S5 E6 God, Light, Darkness, Chaos, Forms, and Voidness Explained (week 3 part 2)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
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🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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We have fantastic extra content for you that you will love on our Patreon Website https://www.patreon.com/c/EnlightenEdgeEDU . Please join us there so that you can participate in our in-depth lessons. This week we will address questions many people have about the creation and show how it all focuses on God and His Son.
In this weeks episode Kerry examines in detail the first part of the text of Genesis 1. He particularly explores the symbolism behind the words used for creation and shows how the order of creation makes sense, fixes the problems on non-creation and chaos, and accomplishes God's purposes. He will help you make sense of terms and symbols that may have eluded you before.
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| 0:00.0 | We're so glad that you've joined us for this second episode where we are wanting to share with you some material that I think will help you understand the creation better. |
| 0:21.9 | This is something that we just really want to do this year is to help everyone get more |
| 0:27.1 | out of the Old Testament, and I think understanding the stages of creation, and what we can |
| 0:33.1 | learn from the creation will help with that, and so thanks for joining us. |
| 0:36.8 | To understand the stages of creation and the creation will help with that. And so thanks for joining us. To understand the stages of |
| 0:39.0 | creation and the creation story in general in Genesis, we have to understand that this is |
| 0:44.6 | creation being told from a certain point of view, the view of the ancient Israelites. And so |
| 0:51.0 | they will share it with symbols that they are used to. If we were telling the |
| 0:55.9 | same story today, we might use different symbols. And I'll kind of point out some of those along the way. |
| 1:01.5 | But they come from a cultural background of using symbols to teach and of specific symbols. They're |
| 1:08.6 | not going to use traffic lights as a symbol. They're going to use the things they're familiar with. |
| 1:14.0 | And they have a common nature with the cultures around them in using these symbols |
| 1:20.3 | and in the general notion of the creation. |
| 1:23.5 | So they're not trying to teach us all the specifics of creation. |
| 1:28.4 | God could give us a geophysical or astronomical creation story. |
| 1:32.8 | This is the creation story that he's chosen to give us using these symbols, and there's |
| 1:37.4 | something we should learn from it. |
| 1:39.4 | So we need to start out by thinking of the difference between order and chaos from an ancient |
| 1:45.2 | perspective from all ancient cultures in this area whether it be the Egyptians the |
| 1:52.3 | Babylonians the Canaanites the Israelites the Hittites anyone you want to look at they |
| 1:57.9 | don't believe in creation coming ex nihNehalo or out of nothing. |
| 2:02.9 | They believe that there was material out there. |
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