I didn't cover you whole post as these few points are long enough as it is. The earth was like that at the end of day 1 as the only created thing on it was light from the sun. It had a form then so to be without a form would be at the beginning of day 1 when God spoke the words and the holy spirit manifested it into reality.
A wasteland can still be 'visited'. The 'void' in the Bible seems to be more like the universe if it kept expanding until matter was spread so far apart from each other that on even 1 star was shedding light
This also applies does it not?
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[TD]H922[/TD]
[TD]בֹּהוּ[/TD]
[TD]bohuw[/TD]
[TD]void, emptiness[/TD]
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Water of the deep is associated with the void as water on earth seems to be a day 2 event rather than it being accomplished in day 1.
All I get is this.
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[TD]H7549[/TD]
[TD]רָקִיעַ[/TD]
[TD]raqiya`[/TD]
[TD]firmament[/TD]
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How about if I use a term that simply means something that can be touched. In this case it is liquid water on the surface of the earth (for the first time) and as clouds of water above the surface of the earth. A place for these beings to exist.
Ge:1:20:
And God said,
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Light was spoken into existence at the end of day 1, that would put a crimp in living on earth before that would it not? Even the sun and moon were not given names before day 4 yet they existed when day 1 ended.
A wasteland can still be 'visited'. The 'void' in the Bible seems to be more like the universe if it kept expanding until matter was spread so far apart from each other that on even 1 star was shedding light
This also applies does it not?
[TABLE="class: responsive-table"]
[TR="class: lexiconcData"]
[TD]H922[/TD]
[TD]בֹּהוּ[/TD]
[TD]bohuw[/TD]
[TD]void, emptiness[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Water of the deep is associated with the void as water on earth seems to be a day 2 event rather than it being accomplished in day 1.
All I get is this.
[TABLE="class: responsive-table"]
[TR="class: lexiconcData"]
[TD]H7549[/TD]
[TD]רָקִיעַ[/TD]
[TD]raqiya`[/TD]
[TD]firmament[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
How about if I use a term that simply means something that can be touched. In this case it is liquid water on the surface of the earth (for the first time) and as clouds of water above the surface of the earth. A place for these beings to exist.
Ge:1:20:
And God said,
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Light was spoken into existence at the end of day 1, that would put a crimp in living on earth before that would it not? Even the sun and moon were not given names before day 4 yet they existed when day 1 ended.
OT:922 בֹּ֫הוּ) noun [masculine] emptiness (on form see Ges§ 84 a, 1 b Sta§ 95, 198 a, on usage compare LagOr. ii. 60 f.) always with תֹהוּ) q. v.; — תֹהוּ וָבֹּ֫הוּ)
Gen 1:2 of primeval earth; Jer 4:23 of earth under judgment of וְאַבְנֵי בֹהוּ קַן־תֿהוּ Isa 34:11, the line of wasteness and the stones of emptiness, i.e. plummets, employed, not as usual for building, but for destroying walls; compare Di & see below א6אבן (from Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database. Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)