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It does say what man cannot know without being told:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 offers another great fact:
the earth was without form, and void
This is a condition clearly different from the 1:1 - not a word about the heaven being without form or void, only the earth.
The conjunction "and" between 1:1 and 1:2 does not link
them in time; it is a signal that the first verse is not a
summary of the rest of the chapter.
- But hasty readers and preachers and commentators have been
all too willing to treat 1:1 as a summary, who imagine that
God's beginning creation is detailed under the days below.
- Not so... "and" precludes this interpretation. Compare 5:1,
where "and" is absent and the first verse is a summary of
the chapter following, the generations of Adam.
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