The Creation

Chapter IV-V: World was created as a plan, or model, before it was created physically.
Chapter V: Quotes "one of the ancients" as saying "that the Father and Creator was good; on which account he did not grudge the substance a share of his own excellent nature, since it had nothing good of itself, but was able to become everything." Philo further adds "for the substance was of itself destitute of arrangement, of quality, of animation, of distinctive character, and full of all disorder and confusion; and it received a change and transformation to what is opposite to this condition".
Standard account of the creation.
Moses's account of the Creation.
All things were created spiritually before they were created physically upon the Earth.
God creates Adam and Eve.
Abraham's account of the Creation.
"You ask the learned doctors why they say the world was made out of nothing, and they will answer, “Doesn’t the Bible say he created the world?” And they infer, from the word create, that it must have been made out of nothing. Now, the word create came from the word baurau, which does not mean to create out of nothing; it means to organize; the same as a man would organize materials and build a ship. Hence we infer that God had materials to organize the world out of chaos—chaotic matter, which is element, and in which dwells all the glory. Element had an existence from the time He had. The pure principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed; they may be organized and re-organized, but not destroyed. They had no beginning and can have no end."
Adam and Eve are created and placed in the Garden of Eden.
An interesting linguistic argument that the creation story is not about the creation of the Universe, but about the planning of a kind of terraforming of Earth.

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