Perhaps I am misunderstanding your use of the word instantiation. I took this to mean God forming heaven and earth out what already existed, the primordial chaos.
As to the scholarship I'm using, right now this you. I have a general understanding of the basics of Biblical theology, the basic...
Thank you for an informational reply. At this point of my inquiry I'm leaning toward an intervention concerning the primordial chaos. Less of the nature of the intervention but the nature of the results. This is the crux of my op.
This seems to be an interpretation of a pretty effed up model of the world. Do we still want to use a geocentric model of the firmament also.
I believe there is more meaning to the very opening of my scriptures than trying to fit it into that perverted view of my reality.
The new age movement started a whole process of fuzzy feel good thinking. In the real search for the ethereal their thinking became ethereal.
Jaywalker seems to be trying to make a point about the void but he's an ethereal presence at best.
I like to start at the beginning. Every story needs a...
This is an answer that is on point. It brought up something I've seen yet no one has ever brought up and that is when was the sky created? It shows up in Genesis 1:20 as the open firmament of heaven. It's not clear when it was formed.
What is clear is that the firmament of heaven was formed on...
That they have a weird view of the cosmos is not relevant to to the narrative. Let's just look at what was written instead of what was written about it. Where the sun the moon and the stars are is outer space. That's the fimament.