Re: [asa] Light, waters, days of Genesis

Thanks Paul,

I see your point for BBT in the first verse of Genesis. God was causal to BBT which did create the heavens and Earth (once they formed after the initial event).

Your other works are very interesting. The historical background is excellent. I hope to read these closer when time allows.

My effort in this "thread" is to weigh the merits of a more literal view within the framework of an acutal observer witnessing the events on six different days he was chosen to see. The account does seem to allow for a plausible solar system formation scenario:

    A protoplanet being formed within the Solar disk that would appear as "without form and void".
    The darkness and the deep.
    The appearance of the solar accretion disk argueably describable as waters (the Spirit moving or hovering over them).
    The first light bursting from the Sun's dust shroud (Let there be light).
    That this light would be very good. [Sunlight is energy for life; no Sun, no life. But it was also the light from this specific star that would bring forth the wonder of mankind, eventually.]
    It is the light from the Sun that we know as daylight. God called the Genesis first light Day. Coincidence?
    Another local watery-looking accretion disk would have been likely and would have become separated with time from the Solar disk. The author seems to be clearly between them and in the hand of God, ruler of heaven.
 
These and other premises I would like to kick around from both sides of the fence: science and theology.

If anyone knows of this scenario haven arisen elsewhere, I would love to see it.
    
    
GeorgeA

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Paul
  To: George Cooper
  Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Light, waters, days of Genesis

  Thanks for the reply, George.

  Let me correct just one misunderstanding. I agree that the Big Bang is not being described or mentioned in Genesis 1. My point is that the theological import of Gen 1:1 is such that modern readers can legitimately apply it to the Big Bang, not that Gen has any direct reference to it.

  The meaning of Day 2 within its historical-cultural-biblical context is that the sky understood as a solid dome was used by God to divide the primeval water into two parts, one of which was literal waters above the sky, that is above the sun, moon and all the stars. If interested in details on this, see my paper at http://www.occasioncameras.com/creationdays/pdf/earth.seaseely.wtj.pdf for the sky, and at www.thedivinecouncil.com/seelypt2.pdf for the waters above it.

  Paul

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