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God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
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Life from the Lifeless
Scholars stress that when God commanded the earth to "bring forth" living creatures, it wasn't the earth acting on its own. John Calvin calls it a profound miracle for life to come from a "dead element." The power was not in the soil but in the word of God, demonstrating His absolute authority over creation and distinguishing the biblical account from pagan myths of spontaneous generation.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
24. בהמה behēmâh — “cattle; dumb, tame beasts.”
רמשׂ remeś — “creeping (small or low) animals…
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM.
Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Ge…
Baptist
There is as much wisdom and care displayed in the creation of the tiniest creeping insect as in the creation of leviathan himself.
Those who…
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16th Century
Protestant
Let the earth bring forth. He moves to the sixth day, on which the animals were created, and then man. Let the earth, He says,
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind All sorts …
God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and beasts, and a…
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