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In his book Genesis Unbound, a book that teaches a form of Framework Hypothesis, John Sailhammer wants us to believe the first Hebrew word in the Holy Bible, raysheeth28 refers to an indefinite period of time longer than a day. He claims Genesis 1:1 tells of a beginning that was eons of time during which God created the heavens and the earth. Sailhammer then claims Genesis 1:2 and following tell of how God planted the Garden in Eden in six twenty-four-hour days.29 But as we have seen above, Genesis 1:1 is part of the narrative of the first day. Now let us use some sanctified common sense: How many pages are in the beginning of a 100-page book? Ten? Thirty? Ninety? Two hundred? So the beginning certainly cannot be longer than the first day, however long that day may have been. That answers question two: the beginning is the first part of the first day.
28This is actually the main word only; in the text, it is preceded by an attached Hebrew letter, beth, meaning in the.
29John Sailhammer, Genesis Unbound (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1996), ISBN: 0-88070-868-9, 38-44.
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