{"id":36114,"date":"2022-09-13T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-gen-12-and-the-earth-was-without-form-and-void-and-dark-ness-was-upon-the-face-of-the-deep-and-the-spirit-of-god-moved-upon-the-face-of-the-waters-the-linking-verb-was-has-several-different-m\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:42:02","slug":"in-gen-12-and-the-earth-was-without-form-and-void-and-dark-ness-was-upon-the-face-of-the-deep-and-the-spirit-of-god-moved-upon-the-face-of-the-waters-the-linking-verb-was-has-several-different-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-gen-12-and-the-earth-was-without-form-and-void-and-dark-ness-was-upon-the-face-of-the-deep-and-the-spirit-of-god-moved-upon-the-face-of-the-waters-the-linking-verb-was-has-several-different-m\/","title":{"rendered":"IN GEN 1:2 AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID; AND DARK-NESS WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS. THE LINKING VERB WAS, HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT MEANINGS. SO IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GENESIS 1:2 ISSAYING: AND THE EARTH BECAME WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID; and so far? ALSO IF YOU CAN REPLACE THE LINKING VERB WAS, WHAT OTHER VERB WOULD YOU REPLACE IT WITH? THANK YOU (United States) RD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>In considering the sense of Genesis 1:2 we are blessed&nbsp;to have the guidance of investigations into the early earth&rsquo;s geology.&nbsp; The<strong> harmony <\/strong>of the testimony of<strong> Genesis<\/strong> and of the testimony am<strong> geology is amazing<\/strong> &ndash; the earth was covered completely by the ocean [&ldquo;the deep&rdquo;] and the <strong>continents had not yet emerged above the waters<\/strong>.&nbsp; A heavy dense fog of water and carbon dioxide blanketed everything.&nbsp; Hence, the earth indeed <em>was<\/em> [Strong&rsquo;s H1961 &ldquo;hayah&rdquo;] <strong>without form and void <\/strong><em>(empty)<\/em>.&nbsp; While allowing for the complexity of &ldquo;hayah&rdquo; no special adjustments of the KJV translation have been embraced by modern translators.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In considering the sense of Genesis 1:2 we are blessed&nbsp;to have the guidance of investigations into the early earth&rsquo;s geology.&nbsp; The harmony of the testimony of Genesis and of the testimony am geology is amazing &ndash; the earth was covered completely by the ocean [&ldquo;the deep&rdquo;] and the continents had not yet emerged above the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-gen-12-and-the-earth-was-without-form-and-void-and-dark-ness-was-upon-the-face-of-the-deep-and-the-spirit-of-god-moved-upon-the-face-of-the-waters-the-linking-verb-was-has-several-different-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IN GEN 1:2 AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID; AND DARK-NESS WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS. THE LINKING VERB WAS, HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT MEANINGS. SO IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GENESIS 1:2 ISSAYING: AND THE EARTH BECAME WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID; and so far? ALSO IF YOU CAN REPLACE THE LINKING VERB WAS, WHAT OTHER VERB WOULD YOU REPLACE IT WITH? THANK YOU (United States) RD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}