Hi trossthree,
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I think a good idea for you is to perhaps research the spiritual creation/physical creation idea.
graft2vine's post in
Message 18 likeness = phantom (or spirit?) and image = concrete (or physical?) would appear to support your idea of a spiritual and a physical creation.
Entities of spirit would not need an order of physical creation if they do not breathe, eat, drink, etc.
I think the first verse is about the scientific parallel, the big bang. Everything was created and would logically sort itself out because of natural law.
Verses Gen 1:2 could easily be a physical organization of matter 13.5 billion years later (what is a billion years to a being who has always existed?) when the material was available.
Gen 1:3 then goes back to the spiritual (design?) creation while the earth cools down. I can look at a software project design and pronounce it good and completely envision it even though not one line of code exists for it.
Gen 1:26 then would be the idea/design/spirit creation of man (Adam and Eve) before the physical creation.
Gen 2:5 separates the spiritual from the physical (every plant before it was in the earth) but no physical man to till the ground.
Gen 2:8 could refer to a preceeding physical garden created to be Adam's home with the physical earth to have vegatation added then animals.
Gen 2:21 winds up the whole creation with it's pinnacle, Eve.
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