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  2. Genesis creation narrative - Wikipedia

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    The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.

  3. Creation of life from clay - Wikipedia

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    So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." [16]" [New Revised Standard Version]. The word adam may refer to that this being was an "earthling" formed from the red-hued clay of the earth (in Hebrew, adom means "red", adamah means "earth"). [17]

  4. Genesis 1:3 - Wikipedia

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    The light is described as being created here before the sun, moon, and stars, which appear on the fourth day (Genesis 1:14–19). [10] In some Jewish interpretations, the light created here is a primordial light, different in nature from (and brighter than) that associated with the sun. [ 11 ]

  5. The Light Within: God’s blessings come from the light within us

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    I believe he was confirming that if we turn our mental sight (thoughts) to God we can experience spiritual light (God’s presence) in the body, including love, charity, peace, health, strength ...

  6. Bereshit (parashah) - Wikipedia

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    The Gemara explained that the light of which Rav Judah taught was the light of which Rabbi Eleazar spoke when he said that by the light that God created on the first day, one could see from one end of the world to the other; but as soon as God saw the corrupt generations of the Flood and the Dispersion, God hid the light from them, as Job 38:15 ...

  7. Primeval history - Wikipedia

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    The Atrahasis epic tells how the gods created mankind from dust Garden of Eden: The god and goddess Enki and Ninhursag enjoyed a Tree of Life; the serpent in Genesis recalls the god Apsu in the Enuma Elish. Cain and Abel: Cain and Abel are paralleled by the gods Dumuzi and Enkimdu Genealogies

  8. Genesis 1:1 - Wikipedia

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    Genesis 1:1 forms the basis for the Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo).Some scholars still support this reading, [5] but most agree that on strictly linguistic and exegetical grounds this is not the preferred option, [6] [7] [8] and that the authors of Genesis 1 were concerned not with the origins of matter (the material which God formed into the habitable ...

  9. Hexaemeron - Wikipedia

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    For Ephrem, this signifies that the formation of the elements post-dated the void. According to Theophilus, this passage demonstrates that the formless matter did not exist always but was created by God. The terms "darkness" and "deep" that then appear refer to an absence of light and/or an extreme depth of water that prevents seeing.