Science & Faith
Exploring My Strange Bible
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Genesis Chapter One - God's Not Making or Manufacturing Anything
In ancient neris one of the most common motifs for cosmologys, especially babylonian and canaanite, is a motif called theomace. Theo god mace comes from macos, which means fighting or battle. This would be jawdropping in the ancient neras the perception of god here in genesis chapter one. And as you work through the days and genesis chapter one, often god's not making or manufacturing anything. He's creating, as john walton says, he's bringing function and order out of chaos. In sumerians we have an idea of gersu slaying a seven headed dragon to make the world. Yam also fights another god to
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