Genesis 1: 1-2

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Wile reading Genesis 1:1-2:4, it is immediately clear that God, is someone powerful, He is the deity; this is shown by the repetition of His name very often through the text. God created the world by first forming Heaven and Earth followed by light and dark only by speaking the words for his creations to come alive. Personally, this reading is entirely climatic to me when thinking of only the priestly view of the Earth being created by only words of God. However, the real climatic part of this account is when God creates animals and man because this is when everything changes, there is now something more than Earth, water, day and night. The verses of this reading flow very well and is easy to read which makes the style of writing seem

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