2012年2月23日 · The creation seems to be ex-nihilo, but it could also mean that this is the section-header, this is the creation story, and the tohu-wa-vohu of the next verse was already there. On Biblical tense Hebrew has tenses like every other language.

2017年9月12日 · The CEB and DRA also translate this passage similarly indicating that god made everything from nothing with the WYC describing the creation "(out) of nought". 7 Other RSV-based translations render creation "out of things that existed." Which could either be proto-matter or from the dust of the ground as described in Genesis 2:7.

2020年8月13日 · In Genesis 1 and 2 we should assume ex nihilo (out of nothing) creation unless the text clearly indicates otherwise (e.g., Genesis 2:7, 22). We can apply this to. Darby Bible Translation Genesis 1:7 And God made [asah] the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so.

This assumes that the "ages" are "worlds" and thus "the universe" and that it was made ex nihilo (out of nothing). But this is not in Hebrew thought where what God made was a biodome and it was made from preexisting material (the light was extracted from the preexistent dark, the dry land from the preexistent ocean, etc.):

2015年9月15日 · There is absolutely no discussion in Genesis 1 of the creation of the spiritual domain often also referred to as “heaven.” Contrary to popular thinking, Genesis doesn’t describe creatio ex nihilo, although that isn’t to say it didn’t occur. The creation of the earth is described first, then the creation of the heaven, although the ...

2020年5月17日 · This was indeed the predominantly Judeo-christian view for the past 2,000 years. However biblical scholars started challenging this view when they compared the Genesis creation account with other ANE cosmogonies, what they noticed is that creation ex nihilo simply does not appear in their narratives. In the pagan philosophy it was accepted that ...

2022年3月24日 · APPENDIX - Six days of creation. While the NT never mentions six days of creation, there are plenty of OT texts that do: Gen 1 - the original record of six days of creation; Ex 20:11 - seventh day Sabbath is the memorial of creation in six days; Ex 31:15 - essentially the same as Ex 20:11; Ex 16:26 - Sabbath command repeated about manna; Ex 23: ...

2023年8月4日 · Rev 10:6 - God created all things, which by definition must have at least begun with ex-nihilo; Thus, many of these references to God's creative activity do not require, indeed actually preclude creation ex-nihilo. However, the other half of the references are definitely God creating ex-nihilo.

2021年1月5日 · According to the Kabbalists, Bara indicates creation ex nihilo, "something from nothing". Yatzar denotes formation of something from a substance that already exists, "something from something". Asah has the connotation of the completion of an action. — Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice - Aryeh Kaplan - Google Books

Genesis 1:1 KJV. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.. Is the bible indicating that the very first thing God did was to create the vacuum of space; did He create spacetime first?