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To: csense
I'm not sure I understand why you think this follows from my statement.

I don't. I'm questioning whether the interpretion of "void and without form" as meaning "having neither form nor substance" is correct. Putting this into context, we have "God created the earth, and there was no earth there".

I'm asking if it wouldn't make more sense in context to interpret it to mean "God created the earth, and it was lifeless and featureless", and proceed with creation from there.

502 posted on 06/26/2007 6:10:28 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
I don't. I'm questioning whether the interpretion of "void and without form" as meaning "having neither form nor substance" is correct. Putting this into context, we have "God created the earth, and there was no earth there".

I'm asking if it wouldn't make more sense in context to interpret it to mean "God created the earth, and it was lifeless and featureless", and proceed with creation from there.

You're still making the fundamental mistake that the first line in Genesis is an act of creation. It's not.

511 posted on 06/26/2007 7:20:34 PM PDT by csense
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