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Interesting Post: http://doctor.claudemariottini.com/2009/10/devastating-news-for-traditional.html.  It cites a possible discovery that “In the beginning, God separated the heavens and the earth.”

That’s right.  Separated.  Not created.

Well, if you think about it, God did separate the heavens from the earth.  Scientifically, if you accept that the heavens existed before the earth formed (but would be hidden until Day 4), then you can see that God actually set the earth apart for His purposes.  He really did separate the heavens from the earth!  And He really created them!  Both have always been true, so does it matter which fact the verse is recording?  Perhaps it’s recording both perspectives!

Both?

Well, read my post from a few years ago …

The story of Cain and Abel is a familiar one.  Cain tills the earth and Abel tends sheep.  They both prepare offerings to God.  God favors Abel’s sacrifice of his best lamb over Cain’s offering of vegetables.  Cain kills Abel, and God punishes Cain.  He then marks Cain so that no one will kill him for what he did.

The main Creation challenge for Christians in this story is generally lodged toward the end of it, when Cain takes a wife.  Genesis 4:17…
 17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 
Who did he marry?  His sister?  And what’s …

Interesting thought, huh?  It kind of makes you think of a woman, the first woman in the world, capable of conceiving a baby without the need for a man… a new trait for humanity, which Natural Selection would select either for against as a desiralbe trait for mankind.  Except Jesus never had kids by which to pass it on… and we’re unaware of Mary’s other children or desendents repeating a virgin birth.  Well, that isn’t what I was tallking about anyway.

What I noticed about Jesus’ conception is the balance between humanity and divinity.  On the one hand, Jesus has a physical ancestry going all the back to Adam and beyond.  On the other hand, God took one of Mary’s eggs …