Wisdom demands that we re-imagine everything we think we know about God, including our relationship with God. Wisdom gleefully ignores human boundaries and upturns human expectations of how the presence of God appears and behaves. Wisdom also was meant to interact with the creation as both teacher and the presence of God’s joy in the creation. Instead, there was an entire tradition revolving around the stories and words of Wisdom, the feminine energy and presence of God whose role it was to delight God. Yet, the Hebrew Bible doesn’t leave the Genesis account as the only narrative of the creation. God had already allowed God’s presence, in the form of breath, to hover over the waters, expectantly awaiting further action. There was also a place that was termed “deep,” and there were waters, of some variety. God was busy in numerous other ways before this point, and the narrator of Genesis decided to leave that life in the dark.Īs Genesis 1:2-3 states, “the earth was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath hovering over the waters.” In other words, God quickly moved to create “earth” that, however much it was “waste,” existed in form enough to be worth mentioning. Genesis 1:1 is not the absolute beginning of creation it’s actually much farther along than we realize. When he marked out the foundations of the earth, 30then I was beside him, like a master worker So that the waters might not transgress his command, When he established the fountains of the deep, ![]() When he drew a circle on the face of the deep, When there were no springs abounding with water.Ģ6when he had not yet made earth and fields,Ģ7When he established the heavens, I was there, And does not understanding raise her voice?Īt the entrance of the portals she cries out:Ģ2The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,Īt the first, before the beginning of the earth.Ģ4When there were no depths I was brought forth,
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