What do I mean? If God Is saying this is the beginning! Where did he get the stuff to create the earth? and were ever he got this stuff would be the original creation right! like the deep woud be water right? So this means water and earth was created before the creation story! You'll need to examine this creation story! It has more holes than a net!
2007-01-17 15:09:09 · 17 answers · asked by Messenger 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It just means it didn't exist.
2007-01-17 16:23:40 · answer #1 · answered by The Nomad Yokai 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning ....(TIME)
God ...................(ENERGY)
created ...............(FORCE)
the heavens ........(SPACE)
and the earth ......(MATTER)
And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
God's creation of the universe and all therein was done so by His Word. It says in the Bible that God spoke the world (and/or universe) into being. His creation began with God saying , "Let there be ..." In the first verse, the earth is matter. Matter was spoken into existance as was space and water. These things were created and then it was formed. The Bible says he formed the stars and the earth in the palm of His hand. Darkness was upon the deep because God had not as yet created light. So here we have the earth (matter), the heavens (space), the deep (water), and all were created but not as yet formed. That is why the Bible says the earth was without form and void (void meaning no life) and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
What is truly interesting is the first verse in the bible coincides with scientific fact as to what had to exist first in order for the universe to exist which is - time, energy, force, space and matter. Yet the big bang has no substance without a Supreme Being simply because "something" can not come from "nothing". If the Big Bang theory is true, then it was God who caused the Big Bang when he spoke the universe into exsistence.
I am an agnostic myself but thru much study I can definately see how the Big Bang theory and the Creation story can be one and the same. Since God sees a thousand years as a day and a day as a thousand years, the time of one day could have been millions of years. As for the question you have asked I have given you all this information so that you may see he got "this stuff' from simply speaking it into existence. I am not saying that you are right about the whole creation story is full of holes nor am I saying you are wrong. I am simply giving you the information I have. What you do with it is up to you ... as it should be.
2007-01-17 23:32:21 · answer #2 · answered by Average Joe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's the deal. The Creation story isn't the creation story of the UNIVERSE, it IS the creation story of EARTH as we know it. The Hebrew words for formless and void give the sense of chaotic/disorderly and empty. Take another look at the story and you might see that God is ordering the earth and filling it. check it out. It really doesn't have holes, you just haven't seen it all the way yet.
2007-01-17 23:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by Tachus Ischus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I will defer to an expert on the beginning of the Universe on this...
"If I had no other data than the early chapters of Genesis, some of the Psalms and other passages of Scripture, I would have arrived at essentially the same picture of the origin of the universe, as is indicated by the scientific data." Nobel Prize-winning physicist Arno Penzias (Big Bang Theorist)
So 3000 years before Hubble (the same one they named the telescope after) showed the red shift and that the Universe did have a beginning, (Up until then the line was that the Universe had always just existed) a Hebrew (Moses by tradition) wrote it out correctly.... hmmm.
2007-01-17 23:23:24 · answer #4 · answered by Pilgrim in the land of the lost 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All you maniacs who blast God are all the same. There's a hole here, there's a hole there. This part contradicts this part. Here's a clue, read the whole story, you anti God lunatics take everything out of context. To answer your question, the world was just a big mess, no defined landmass, lava, unstability, this is when i believe the dinosaurs were around. My church group studied this very subject for about a year. So your theory void and without form
2007-01-17 23:15:36 · answer #5 · answered by ninethirteen81 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Lord God is so powerful. He could created everything from nothing just by speaking things into existence. The only thing God used was the dust of the earth to create Adam in his own image; he was given life when the Lord breathed life into his nostrils.
2007-01-17 23:27:18 · answer #6 · answered by isbros 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are taking the creation story out of context, rather, anyone that attempts to use it as a science text is. It is about God, NOT a technical description of the beginning, but a description tailored to the NEEDS of its recipients. Any other use of it is doing a disservice to its text.
2007-01-17 23:12:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No - actually the earth being void and without form was an adaptation from the creation myth of Egypt.
2007-01-17 23:13:15 · answer #8 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Im guessing void and without form
2007-01-17 23:12:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God spoke and what He spoke ;became; what He spoke.Every thing came out of Him.It was a part of Him.
2007-01-17 23:24:36 · answer #10 · answered by flossie mae 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋