1. The Creation - Chaos and Order [Genesis 1]
  2. Tohu & Bohu
    1. Jeremiah ?
  3. Why mention - "In the beginning"?
    1. Our history or G_d's?
    2. Beginning of time or existence?
  4. Without Form and Void?
    1. Tohu & Bohu
    2. Earth w/o form and void?
      1. How is this possible?
      2. What are we to understand by this?
  5. "face of the deep"?
    1. Is this the same as the "face of the waters"?
    2. Is there any significance that "darkness" was over the deep and Spirit of G_d was over the "water"?
  6. The term "face"
    1. Is this just what it sounds?
    2. Does this imply life?
  7. "Spirit of G_d"?
    1. Hovering?
      1. Is this a significant clarification unlike the darkness 'just' being over the deep?
      2. cf. Jesus' baptism
      3. cf. Noah - flood
    2. Why just mention the water?
    3. Spirit:
      1. Breath
        1. cf. Gen. 2.7 [G_d's Breath]
      2. Wind
        1. cf. @ Re[e]d Sea
        2. cf. Acts 2 - Great wind
  8. View of water?
    1. Other mentions?
      1. The Flood
        1. Used to Judge [Creation]
        2. Salvific - Noah [family]
      2. Moses
        1. The Nile
          1. Used to Judge [Male Slaves]
          2. Salvific [Israel]
        2. Red Sea
          1. Used to Judge [Egypt]
          2. Salvific [Israel]
      3. Jonah
        1. Preferred to Ninevah
          1. Irony?
        2. Used to Judge [Jonah]
      4. Jesus
        1. Walking on...
        2. Calming...
        3. Fishing in deep water
        4. Baptism [repentance]
        5. ...as Living Water
    2. Chaos
    3. Evil
    4. Pagan Ideas
    5. Baptism
      1. Repentance
      2. New Birth
        1. Gentile --> Jew