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