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A series of Bible study guides following the format and content of the NIV Application Commentaries Series. Each study looks at the original meaning, bridging contexts, and contemporary significance of the text, and offers small group participants a better understanding and relevant application of the biblical material to their daily lives.

as dark, chaotic, and formless in 1:1 – 2 is very similar to the mythology of the ancient Near East and would make sense to the people hearing it. However, the naming of God as someone distinct from the creation and in charge of the creation, hovering over it, is a very different view from that of the elements themselves taking on godlike characteristics. 4. “The face value of Genesis 1:3 – 5 does not offer a description of the piece of our material cosmos that physicists know as light with all of