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corbe:
Lost in Translation: Genesis 1 is NOT About the Creation of the World! ~ James Tabor

May 23, 2024


The very first verse of the Bible--Genesis 1:1--which millions can quote by heart--is MIStranslated in most all major versions and all languages--with very few exceptions. The reasons are simple--Marketing and Commercialism. Who would buy a Bible translation that does not begin with "In the Beginning, God Created the Heavens and the Earth"?  In this short exposition I dhow how the original Hebrew has a completely different meaning. It is not a philosophical or scientific statement--but rather a description of the ordering of the chaotic, empty, water covered, wind sweep, wasteland that was Planet Earth, WHEN the "Force of All Forces" (Elohim) begin to bring order out of the random chaos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYDQXbn4NhA

Smokin Joe:
"heavens and the earth" is something I always took as creating the whole Universe, not just our planet.

corbe:
  Interesting point to make @Smokin Joe
  I rarely broadened my horizons to think of it in that Philosophical construct.

roamer_1:
What gets me is gap theory.... millllllions of years between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2

Talk about your exegesis.... :whistle:

corbe:
   'exegesis' I should have known that word, but I had to look it up @roamer_1   Sure, they're as many interpretations of the 'O'rignal Hebraic Old Testament Bible as they're secret items on a Taco Bell menu.

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