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I think any question that contains "why does this need to be so" is fundamentally flawed. The truth is nothing needs to be how it is. God could choose do it anyway He wanted to, and He choose to do it this way.
Now, We can speculate as to why He wants it that way, but short of scriptural support it's just speculation.
That said, Yes i think the Bible ...
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Indeed, the Lord God created everything, as is well attested to by the Scriptures.
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. John 1:3 NASB
For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or ...
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In Genesis 7:11, we read:
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
The implication here is that water came from two directions - springs from the deep (i.e. underground water) and from above (the ...
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There is no reason to limit information about the creation week to Genesis, but...
1) There are a number of good reasons to limit information about the creation week to Scripture. For instance, philosophically, the word of God is truth, and all men are corrupt and limited, which makes the revealed word of God the only reliable source for truth.
2) There is ...
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