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Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:13:57 -0700
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     Here is a description of the week of creation which is taken from a
     novel I began writing a few years ago.  I thought it
     might be of interest to some in gaining a better
     understanding of what perhaps happened during the days of
     creation.  Of course no body can know for sure.  No.  I never finished
the novel.  I just wrote a few chapters.

Snip Snip


     There was no sound; no volume of existence.  nothing was or
had been.  The beginning of all things was not yet.  Time was
unconceived.  There was no emptiness, vacuum, or void.  The
elements of darkness, place, or distance were undefined.  Energy
never was.  dimension was unformed; self had no conception.
There were no particles; no place of being.  There was no power;
no force; no spark.  There was void.
     God was.
     His voice was and there was.  The earth was; without form and
void.  Darkness was upon the face of the deep.  The Spirit of God
moved upon the waters.
     God spoke into the formlessness dimensions of matter and
said, "Let there be light," and there was.  The universe sang as
the fabric of space sprang into material existence with the
illumination of radiation.  The light particles flashed with
blinding brilliance across millions of light years of caliginous
void.  Their song was heard as it echoed across the vastness.
Though there was no man to see the light of space; God saw that it
was good.  He divided the light from the darkness, the day from
the night, and thus they received their names.
     The evening and the morning were the first day.
     The amorphous earth was shrouded with vast vaporous clouds;
billowing through the airless realms.  God considered and His
voice resonated with creative energies.  The waters separated
before His power and authority and gathered upon the face of the
earth.  The etherial waters above the earth mass separated and the
celestial realms unveiled the sky. The open expanse He called
heaven.
     The evening and the morning were the second day.
     God looked upon the liquid omnium and commanded division;
verbally willing them to gather.  The aquatic masses moved with
mountainous force; the sound of millions of cubic square miles of
waters reverberating like the detonation of a dozen suns.  The
earth quaked violently as great continents shouldered their way to
the surface.  The vast oceans banded the globe circuitously and
God called them seas.  The land masses He called earth.  He saw
that they were good.
     Once again His omnipotent voice was heard and He commanded
the earth to bare life.  Grass sprouted, carpeting the earth, and
trees filled the lands; their      bows heavy with seed bearing
fruit.  The lands bulged with mighty green forests; blanketing the
world with their protective canopy of foliage.  flowers sprang to
life; blooming prolifically everywhere; their brilliant colors
splashing the landscape with their beauty and aromatic scent.
     The evening and the morning were the third day.
     Again The Creator sounded His voice and called for the
heavens to give light.  The vast dimension of space suddenly
displaced with a stentorious detonation; giving way to a
pyrophoric mass which ignited a nuclear etherial furnace.  It's
horrific energies blasted into the darkness of the heavens;
throwing its blinding flash omnidirectionally.  The visible and
invisible light waves flew across the millions of miles of black
space to warm the earth by day.  The moon existed simultaneously;
reflecting the sun's conflagration.  He commanded that they should
provide illumination upon earth by day and by night; dividing the
cycle.  He gave them purpose...to provide times and seasons for
the earth and they obeyed.
     The stars also spontaneously flared into galactic brilliance
at the sound of His creative voice and world through space with
eternal precision.  Their individual songs crisscrossed the ebony
void announcing their presence and place in creation.  Their tiny
etherial illuminations softened the harshness of the night's
blackness upon earth and brought comfort.
     The Creator viewed the universe and saw that it was good.
     The evening and the morning were the fourth day.
     The earth was lifeless; no sound of creation to give the
Creator glory.  He spoke and the seas were filled with life.  He
created great whales and every living thing in the vast seas of
earth.  Their continual underwater communications attested to the
Creator's existence.
     By His voice He spoke to the heavens and the skies gave birth
to all winged creatures.  They soared above the waters and land
masses in great abundance; their songs giving praise to the
Creator's handiwork.
     The Creator spoke to the new life and commanded that they
should reproduce and be fruitful in the seas and upon the lands
and it was so.
     The evening and morning were the fifth day.
     God considered the lands He had made and spoke life again.
All cattle and beast of the field, as well as the insect domain
and creeping things upon the earth, now lived; each after his own
kind.
     The earth was watered by a mist; no rain fell.  The world
spun circuitously in its orbit in the emptiness of space.  The
stars glittered across the endless void and formed a twinkling
diamond studded curtain at night.  The waves splashed against
vast smooth beaches around the edges of the great land masses.
Light breeze wafted across the dark emerald forests and birds
sang.  Life was everywhere; new, moving; listening; communicating;
breathing.  The Creator was pleased, though His work was not yet
done, because their was no man to till the ground.
     And God said, "Let us make man in our own image," and it was
so.  The Creator molded man from the dust of the earth in His own
image and breathed into him the breath of His own eternal life.
Man became a living soul.
     The man was placed in a special omphalos garden of the most
unique beauty of God's creation.  There He gave him instructions
concerning the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil.  the man, however, was alone.
     Presenting the magnificence of the complete animal kingdom
before the man, He sought for each of them names.  In them, man
confirmed no personal identity nor sensed any suggestion of human
companionship.  He became aware, therefore, of his own
incompleteness and desired human fulfillment.
     God caused a great sleep to fall upon the man and from him
took a rib which he used to form his likeness.
     The man was awakened and the Creator presented his creation
before the man.  Man saw God's love for him in her and he called
her woman for she was taken out of man.
     God blessed the man and the woman and commanded them to have
dominion over the earth and all living things He had made.  They,
too, were blessed by Him to reproduce in their own likeness.
     Thus ended the sixth day of God's creation.
     He rested from all His creative work and contemplated His
work on the seventh day.  He saw that all He had done was very
good.

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