In the beginning God created the heavens and earth..." Genesis 1:1 The Beginning! or, at the commencement of time, according to the original translation. Without indication when the beginning was, the expression intimates that the beginning was THE beginning. CREATED--this describes Divine activity. The idea of creation is acknowledged by the best expositors to be here intended. Its employment in verses 21 and 26, though seeming against, is really in favor of a distinctively creative act; in both instances something that did not previously exist...i.e. animal life, human spirit, having been called into being. in the sense of producing what is new frequently occurs in Scripture (cf. Ps. 51:12, Jer. 31:12, Isaiah 65:18). Thus, the visible universe neither existed from eternity, not was fashioned our of preexisting materials, nor proceeded forth as an emanation from the Absolute, but was summoned into being by an express creative fiat. The NT boldly claims this as a doctrine peculiar to revelation (Hebrews 11:3). Modern science explicitly disavows it as a discovery of reason. the continuity of force admits of neither creation nor annihilation, but demands an unseen universe, out of which the visible had been produced by an intelligent agency residing in the unseen." Whether the language of the writer to the Hebrews homologates the dogma of an "unseen universe," the last result of science, as expressed in what I have written, is practically an admission of the Biblical doctrine of creation." _joinprompttext="">"In the beginning God created the heavens and earth..." Genesis 1:1
The Beginning! or, at the commencement of time, according to the original translation. Without indication when the beginning was, the expression intimates that the beginning was THE beginning.
CREATED--this describes Divine activity. The idea of creation is acknowledged by the best expositors to be here intended. Its employment in verses 21 and 26, though seeming against, is really in favor of a distinctively creative act; in both instances something that did not previously exist...i.e. animal life, human spirit, having been called into being. in the sense of producing what is new frequently occurs in Scripture (cf. Ps. 51:12, Jer. 31:12, Isaiah 65:18).
Thus, the visible universe neither existed from eternity, not was fashioned our of preexisting materials, nor proceeded forth as an emanation from the Absolute, but was summoned into being by an express creative fiat.
The NT boldly claims this as a doctrine peculiar to revelation (Hebrews 11:3). Modern science explicitly disavows it as a discovery of reason. the continuity of force admits of neither creation nor annihilation, but demands an unseen universe, out of which the visible had been produced by an intelligent agency residing in the unseen." Whether the language of the writer to the Hebrews homologates the dogma of an "unseen universe," the last result of science, as expressed in what I have written, is practically an admission of the Biblical doctrine of creation.
