In what language did God say "Let there be light!"?
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Egao No Genki
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I don't know that there is any record that states what language God speaks. The earliest reference to a specific language in the Bible is in Genesis 2:19-20: "19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. "20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." So, Adam made up his own language as he went along, apparently independent any influence from God. So, we really don't know what His "native" language is. Then again, I don't know that it really matters what His language is. He understands all of our languages. That's what is really important, isn't it?
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In the language of dogma and the language of faith and belief , which needs no proof
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Either in no language, or whatever language He created for his own personal use. As God is outside of this universe (if, indeed, He exists), He wouldn't have been bound by any man-created language.
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"Language" implies speech. Speech implies air vibrating in specific patterns.* If the traditional Christian position is correct, there was no air to vibrate before God created it, but we don't have any words which could accurately express how God communicates or "speaks" or wills things into existance, so the metaphor of "said" is about as good as our language can do. I believe the phrase "God said" in Genesis is better understood as anthropomorphic simplification. My understanding of God leads me to believe God "said" "let there be light" in nothing we would recognize as speech (verbal, sign, written or otherwise). See Isaiah 55:9 where God says "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." [*Aside... we have written language and sign language and even body language, but the concepts behind the ideas "language" and "said" come from and generally imply sounds in the air... things that can be literally 'spoken.']
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When the Lord wrote Genesis, using Moses as his prophet, He said it in Hebrew. But if you are asking what language the Lord used when He spoke light into existence, there is (to my knowledge) no revelation made on that subject. Axiom 1: The God of the Bible exists. Axiom 2: The Bible is the Word of God.
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In Genesis, the uses of phrases such as "God said" and "God saw", don't make much sense if considered literally. Why would "God saw" ever be used of an omniscient entity? However they make total sense if you think about them in a more abstract sense. So "God said to Adam..." may mean that Adam perceived the truth of the thing from God, perhaps by means of conscience, perhaps by revelation. Whereas "God said, let there be..." means the divine dictate itself, and the divine purpose.
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