The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

42 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALlike manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going afterstrange ftesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeanceof eterna! fire."Now back to Genesis l:l-2. Verse l, as stated above, impliesa perfect creation. God is the author of life, of beauty, of perfection.Satan has brought only darkness, ugliness, imperfection,violence. Verse l shows the creation of a perfect earth, gloriousand beautiful. Verse 2 reveals the result of the sin of the angels."And the earth was [became] without form, and void." Thewords "without form and void" are translated from the Hebrewtohu and bohu. A better translation is "waste and empty" or"chaotic and in confusion." The word "was" is elsewhere in Genesistranslated "became," as in Genesis 19:26. In other words, theearth, originally created perfect and beautiful, had now becomechaotic, waste, and empty, like our moon, except its surface wascovered with water.David was inspired to reveal how God renewed the face ofthe earth: "Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: andthou renewest the face of the earth" (Ps. 104:30).Now another surprise for most readers. Here is another bit ofthe missing dimension in knowledge, actually revealed in theBible, but unrecognized by religion, by science, and by highereducation.From verse 2 of Genesis l on, the remainder of this firstchapter of the Bible is not describing the original creation of theearth. But it is describing a renewing of the face of the earth, afterit had become waste and empty as a result ofthe sin ofthe angels.What is described from verse 2 on, in the supposed "Creationchapter" of the Bible, did occur, according to the Bible. approximately6,000 years ago. But that could have been millions or trillionsof years after the actual creation of the earth described inverse l!1 will comment la ter on the length of time it might ha ve takenbefore all earth's angels turned to rebellion.The earth had become waste and empty. God did not create itwaste and empty, or in confusion. God is not the author of confusion(1 Cor. 14:33). This same Hebrew word- tohu- meaningwaste and empty, was inspired in Isaiah 45:18, where it is trans-