Creation study guide - Book of life

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.

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.

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!"

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.

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 voids'.

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.

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