Created ~ bara – always has God as the subject Ex nihilo

Its purpose is not to tell us how the heavens go … but how to go to heaven.

Fortitudinous Concurrences of Accidental Circumstances

Sir Frederick Hoyle ~ 1: Odds of Spontaneous Generation Harold Morowitz, George Mason University ~ 1:10 100,000,000,000

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11.6

… He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world Ephesians 1.4

Hovering ~ rachaph – shake or flutter

The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. Revelation 21.23

10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the L ORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the L ORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the L ORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Day ~ yom – with numeral adjective = always 24-hour period Exodus

Firmament ~ something stretched out, like hammered metal NIV, NASB ~ expanse

Creature ~ nephesh – soul

20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you 21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. 1 Peter