I am greatly confused, can you help please?

Question

I pulled this from “The Jewish Bible” Tanaka, The Holy Scriptures according to the Traditional Hebrew Text.

Genesis 1:1-When God began to create heaven and earth
2-the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water

Here is my confusion… If God created the Plant we call Earth, then how can there be water on something that did not exist before it was created?

Please No Bashing,
Thank you

Peace & Love
Sam

I am still confused… From what I am reading God created Light on the First day but then on the forth day he created a greater light to dominate the day and a lesser light to dominate the night.
So if God created light on the first day why was it necessary to do it on the 4th day as well?

This is making no sense to me – Please help me to understand

Answer 1

i got you girl...sometimes things are translated so wrong, we aren't sure what is wright , and what is wrong.Things can be created out of other things.... Just adding to something becaomes your creation....the bible, Quran,Karan...along with many other transcripts , are so miss translated, we are not sure who, or what it true...just believe there is a GOD...and not to worry. God will understand....

Answer 2

This scripture isn't unlike from my Bible.
The conclusion that I came up with is that the surface of the earth was nothing but water. What was meant by "the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water" was that the dry land wasn't yet formed.

I looked in genesis and found a scripture that might help clear your confusion:
Genesis 1:9-10
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

Answer 3

"unformed and void" means that it had no distinctive features (land, mountains etc) it was just a big ball of elements...the Lord hadn't "sculpted" this "clay" yet

It's very similar to KJV...same would apply here...he just hadn't "sculpted" it yet
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen 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.

Answer 4

I do know the Holy Spirit was hovering over the waters.

These are the same words in a Christian Bible.

I take water to mean unformed mass. I looked up the meaning.

If you read verse 8, God seperates the waters.

Answer 5

in the beginning God created the heavens, and the Earth, and the earth was void and with out form.
let us break it down.
in the beginning God created the heavens,
and then God created the earth,
and the the earth became void and with out form.
God did not create the earth void and with out form, but the earth became void after He created it.
it does not give a time frame, between when He created, the heaven, or between the earth, or when the earth was void, after He created it.
since there was not a day, at that time it was a way for the writer to explain a time period.

Answer 6

Genesis 1 is not an account of the beginning of the world. The ancient Jews knew nothing about that sort of thing, not being scientists. What they did know (or think they knew) was that the world was not created when Marduk killed a dragon, used its hide for the Earth and its blood to make people.

That passage was a direct contrast between (at the time) orthodox Jewish thought and Babylonian paganism, and hence the weird imagery--it's there for contrast, not because it's significant in and of itself.

Answer 7

what poohcat said above

also what God creates is perfect in its creation. it doesn't need further modification or sculpting.

what you see in genesis 1:1 God created heaven and the earth. this was the finished product.

however, satan and his angels were cast down and destroyed it by flooding it and caused something to obscure the sun light which made everything freeze over(known as the ice age)in genesis 1:2

then, in genesis 1:3 we see that the spirit of God over came this obscuration and so the ice melted and the waters were parted again. this is also when time dropped out of eternity and God created everything "in" the earth in 6 days/6000 years after satan destroyed it

Answer 8

with reference on your concern over origins, you're left with 2 and easily 2 solutions. (a million) the gap-time-textile universe grew to become into constantly "there" or (2) God created the gap-time-textile universe to be outdoors of Himself. i'm afraid that for the reason which you refuse to look on the 2d determination you'll be constantly trapped on your confusion. you're the two left with eternal count" or an eternal author, who's transcendant and genuine. besides, the two a kind of statements above are non secular. neither is scientific, that's the entire difficulty. human beings "think of" that if one assumes a fabric commencing place of the universe, that a approach or the different this is technological understanding. that is not. technological understanding is predicated on the scientific approach which demands remark, repetition, and testability. No kind of origins satisfies this because of the fact no person may well be conscious, repeat, and attempt the commencing place experience or commencing place technique. subsequently, the entire container of Evolution / creation lies outdoors of technological understanding and in the sector of religion. not that this may well be a foul ingredient, yet human beings could understand the genuine nature of the communicate. Your question gets to the middle of the difficulty and that i placed up to you which you would be open to the 2d determination. Robert E. Walsh

Answer 9

Don't take anything in the bible literally it is couched in symbols that have been argued about for many thousands of years. I find people silly sometimes to take it literally.I myself am an occultist and so I see the bible as an symbolic work of divine wisdom when seen in the right light

Answer 10

What makes you think that God did not make the water at the same time he made the earth. That is my understanding of Gen 1:1. It is not intended to be a step by step progression...it is what God did.

In otherwords, He created the earth and here is the description of what he created.

Answer 11

The original Hebrew terms תהו tohu and בהו bohu, which we translate without form and void, are of uncertain etymology; but in this place, and wherever else they are used, they convey the idea of confusion and disorder.

Land and sea were mixed together like a soup and amorphous prior to the creation of the continents, seas, etc.