Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. Psalm 139:16 NASB Ordained– Does God know everything you will do before you are born, before you make a single choice? Does He know all men’s choices from eternity past? And…
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13 NASB Formed– Did you read this as a statement about your creation? Did you imagine a parallel with Genesis 1 and 2? When we read “formed,” we probably think the poet is enlisting imagery from the initial creation of human beings. We think…
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1 ESV Created/Formed– Understanding the text of an ancient Near-Eastern Semitic document requires a particular kind of imaginative listening. It’s not just vocabulary definitions,…
And YHWH Elohim formed Man out of dry, loose earth dirt Genesis 2:7a (my translation) Formed – “To bring desire into existence.” That’s yatsar. God desired partnership in the regulation and enhancement of His creation. That desire was manifested in the formation of Man. Because the desire to bring into existence is the essence of…
