The first act of creation in the Hebrew Bible is the rush of Spirit into a “formless void.” Before God whispered light into being, or split the water from dry land, or watched organisms form and swarm until each habitat on earth teemed with creeping, flapping, swimming life, Spirit flooded chaos.
The text doesn’t indicate what Spirit did to the chaotic m…
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