Creation of the World

Genesis 1:1

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

NLT

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Creation stated as an act of will, not accident — the claim the rest of the narrative rests on.

Genesis 1:1 introduces the Bible with the statement of God creating the heavens and the earth. This verse sets the stage for the Biblical narrative, emphasizing the power and sovereignty of God in the act of creation, foundational to Judeo-Christian cosmology.

Light

Affirms the belief in a purposeful creation and divine order.

Shadow

Risk of dismissing scientific explanations of the universe.

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  • Gave rise toSefer YetzirahAttested

    Sefer Yetzirah rewrites the creation it quotes, lifting tohu and bohu from Genesis 1:2 at 1:11 while replacing the spoken days with twenty-two letters engraved, hewn and combined.

  • Set againstEnūma ElišDisputed

    The resemblances — a watery beginning, a firmament dividing the waters, the making of lights for the calendar — are real and were fought over publicly from Delitzsch's lecture of 13 January 1902; the etymology of tehom from Tiamat, long the popular proof, is rejected by most scholars.

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