Ge 1, which is summarized in Ge 1:1, which is summarized in bereshith בראשית, which is summarized in the invisible aleph.

This is not a proposition without evidence. We will examine Ge 1:1 more closely.

Scope

One of the theories of creation is called the Gap Theory. The Gap Theory of creation suggests that there was one creation, then a gap of ruin between Ge 1:1 and Ge 1:2. The gap theory is discredited by the fractal expansion from Ge 1:1 to Ge 1:1-2:5. If the first verse, and the first chapter are the same story, then there was no gap.

In the details of the first verse, there are indicators that the first verse expands through the full Bible. Twice the word ath את is used; once before heavens and once before earth.

Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning <07225 בראשית> God <0430 אלהים> created <01254 ברא> <untranslated את> the heaven(s) <08064 ה-שמים> <untranslated ו-את> and the earth <0776 ה-ארץ>.

Ath את is formed with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet aleph א and the last letter of the alphabet tov ת. It is similar to the Greek "alpha and omega", meaning beginning and end.

From verse 1 alone, how many days did it take God to create all the heavens from beginning to end? How many days did it take to create all of the earth from beginning to end?

The answer may surprise you. Days had not yet been invented. He created all the heavens and all the earth from beginning to end, in no days.

This should not be a surprise since nearly everyone accepts that God exists outside of time. We have a hard time imagining what that is, so we don't try too hard.

Here are the 'witnesses':

1. Ge 2:4 says that all seven days of creation happened in one day.
2. All seven days of creation map to the whole Bible and the whole history of man. [1]
3. Ge 1:1 uses ath את to say that the heavens and earth were created from beginning to end.
4. The first day was not created until after the creation of the heavens and the earth. [a]
5. There is only one day in the heaven of heavens. Before God said "let there be light", he dwelt in darkness. In the new heaven there is only light. The Hebrew day starts in darkness and ends with the light, as a symbol of God's one day; the Day of the Lord. "This is the day the Lord hath made!" [b]

Nature of creation

Since the first verse speaks of the whole of creation, the second tells of it's condition when viewed from outside of time. It was the beginning of the one day of God.

Ge 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.

In the morning of the one day of God, the earth was tohuw תהו and bohuw בהו, translated as void, formless and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep tohuwm תהום. [q 1] [a 1]

Each word is a variation of the gate, or two-letter sub-root, hu הו; meaning woe. Tohuw is the 'revelation will produce a new life ת through woe הו. Bohuw is 'the revelation to man ב is through woe הו.

The suffixes ים and ום both make a word plural. The first ים is a generic plural, like 'streets', and the second is a particular plural as in 'those streets'. The verse tells that darkness was on the face of 'those woes'.

'Darkness' חשך also means 'to obscure, or cover'. It is a symbol of love and grace. [2] The woes were already covered in grace.

The physical

We have a view of reality which is backwards. It causes theological problems. We view the universe as being a big thing which contains God. Some say that God is 'in everything'. But God says that he is the biggest thing. [c] [d] [e] [f]

Before anything was created, there was only God. Since there was nothing larger than God, when he wanted to create, he had to create inside of himself. He created the voids within himself. It makes no sense that he would create voids in the void of space. They were inside of himself. [g]

The physical universe was not simply made from nothing. It is still nothing, it is organized voids within God. [h]

All things are in God. He is aware of all things, because all things are in him. They are not him, they are voids. They are the cause of woe in the world.

The spiritual

We also have a backwards view of God. We imagine him as an angry and capricious deity who waits to extinguish anyone he sees in sin. The opposite is true. From the beginning he knew the world would be full of woe, and through that woe, he would bring new life. The law is a schoolmaster to lead our minds and spirit to Christ. [i] Woe is also a schoolmaster, but to the flesh. Through woe we know we are separated from God by sin, and we cry out for his mercy. [j] [k] [l]

He is not waiting and anxious to exterminate us.

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

The Spirit

Observe: How many things mentioned in the first two verses were not created?

God was not created. In English, it looks like darkness, the deep, the Spirit of God, and the waters were not said to be created.

Looking closer in Hebrew; Before there was light, presumably there was darkness and the Spirit of God is God. These are un-created, having existed before creation. As seen previously, the deep is the woes that reveal God to men. They are a part of creation. Some people have a cartoon image of God; not imagining that he would condone woe. But he has said clearly that he created calamity ('evil' in King James English) [m]

The Hebrew word waters מים is contained in the word heavens שמים. The author highlights this: The Spirit of God ש moved upon the face of the waters מים. The waters are a part of the creation of the heavens.

Observe: What was heaven without creation?

The word heaven שמים without creation י is desolate שמם. This is another example of the fractal nature of the revelation of God. Within the alephא you can see the Spirit (the diagonal vav ו between the two yods י. Now it is seen in the Word heaven שמים as the Spirit ש is on the face of the waters מים. Then it is seen in the sentence: The Spirit moved upon the face of the waters. It will be seen again as the story of Jonah tells of how the Spirit negotiated the revelation of God between Holiness and Love. It is expressed again as the Bible is finished up with the Spirit indwelling man and intercepting his prayers to communicate them to God.

Questions

  1. What is the difference in Hebrew between "void" and "deep"?

References

  1. Index:_Bible
  2. Many think darkness is evil. From God's [perspective, it is his grace and long-suffering. From our perspective, if you are living in sin, and not destroyed, you are receiving his grace. You are in darkness. Come out of presuming upon his grace and be Holy.

Scripture

  1. Ge 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
  2. Ps 118:24 This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
  3. 1Ki 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
  4. 1Ki 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
  5. 2Ch 2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
  6. 2Ch 6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
  7. Ac 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
  8. Heb 11:3 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.
  9. Ga 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  10. Ex 3:7 ¶ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
  11. Ex 22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
  12. Jer 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
  13. Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

Vocabulary


Answers

  1. "Deep" is the same as "void" with an additional mem ם.