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mark9950 · 08-10-2003, 12:43 PM

create the heavens and the earth or did God

Invent the heavens or the earth?

Doctor X · 08-10-2003, 04:43 PM

Neither.

In the Priestly opening to Genesis there is not "creation" but a reordering--you already have the "waters of the deep." He "cuts" the heavens from the earth.

--J.D.

08-10-2003, 08:49 PM

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Originally posted by mark9950
create the heavens and the earth or did God

Yes he did. Some 6000 years ago heaven was placed opposite earth and I don't know what they called it before that time.

mark9950 · 08-10-2003, 09:48 PM

You have a point,I never thought of it that way.

The heaven and earth must have always existed and this God supposidly rearranged it.

More evidence that the authors knew not what they wrote.

Doctor X · 08-10-2003, 10:09 PM

Mark:

Most "creation" myths I am aware of involve some sort of reordering of the previous order or chaos. The idea of "something from nothing" is foreign to creation myth.

--J.D.

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mark9950 Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: midwest usa Posts: 1,203	Boy dr. x You have a point,I never thought of it that way. The heaven and earth must have always existed and this God supposidly rearranged it. More evidence that the authors knew not what they wrote.

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08-10-2003, 04:43 PM	#2
Doctor X Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: USA Posts: 3,794	Neither. In the Priestly opening to Genesis there is not "creation" but a reordering--you already have the "waters of the deep." He "cuts" the heavens from the earth. --J.D.

08-10-2003, 10:09 PM	#5
Doctor X Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: USA Posts: 3,794	Mark: Most "creation" myths I am aware of involve some sort of reordering of the previous order or chaos. The idea of "something from nothing" is foreign to creation myth. --J.D.

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