Insightful post. Let me ask you this, keeping in mind that many like to view Genesis creation through the eyes of their percieved concepts of the knowledge of the times: how would that ancient scholar describe the plasma that was the entire universe for a short time?
Since I've accepted the Biblical world by faith and the natural world by my senses I've certainly had the same experience you have. It even has a name, non-overlapping magisteria.
Useful or not, that is how Merriam Webster defines income. I do not like mushy meanings outside of the definitions. It make communication hopeless.
You made a judgement I think. I only followed the definition of income.
There are three heavens. Where God resides is the third heaven. This was created in verse 1:1.
God created the "firmament of heaven" on the second day. This is the second heaven. It separated the waters of the deep. The waters from above were in the the third heaven where God resides. The...