Sunday, December 1, 2024

Creation Moment 12/2/2024 - Supernatural

"Genesis 1 depicts God creating the world supernaturally. As such, there is nothing particularly surprising about such a structure for a week-long supernatural event...... indicate how the word ‘good’
functions in
Genesis 1—it’s a word denoting appreciation of the completion of a creative work. 
Gentry agrees: “the appreciation formula [‘it was good’] follows the completed divine activity”. This is most obvious in Genesis 1:31: “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” Once everything was finished, He called it ‘very good’. Indeed, this is the seventh use of ‘good’ in Genesis 1, and the only time it is intensified with ‘very’." 
CMI