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  1. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Yet as soon as something become plural, dualities exist. And, neither is a "bunch " one grape.
  2. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Language is tricky. Your using a whole nuther set of terms here. Let's start with the unconditional mind if you please. Is this more than a mind that is not bound by the here and now? I've heard Kaku expound on this in connection with quantum physics.
  3. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    My understanding is that it's a plural noun but used in the singular.
  4. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Language is tricky. My understanding of the word used for heaven in 1:1 is a plural used as a singular much like we say a bunch of grapes; one bunch but many grapes. This leads me to think that heaven has the same dualistic qualities of of the creation.
  5. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Except that only one heaven was created in 1:1
  6. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    It begs the question why did God need another unfathomable place when apparently he already operated from one.
  7. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Would you see this as the spirit of God moving on the face of the waters?
  8. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    An informative post. For some reason the way I see scripture, it's meaning seems unhindered by anyone else's opinions on the matter but more an understanding of the English language. That said the singular usage of the Hebrew word for heaven seems to imply duality in heaven in verse 1:1 which...
  9. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Nothing to do with Genesis but a cool bunny trail you hop on.
  10. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    In reality I'm looking at the Biblical account with a view that the Biblical world and the natural world coincided at " the beginning " and trying to understand if the beginning included a preexisting natural world.
  11. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Also, doesn't any inquiry need a control?
  12. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    So far, I see no conflict between the Biblical account and Taoism. I'm therefore trying to deepen my understanding of Genesis as the narrow minded Biblist I claim to be.
  13. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Well, because I'm looking at Genesis 1.
  14. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    A long and thoughtful reply. Thank you for the time and effort. And I think I'm one of those boys. I really am trying to keep this simple. As a foil for my look at the beginning is the Taoist cosmology. Simply put it says out of the great emptiness arose the supreme ultimate which gave rise to...
  15. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Job 21:3
  16. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Also, according to the text, the firmament of heaven (the second heaven) contained the celestial bodies. That's not emptiness. So is the the firmament of heaven a product of the dichotomy. Finally, are heaven and earth part of the dichotomy that was first mentioned as being created?
  17. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    I agree that God created dichotomies. Yet one of the first dichotomies created was heaven and earth and yet it was earth that was formless and void not heaven.
  18. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    KJV calls it heaven. Now if heaven has no physicality then why does everything else that was formed or created have physicality?
  19. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Very authoritarian of you.
  20. sandy whitelinger

    In the Beginning...of What?

    Suck it up buttercup, this is a debate.
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