Reichenbach further states: "the account of creation (Gen 1:1-2:3) can properly be understood as the account of God establishing his kingdom ... The first The creation narrative is… an ordered series of acts by which God by royal decrees causes his territory to become.” Curiously, deviating from an eternal vision of Yahweh, Reichenbach's language points to God as something that is becoming something, as if he were making his way to his kingship. This, however, is not the portrait of Yahweh that Genesis 1 paints :2, which at first glance appears to be an anomaly in the creation story, shows the presence of unexpected chaos or disorder in the darkness of the pre-creation order of the world. Everything in the Genesis account, except this tehom, seems like progress , generation of substance and specificity, it is in the image of the divine wind, or spirit, that hovers over the waters, before anything is declared into existence, that Yahweh's kingship is most clearly seen. Gottlieb points out that God will, in the following verses, divide and separate and bring a recognizable balance and friendship. But it is crucial to underline that He is not overcoming the profound, He is speaking of a creative order from the very place of disorder. It has been proven that the place of emptiness has always been full. Yahweh no
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