Sermon Tone Analysis

*My Interpretation of the Scientific Theory of Evolution of the Universe from Genesis Cosmogony in the King James Version Text 1611*

I will quote some statements from Genesis and follow them some explanatory remarks.

Gen. I,1-2:" (a) In the beginning (b) God (c) created the (d) heaven and the (e)earth.

And the earth (f) was (g) without form and void; and *(h) darkness was upon the face of the (i) deep.

And the Spirit of God (j) moved upon the face of the (k) waters."

15 TO 30 BILLION YEARS AGO: THE INITIAL EXPLOSION AND BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE ALSO KNOWN AS "THE BIG BANG"; 12 TO 11 BILLION YEARS AGO: ORIGIN OF THE OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY; 10 TO 5 BILLION YEARS AGO: CONTINUED EXPANSION OF GALAXIES; 5 TO 4.6 BILLION YEARS AGO: FORMATION OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND SUN; 4.55 TO 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO: FORMATION OF THE EARTH; 4.4 TO 4.2 BILLION YEARS AGO: FORMATION OF OUR MOON; PRIMITIVE OCEAN LIFE {PRE-CAMBRIAN} *APPROXIMATELY 4.1 TO 3.8 BILLION YEARS AGO: ORIGIN OF LIFE AND BEGINNING OF CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OR PROTO-LIFE I.E., SINGLE STRAND RNA MOLECULES; 3.8 TO 3.5 TO BILLION YEARS AGO: FORMATION OF OCEANS, OLDEST ROCKS KNOWN; VIRUSES AND GENES.

Modern scientists say that this was the condition of the earth when it was in its nebular state- "in the beginning."

The name which is most frequently used for the God of the Bible is Jehovah.

Among the ancient Jews it was more nearly Jahw or Jahwe (Yahwe) or Jhoh.

The ancient Jews considered the name so sacred that it was sacrilegious to pronounce it; the injunction (Exod.

xx,7) "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," was construed to mean, not to pronounce the name at all, so that the readers (cantors) in the Jewish synagogues always said "Adonai" when the written text was Yahwe.

The name means "he who causes to be" or written "Creator."

The vast majority of people will agree that "God" (whoever or whatever he may be) created the heaven and earth.

The "Waters" possibly mean "fluids," as this is claimed by some authorities to be a more correct translation; if so, this might be construed to refer to the earth when it had condensed from a nebular consistence to a liquid or molten condition, or when it was gaseous.

Whatever we may understand by the "spirit of God," when matter had been assembled, force acted upon it, motion resulted and the earth commenced to rotate.

The obloid shape of our globe proves that it rotated before it became figid solid.

Footnotes

(a) See The dateless past below.

(b) Heb.

Elohim, Gods.

Elohim is the word for God in Gen. 1:1 and in over 2,700 other places in the O.T.

It is a uni-plural noun meaning Gods and is so trans.

(c) Heb.

"Bara- to create", to bring into being.

(d) Heb.

heaven, nearly always in the plural.

(e) Earth.

Dry land (v 10).

(f) And is used 148 times in Gen. 1-2 to separate the 102 recorded independent acts of God.

V 2 is as independent of v 1 as to time and subject matter as all the other separate acts of God.

V 1 refers to the whole universe being created and inhabitated in the *dateless past, (i.e. 15 TO 30 BILLION YEARS AGO: THE INITIAL EXPLOSION AND BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE ALSO KNOWN AS "THE BIG BANG" AFTER THE EXPRESSION COINED BY BELGIAN ASTRONOMER GEORGE EDWARD LEMAITRE (1894-1966); 12 TO 11 BILLION YEARS AGO: THE FORMATION OF THE OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY; 10 TO 5 BILLION YEARS AGO: THE CONTINUED EXPANSION OF GALAXIES; 5 TO 4.6 BILLION YEARS AGO: THE FORMATION OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND SUN; 4.55 TO 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO: THE FORMATION OF THE EARTH; 4.4 TO 4.3 BILLION YEARS AGO: THE FORMATION OF OUR MOON; 3.8 TO 3.5 TO BILLION YEARS AGO: FORMATION OF OCEANS, OLDEST ROCKS KNOWN),

while v 2 refers of chaos on earth because of sin.

The dateless past V 1 is the introduction to the whole Bible and all history, for it marks the boundary between time and eternity.

Job.

38:4-7 makes it clear that the heavens were created first else the stars could not have rejoiced when the earth created.

In the beginning, the dateless past, and not in 6 days or 6,000 years ago, God created the heavens, including the sun, moon, and stars- all the heavenly bodies in space.

The heavens were created before the earth was.

Cp.

Job.

38:4-7.

We cannot say definitely how old the earth is because we do not know WHEN the beginning was.

Gods creation of the heavens and the earth could have been millions and billions of years ago.

If geologists can prove the age of the earth to be what they claim, we have no scriptural authority to disagree.

They cannot contradict the Bible, for it does not reveal any time element in connection with the earth's original creation.

Now this much is certain, according to Scipture, that the earth is more than 6,000 years old, and there were inhabitants on the earth before the days of Adam.

(g) Was.

Heb.

haya, became.

Trans.

became is used 67 times (Gen.

2:7; 19:26; 20:12; 24:67; etc.); becamest (Chr.

17:22; 16:8); came and came to pass 505 times (Gen.

14:1; 6:1,4; 11:2,5; etc.); become 66 times (Gen.

3:22; 18:18; 48:19; etc.); come to pass 131 times (Gen.

4:14; 6:13; 27:40; etc.); and be in the sense of become (Gen.

1:3,6,9,14; 3:5; etc.)

(h) Without.

Heb.

tohu va bohu, meaning waste and empty (Jer.

4:23).

The earh was not created tohu in the beginning (Isa.

45:18), but became tohu because of sin.

The Heb. for void is bohu, empty, ruin, void.

It is trans.

void (v 2; Jer.

4:23); and emptiness (Isa.

34:11).

The Heb. phrase tohu va bohu, waste and empty, describes the chaotic condition of the earth at the time it was cursed and made flooded because of the sins of Lucifer and the pre-Adamites.

It could not refer to the earth as originally created- beautiful, perfect, dry land.

(i) Deep.

Lucifer's flood, This flood was more devastating and lasted longer than Noah's flood, for it destroyed even vegetation, while the 1 year and 17 days of Noah's flood did not.

(j) Moved.

Heb.

rachaph, to brood, relax, flutter.

Trans.

fluttereth.

(k) Waters.

In this verse we have the existence of earth, darkness, and waters before day 1.

Gen. I,3: "And (l) God said, (m) Let there (n) be light, and (o) there was (p) light."

4.55 TO 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO: FORMATION OF THE EARTH.

The nebular mass in which the sun, earth, and all the planets were still undifferentiated glowed with a light consisting of only a few vibrations in the blue and green spectrum, but it was not the light of the sun.

Later, when the earth had cooled so that the gaseous form had changed to liquid, this melted material glowed with light which had a perfect spectrum.

Footnotes

(l) God.

God said, 10 times at the beginning of each day; 3rd day 2 times; 6th day 4 times (v 3,6,9,11,14,20,24,26,28,29)

(m) Let.

Let is used 13 times in this chapter; 1,464 times else where, and in no case is an original creative act implied.

The sense is made appear or made visible, expressing permission and purpose in connection with already existing things.

The light, firmament, waters earth, darknessand all other things mentioned here were already in existence, but had been thrown into chaos and the laws which previously governed them had ben made void.

The very purpose of their existence had been annulled because of sin.

Now, in the restoration to perfection and original usefullness, God merely commands and the sun again gives light on this planet, as it had done all through Lucifer's kingdom (Jer.

4:23-26; 2 Pet.

3:5-8).

Thus the light of days 1,2,&3 came from the sun as had been the case every day since.

Cp. let Gen. 13:8; 18:4; 24:14-18; Mt. 7:4; 13:30; 27:22; Jn. 14:1; Phil.

2:5 for the true sense.

(n) Be.

Become, not the verb to be Let there become light and there became light.

(o) There.

Became, as noted above.

(p) Light.

First appearance of light from the sun since God commanded the heavens to withold light from the earth causing the judgmement of v 2 (Jer.

4:23-26.

Cp.2 Cor.

4:6)

Gen. I,4: " And (q) God saw the light, that it was (r) good."