That's right! God did not have to create anything for light to happen. He spoke and light happened.
Yes, He SPOKE light into existence, because it did not exist before.
God accurately told us how light happened and how it did not happen.
Indeed.
Yes He did.
therefore, He did not say, "and God created light" but rather, God accurately described what He did.
Right, He created light by speaking it into existence. Just like He created animals and celestial entities by speaking them into existence.
Genesis 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Yup. Just like He said:
"Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens"
NO. God did not have to create light.
He didn't have to create light, no. But He did create light at that point.
No more than you create light when you turn on a lamp, or light a candle.
When a person turns on a lamp or lights a candle, he is not creating light. He is converting energy/fuel into light energy.
God uses the word "create" in how many verses in Genesis 1?
"Created" is used 5 times in Genesis 1.
Once in 1:1.
Once in 1:21.
Three times in 1:27.
The last four times were describing what God did after He said, "Let there be..." ... the same words He used in Verse 3.
Why don't you count them?
Supra.
If God created in every act in Genesis 1, my question is why didn't God say create to describe every act He did in Genesis 1?
He did.
"Let there be light" ... And there was light.
"Let there be a firmament" ... thus God made the firmament.
"Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens" ... and it was so.
"Let the waters abound with living creatures and the skies with birds" ... so God created great sea creatures, etc.
"Let the earth bring forth living creatures" ... and it was so.
"Let Us make man in Our Image, according to Our likeness" ... So God created man...
The pattern is the same. Light is just the first in the sequence.
It does not take a Phd in Theology to look up the meaning of the word "was" in a concordance.
Who said it did?
It clearly indicates that something came to pass.
Yes.
It became without form and void.
No.
It WAS void and without form, because God had not yet formed it.
God did not create a mess
No one has said that He did.
that He had to spent six days fixing.
What, pray tell, do you think we assert He was fixing?
Does not the potter start with a lump of clay, and then take a long time to form it into something beautiful, from the turning wheel, molding it with his hands, adding more clay if needed, then putting it in the kiln to fire it?
Why couldn't God take His time starting with a lump of matter that eventually became Earth, and molding it into a paradise for the creatures He made to live in?
AMEN!
including the original act of creation in Genesis 1:1
Begging the question won't work here, Oatsy.
Genesis 1:1 is where God created the universe and all the matter in it. The rest of the chapter is Him forming that matter into something beautiful.
To replenish or to fill is what God commanded them to do. There had never been humans before, although there had been apes before, therefore God told them to fill.
God created Apes on the morning of Day 6. They are a "beast of the earth."
It is no more creation than when I turn on the lights in a room.
Everything that was necessary for light was already created in Genesis 1:1. In the beginning.
Supra.
Since the earth became without form and void, God had to repair it.
Nope.
God started with material He needed to create, and then took 6 days to mold it into a paradise.
Genesis 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.
Jeremiah 4:23
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
AMEN!
Without form and void is tou bou.
God did not create a mess.
AMEN!
Your problem is that you're starting with the assumption that God must make or create things instantly.
Once you remove that assumption, your entire position falls apart.
Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
AMEN!
The word for vain in v 18 is the Hebrew word tou.
God did not create the heaven and the earth tou,
Because you say so?
thus something happened to the heaven and the earth to make it so.
There is no requirement for this in Scripture. It's an assumption you have to make in order to make your beliefs work.
God does not do slipshod workmanship.
Indeed, He takes His time to craft something wonderful.
Genesis 1:1 is the starting point.
Deu 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
AMEN!
perfect here meaning complete,whole sound, healthful
The mutiny by Lucifer is the cause of the chaos. They were cast down.
Rev 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
He and his fallen angels were cast out of the Garden of Eden onto the earth.
"You were in Eden, the garden of God..." . . . "You were on the holy mountain of God." - Ezekiel 28, which is on its face, about the king of Tyre, but symbolically about Lucifer (see verse 14).
You, Oatmeal, and everyone who believes as you do, that there was some sort of gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, must ignore what Moses wrote, as Clete mentioned above, and you must ignore what Jesus said, that being that He created man male and female
from the beginning of the creation.
That puts you in the wrong.
