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To: Fatalist
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD That created the heavens; God Himself That formed the earth and made it: He hath established it, He created it NOT in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.


The "in vain" is the same as used in Genesis 1:2 does in fact describe an event which cause the earth to become without form and void = waste.

One might call what follows Genesis 1:2 an environmental clean up.
30 posted on 08/27/2005 10:54:19 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
The "in vain" is the same as used in Genesis 1:2 does in fact describe an event which cause the earth to become without form and void = waste.

You're saying the Hebrew rendered as "in vain" in Isaiah 45:18 is the same word rendered as "void" in Genesis 1:2? And the word implies an actual event? If so, there seems to be a great deal lost in the translation - neither rendering implies a cataclysmic event. It's late, or I'd look into this more, but it really doesn't look like Isaiah is saying anything here other than the fact that God had a purpose in creating the Earth.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Just something to think about...

To my knowledge the only translations that render it "replenish" are modern revisions of the KJV. The NKJV, NASB, NIV and 1611 KJV (I believe - I'm not 100% certain on that last one) all render it "fill".

34 posted on 08/27/2005 11:33:50 PM PDT by Fatalist (60 in 06)
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To: Just mythoughts

Just realized the quote from Genesis 1:28 wasn't from you. Sorry about that.


36 posted on 08/27/2005 11:46:13 PM PDT by Fatalist (60 in 06)
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To: Just mythoughts

No, God created the world and the universe in 6 days

Else, Exodus 20 is a lie

So is Genesis


55 posted on 08/28/2005 3:47:40 AM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: Just mythoughts

The "Gap Theory" is not supported by Scripture. The earth did not "become" without form and void, it "was" without form and void.

Sin did not destroy a pre-Adamic world.

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:


406 posted on 08/30/2005 10:07:05 PM PDT by razorbak
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