The Fiat of Creation – Days One & Two

Question 1

Elohim (1st Day)

Gen. 1:1-5 “In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heaven & the earth.”

Answer 1

conveys both unity of one God & allows for the plurality of person

Question 2

Heaven (1st day)

Answer 2

Heb. “Shamayim” means simply stretched out space or there in it. (2nd heaven)

Question 3

Earth (1st day)

Answer 3

Heb. “Erets” means earth, dirt, land or figuratively matter.

Question 4

Light (1st day)

Answer 4

Heb. “Owr” means light or luminary (power like lightning or energy).
•The light created here seems to include the entire electromagnetic spectrum from short wave gamma rays to long wave radio waves.

Question 5

Morning (1st day)

Answer 5

Heb. “Boqer” בקר dawn, or the break of day, morning

Question 6

Evening (1st day)

Answer 6

Heb. “Ereb” dusk or evening

Question 7

First (1st day)

Answer 7

Heb. “Echad” one, first

Question 8

Day (1st day)

Answer 8

Heb. “Yom” is singular and literally means a period of light, sunrise to sunset.
–The Hebrew words for a long period of time are “Olam” & “Qedem” and neither of these words are used in Genesis 1.

Question 9

Night (1st day)

Answer 9

Heb. “Laylah” means night or literally a twisting away from the light.
•This twisting movement sets the universe in motion which begins time as we know it here on Earth

Question 10

2nd day of creation God

Answer 10

creates an Earthly environment for the next part of his creation

Question 11

Fimament

God creates a firmament in the heavens – what does this refer to? (Gen. 7:11)

Answer 11

Heb. “Raqiya” literally means an expanse of plates or broad plates.
•This may have been a vapor canopy or cloud covering or ice crystal canopy over the Earth. Similar to our ozone layer but thicker. It separates 2nd heaven (space) from the 1st heaven (the sky), third heaven.

Question 12

•What would this canopy do to Earth?

Answer 12

It would filter out Gamma Rays, x-Rays ultraviolet rays which slows the decay rate.
•Slow decay rate would increase the size & life spans of all animal species.
•A greenhouse effect all over the Earth similar to a terrarium

Question 13

Effects of the Firmament

Answer 13

• Global moderate climate
• Continual growing seasons
• Universal lush vegetation all over the Earth
• No Changing Seasons (No winter) or storms
• No deserts or ice wastelands
• No rain, dew would water the Earth each morning.
• This shielding would inhibit the formation of radioactive carbon which changes carbon dating.
• Venus is shielded by a vapor so dense we can’t see through it to the surface
• Saturn’s moon Titan has a vapor canopy

Question 14

Natural Law teaches

Answer 14

“ex nihilo nihil fit” Latin for “out of nothing, nothing comes”