There was a lot of repetitive wording and interesting wording within the creations stories.\u00a0 A lot has already been said on it, however I would like to reiterate how interesting I found the repetition in phrases such as “and God said”, “God saw that and it was good”, and even the use of “evening” and “morning” when those are typically not the only words we would use to describe the times of day.<\/p>\n
There is also a lot of parallelism used throughout the creation – the first three days and the second three days have some glaring parallels.\u00a0 In the first three days, I think that God is sort of creating an outline or a mold for the world.\u00a0 On day 1, light and darkness are created, on day 2, the firmaments and the sky\/sea are created, and on day 3 vegetation and dry land are created.\u00a0 Then on the next three days, I believe gods is filling in the outlines he’s made and adding to the mold he created.\u00a0 On day 4, the sun, moon, and stars are created.\u00a0 On day 5, the fish and the birds are created, the first inhabitants!\u00a0 And then finally, on day 6, more animals and people are created.\u00a0 And the first three days even align with each other.\u00a0 Day 1 and Day 4 both have to do with light, as the sun\/moon\/stars emit light.\u00a0 Day 2 and Day 5 both have to do with the land and sky – one creates the habitat, and the other fills in the habitats with inhabitants.\u00a0 Then finally, Day 3 and Day 6 put ground and vegetation and inhabitants for that ground\/vegetation.\u00a0 The days are parallel, God goes from creating the outline to filling it in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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