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From Eden to Egypt: Exploring the Genesis Themes is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis comes first in the biblical canon and arguably forms the foundation for understanding the rest of the Bible. Its great narratives of the patriarchs and exciting stories capture the imagination of the youngest reader, and its great themes, like creation, the fall, and the flood help answer many questions. Important issues are all dealt with ably, but this is not a technical commentary; the...

original unformed state of these materials when God brought them into being and before He began to impose order and system to transform them into the wonderful universe we now know. Speaking of God’s creative work the writer to the Hebrews says: “… what is seen was not made out of what was visible” (Hebrews 11:3). If the materials were not visible then clearly they did not exist originally. But not everyone, it would seem, agrees with that as is evident from certain versions of the Bible. For example,
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