Subj : Re: Extent of the Torah
To   : Chuck Pierson
From : Joshua Lee
Date : Tue Oct 24 2000 01:10 pm

-=> Chuck Pierson wrote to Joshua Lee <=-

 CP> Why not?  I said similar, not exactly the same.  God made the universe,
 CP> I made a packaging machine.  We both made something.

 JL> Did you make something out of nothing though? It's qualitatively
 JL> different...

 CP> True, but yet both are still similar actions, which was the original
 CP> point I was trying to make, I think.

In Hebrew, the word bara (and derivatives), used in the beginning of
Genesis, is only used to indicate creating something from nothing
(yesh m'ayin). The word for creating something from something is a
different word, yetzira; "formation." God of course does both, but
man only does the second sort of creation.

                       JBL

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