Excerpt from Genesis One
These illuminations I want to pass on in the following article.
To save time, suppose we analyze the statements in the order in which they are made. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). The "and" following "the heaven" probably spans an indefinite period. Let us remember right here that our circumscribed knowledge of language places a barrier over which we cannot always unerringly pass, and because of which we need constantly to remind ourselves that there is danger of misunderstanding and of misinterpreting the original manuscripts.
The "Heaven" from Geology, as well as from the Genesis record, was first in the order of creation. Then the earth. The idea is abroad that at one time the earth underwent a cataclysmic change. But there is also the inherent possibility that its creation was cataclysmic - it surely could be classified as such if its existence is due to a disrupted sun. One of the accepted assumptions is that the earth is a mass thrown off from one or more of the heavenly bodies. Some suggest the sun. This latter hypothesis may or may not be correct, but it is reasonably certain that a mass of cast-off material was made into our earth.
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