(January 2, 2017 at 7:33 pm)LostLocke Wrote: Just to play devil's advocate, if I remember from my Christian days, Genesis refers to the creation of the "physical" universe. The "spiritual" realm, IE Heaven and all the various spirit creatures that reside in it, already existed. So you could say he was talking to the angels I suppose.
He was talking to the other gods. Most of genesis refers to beliefs first codified when the people that were to become the jews believed in the Canaanite pantheon of which yhwh was a minor war god.
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