the Genesis story<\/a> differently.<\/p>\nIt seems that these ancient stories of creation were not about \u201ccreation out of nothing\u201d but \u201dcreation from something<\/em>\u201d\u2014namely some chaotic watery threat, which these stories personify as a sea monster\/serpent.<\/p>\nThe god who gets the credit for creating the cosmos (and therefore enthroned as the high god of the pantheon) is the one who tames or orders the chaos so that life can exist. <\/em><\/strong>In other words, creation is not \u201cout of nothing\u201d but works with pre-existent material, namely water that needs to be controlled.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s how these ancient stories put it. A Mesopotamian version has the high god Marduk slaying the watery chaos\/sea monster\/deity Tiamat to bring order. In Canaanite culture, it is the god Baal (who makes numerous cameo appearances in the Old Testament) who defeats the sea god Yam.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s all well and good, but then these biblical scholars (probably Communists influenced by Hegel or Schleiermacher) suggested that the creation story in Genesis 1 is\u00a0also<\/em> about creation from something, namely water. Why would they say that, apart from the fact that they were probably nihilists and New Age propagandists?<\/p>\nBecause in the Genesis story we read :<\/p>\n
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,\u00a0the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep<\/strong>, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters<\/strong>. <\/em>(Genesis 1:1-2)<\/p>\nThe\u00a0earth was \u201cthere\u201d but as a \u201cformless void.\u201d\u00a0 What made it so? Something called \u201cthe deep\u201d which is explained in the next line as \u201cthe waters.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0water\/deep is a problem that has to be solved. So what God does is split<\/em> this watery mass,\u00a0separating<\/em> the waters above from the waters below (Genesis 1:6-8) and then the next day\u00a0separating<\/em> the waters below to let the dry land appear (verses 9-10).<\/p>\nEven though there is no slaying of a sea monster, it\u2019s hard to miss the similarity: Genesis, like these other stories, talks about creation as something to do with putting water\/chaos in its place to allow a habitable world to appear (the atmosphere, the oceans, and land).<\/p>\n
And elsewhere in the Old Testament, we read this:<\/p>\n
By his power he stilled the Sea;\u00a0by his understanding he struck down Rahab.\u00a0<\/em>
By his wind the heavens were made fair;\u00a0his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. <\/em>(Job 26:12-13)<\/p>\nHere we see something even more similar to the Mesopotamian and Canaanite stories: the Sea is stilled by striking\u00a0down\/piercing the sea monster, thus making the heavens (sky, atmosphere).<\/p>\n
The Old Testament stories of creation sound a lot like these other stories, which was\u00a0largely the point of these scholars (who probably ran illegal dog fighting rings).<\/p>\n
Other scholars, who actually believed in God, denounced drawing this line between the Bible and these silly myths, holding firm to the Bible rather than the clever tales of sinful scholars, who, I bet, neglected their wives and families a lot because they were out gambling every night.<\/p>\n
So, with that in mind, and getting to my point, we have no choice but to denounce 2 Peter 3:5 as a piece of godless liberalism<\/strong>, which was somehow cleverly inserted into the Bible to undermine the Christian faith, probably by someone trying to justify some sin in his life. I\u2019m not sure how else to handle this:<\/p>\n. . . by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water<\/strong>,\u00a0through which the world of that time was deluged with water and perished.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nNot only does this guy buy into that liberal nonsense about water, thus denying the clear biblical teaching of \u201ccreation out of nothing,\u201d but he also says that the water at creation also destroyed the earth in the flood, probably thinking of the favorite liberal so-called \u201cprooftext\u201d of Genesis 7:11, where we read that the \u201cwindows of the heavens were opened\u201d to (allegedly) allow the \u201cwaters above\u201d that had been kept separate from the waters below (Genesis 1:6-8) can come crashing down.<\/p>\n
What nonsense. I bet Peter skipped church a lot.<\/p>\n
You know, I\u2019m beginning to think that Peter didn\u2019t even write this letter. How could he have, seeing that it contains\u00a0such a drippingly liberal, godless, secular idea? And by promoting such an idea, Peter\u2014this wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing\u2014is in effect calling God a liar, since God clearly says in the Bible that he created everything out of nothing and to suggest anything else\u00a0is to attack God, the Bible, and the Christian faith. Plus God would never confuse us this way in the Bible.<\/p>\n
My argument is unassailable and the entire Christian\u00a0faith hangs on it. If you disagree, I will call you names on the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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