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God the Only Cause and Creator
God said, Let there be light: and there was light. . . . And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Vegetation in this account (from simple grass to seed-bearing plants to fruit trees) is shown to be fully mature at its inception. A scholar explains that these forms “were not the product of the powers of nature, . . . but a work of divine omnipotence, by which the trees came into existence before their seed, and their fruit was produced in full development, without expanding gradually under the influence of sunshine and rain.”
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Resources cited in this issue
RR: Keil, Carl Friedrich, and Franz Delitzsch. Commentary on the Old Testament. Vol. 1, Pentateuch. Translated by James Martin. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1864–88. Reprint, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.
Cit. 6: Barclay, William. The Daily Study Bible: The Gospel of John. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew, 1955. Revised and updated by Saint Andrew, 2001. Reprinted as The New Daily Study Bible: The Gospel of John. Vol. 1. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2001–04.
Cit. 17: Murphy, Roland Edmund, and Elizabeth Huwiler. New International Biblical Commentary: New Testament Series. Vol. 10, Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999.
Cit. 18: Keener, Craig S., John H. Walton, eds. NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2016.
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