Utter conjecture. You misinterpret the fossil record.
God said water...He doesn't know the difference??? Give us a break!
I would like to see you off your break.
True...and so..?? What He is the ice man?
Look at the context for a moment. There had been no light. There was no sun. No HEAT. Add to that, the Hebrew states that the Spirit was brooding over the waters like a mother hen warming her eggs.
A little Scriptural correlation here: Jeremiah gave the recalcitrant and totally arrogant Jews a most severe warning against them for their rebelliousness against God.
What was his warning? What words did Jeremiah speak as to try to put fear in their hearts?
Jeremiah used the same Hebrew words (and setting) that are found in Genesis 1:2ff...
22 “For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”
23
I looked at the earth,
and it was formless and empty. [Same Hebrew as Genesis 1:2]
I looked to the heavens,
and
their light was gone.
24 I looked at the mountains,
and they were quaking;
all the hills shook.
25 I looked, and no man was left;
all the birds of the sky had fled.
26 I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness.
All its cities were torn down
because of the Lord
and His burning anger.
There was a total destruction that had taken place in Genesis 1:2. That is why Jeremiah slammed it over their heads with the same Hebrew words (tohu wabohu). These words really meant an upheaval - a chaotic mess, and having an eery sense of dark emptiness clinging to it. These two Hebrew words only appear together twice in the Torah. First one - Genesis 1:2. 2nd time, is Jeremiah 4:23. Those words spoken by Jeremiah were to be seen as a threat to the rebellious Jews. A threat as to show how powerful God is and is able to destroy those whom He has judged. Israel was destroyed by the Lord not long after Jeremiah's warning.
Just look at what Jeremiah was telling the Jews that what was to become the land of Israel. It was what had taken place on the earth just before we read the words in Genesis 1:2. No.. We do not find the planet being created in Genesis 1:2 as some claim. Instead, we find the destroyed earth about to be restored by the God of creation. For, the previous creation had been destroyed as Jeremiah described it. For..as we read in Genesis 1:2 that the earth had become
tohu wabohu. Found in a state of utter ruin and having an eerie sense of emptiness surrounding it.
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