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How It All Began: Genesis 1–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Not how but Who-Not when but why! The rest of the Bible cannot be understood without these opening chapters. God created a good world, a stage for fellowship with His highest creation, mankind. But mankind rebelled. This is not the world that God created it to be! He has committed Himself restore it: (1) Messiah will come (cf. 3:15); (2) God calls one to call all (cf. 12:1–3); (3) God’s grace is...

has translated Gen. 1:1 a temporal clause, “When God began to create the heaven and the earth—the earth being unformed and void …” This translation might conclude that God and matter are co-eternal like Greek cosmology (cf. “Creation and Cosmology” in Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 5, p. 1059). The Sumerian account of creation, Enuma Elish, begins with “when in the beginning …” See Special Topic: Names for Deity at 2:4. ■ “created” Bara (cf. 1:1, 21, 27; 2:3, 4) is the Hebrew VERB (BDB 135, KB 153, Qal
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