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Genesis 1: God fashions the heavens and the earth out of primordial chaos, not the creatio ex nihilo people often read into it. Genesis 2:4 et seq: The earth i
by wl 3y ago
Genesis 1: God fashions the heavens and the earth out of primordial chaos, not the creatio ex nihilo people often read into it.
Genesis 2:4 et seq: The earth is already there in rough form. God finishes it and populates it with life.
A very powerful being, yes, but nothing requires omnipotence.
Job 38 seems to reflect more of an omnipotent God. But it's also much later than the Genesis creation accounts, by which time Hebrew culture had likely been exposed to Greek philosophical ideas about what properties God should have to be worthy of the title.