GENESIS - CHAPTER # 1 - 1:28
GENESIS - CHAPTER # 1 1:1 > Elohim ( sometimes El or Elah ), English form "God" the first of the three primary name of Deity, is a uni-plural noun formed El = strength, or the strong one, and Alah, to swear, to bind oneself by an oath, so implying faithfulness. This uni-plurality implied in the name is directly asserted primarily the Strong One it is fitly used in the first chapter of Genesis. Used in the Old Testament about 2500 times. See Genesis 2:4, note 2:7; 24:18, note; 15:2, note; 17:1, note, 21:33, note, 1 Samuel 1:3, note. But three creative acts of God are recorded in this chapter: ( 1 ) the heavens and the earth, Verses 1; ( 2 ) animal life, verse 21; and ( 3 ) human life, verses 26__27. The first creative act refers to the dateless past, and gives scope for all geologic ages. 1:2 > Jeremiah 4:23__26, ISAIAH 24:1 and 45:18, clearly indicate that the earth had undergone a cataclysmic change as the result of a divine judgment. T