![]() Those who have travelled in desert areas are familiar with the fact that it frequently is too hot in the desert to rain. There is even a phenomenon that might explain the creating and making of the sun and its light. The age of our solar system seems to be sequentially as the Bible describes it. First of all, we have good evidence that the universe had an explosion or expansion at its beginning that imparted an expansion to it that we see today. Is there any evidence to support the above description? The answer is a strong yes. This is strongly suggestive of our modern understanding of hydrosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere. Verses 6-7 indicate that a change took place in the waters and indicates that three zones were produced - waters above the earth, water in the earth, and waters below. If we take the account literally and do not compromise the use of these words, we do not have to invent a light for verse 3. Those who argue that bara and asah mean the same thing have to invent a light for verse 3 because they claim the sun and moon came into being in verses 14-19. ![]() The objects were created in verse 1, the light reached the earth from these objects in verse 3, but you could not establish “signs, seasons, days and years” until verses 14 through 19. Someone might argue that these objects are described in Genesis 1:14-19, but notice that the word used in these verses is making ( asah) not creating ( bara). If the shamayim includes everything in the sky, this includes the sun, moon, and the stars. ![]() It is interesting that the Hebrew shamayim, according to Young's Analytical Concordance, has a root that means “heaved up things.” Whatever the understanding of the ancients might have been, today it is clear that the expanding universe fits such a description. ![]() What this means is that everything above and everything below were brought into existence by a miraculous act of God. The things created, according to verse 1, are the heaven ( shamayim) and the earth. The first verse of Genesis is a creation ( bara) verse, not a making ( asah) verse. It may be helpful to the reader to use the biblical text with the Hebrew words that are listed in Appendix A to follow this discussion. GOD'S REVELATION IN HIS ROCKSĪND IN HIS WORD by John N. ![]()
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