I am still not getting your definitions. There was no earth in verse 2. The Spirit was "holding" the spot where water and matter would become the earth. The "Let there be light" moment would have obliterated a physical Earth.
The Earth in Gen 1:2 is under water, it was without form, it wasn't dry land...yet. The Earth doesn't appear until the 3rd day, in the beginning refers to when Heaven and Earth came to exist, they didn't exist yet in Gen 1:2. That primordial world in Gen 1:2 from which Earth emerged on the 3rd day is called "tehom" in the Bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehom
The light was the collision between Tehom and God and it resulted in a world spinning closer to the sun where night and day alternate with a new sky to be ruled over by various lights.
In some myths Heaven and Earth were one before being cleaved in two by God and Heaven was left behind to mark the spot of the battle. This is why Heaven is the name God gave the firmament, a hammered out bracelet dividing the waters above from the waters below.
The asteroid belt straddles the snow line of the early solar system, the water below became our Seas and the water above is still there. The water content of asteroids varies based on their location above and below the snow line. Thats where our water came from... Researchers are trying to import our water, they need to import the planet.
Evening came first that day and every day. The light was instantaneous and then faded into evening. The first day starts with evening which last from about 6pm to 6am in this context with morning following evening. The first day did not start out in light, nor was there light for another 60 hours. The 2nd day was from evening to the next evening. The 3rd day was from evening to the next evening. The last 12 hours was dark until the last half of the 4th day when the sun was shining.
The order of night and day was established in Gen 1:2-3, the darkness preceded both God and the light. Tehom was in darkness and covered by water... So Gen 1:2 could be interpreted to mean the 1st day started with the darkness (evening) before the light (day). But the light was God's first creative act, God did not create the darkness, the waters or the submerged Earth.
Because it separated the waters from the waters. Some Jewish Rabbi's thought there was at least 500 miles between the surface of the earth and a body of water that looked like a dome around the earth.
But the atmosphere is not firm and the Earth didn't exist on the 2nd day. The primordial world in Gen 1:2 had an atmosphere, the world was covered by water. What changed was the appearance of Earth on the 3rd followed by its sky on the 4th.
The text does not define the definitions of heaven and earth. How they are used in context does that. The words "heaven" and "earth" had several different meanings. There was no word for the concept of universe.
The heavens became the observable sky but Heaven was unseen. The text defines it as something firm dividing or separating the waters above from what would become our seas.
It's required, because otherwise I'm going to assume you just dreamed this up after watching a Velikovsky video.
Sitchin... it was a book. You haven't posted any links.
You made the claim. It's on you to provide the evidence.
I read the article you linked to (the ONLY article you've linked to in this entire thread).
I've provided evidence and several links in multiple threads on the subject
It mentions Vesta and Earth having water with the same properties, but at no time did the article say that Earth formed in the asteroid belt.
The article was linked to show our water came from the asteroid belt
I'll go along with water/ice-bearing comets or asteroids striking both Earth and Vesta, but that in no way proves that they were anywhere close to each other, or that Earth formed in the asteroid belt.
Comets have varied water signatures and have been ruled out, but I dont think Vesta and Earth got their water from asteroids. Asteroids (and Vesta) got their water from the proto-Earth - the proto-Earth is the source of the water and the asteroids.
So if you're going to cite that article to prove your claim, quote the relevant text. Or find some other article from a reputable source.
The article says our water came from asteroids beyond the snow line. You could start with the caption to the picture:
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE Earth is a wet planet that formed in a dry part of the solar system. How our planets water arrived may be a story of big, bullying planets and ice-filled asteroids.
But thats just the tip of the iceberg:
Saals findings suggest two things: Earth and the moon have a common source of water and the water was already here when the moon formed.
If our water was here during the lunar cataclysm, the solar wind would have blown the water vapor out to the asteroid belt where it condensed into ice. Not to mention a ring of debris...but thats at the asteroid belt, no evidence it happened here.
Now, the problem theorists are having is they want to import Earths water from the asteroid belt but the older our oceans become the less time there is to import the water.
Researchers thought the water might have arrived during the late heavy bombardment ~4 bya when Jupiter was flinging asteroids around. Then they found out our water was older than 4 bya so they decided Jupiter "tack"ed inward before that (without replacing it as the mechanism for the late heavy bombardment) sending water laden asteroids our way.
I dont know why they think Jupiter formed before planets closer to the sun where material was more plentiful, I can understand a planet forming at the snow line very quickly but Jupiter's twice as far away and Saturn twice that. Anyway, our water predates our rock. Jupiter roaming around asteroids didn't deliver it.
Why is Mars so small? There should have been plenty of raw material available 4.6 billion years ago to turn Mars into a planet closer in size to Venus or Earth. But Mars is just about half Earths diameter and about one-tenth its mass. One possible explanation is that something prematurely robbed the nascent Red Planet of its building blocks.
Their culprit? Jupiter again... I think Venus formed before Mars because its closer to the sun and Earth formed before Mars because it formed at the snow line. Both deprived Mars of material, no need to have Jupiter involved.
Well, I'm relieved that you'll at least concede that.
I never said otherwise
