"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
The hebrew word for God is elohim, which is plural. It should therefore be translated as, "In the beginning, the gods created the heaven and the earth."
And if cosmology is correct, in the beginning, the gods caused the big bang to happen. He, I mean they, didn't create the earth immediately. The earth should have come about some time later.
Further, the word created can also mean cut*.
So perhaps it's more accurate to translate,"In the beginning, the gods separated the heaven from the earth."
*Notes:
Jos 17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Jos 17:18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
1 comments:
There are a couple of flaws in your interpretation of scripture. First of all, you are right in saying that the God in genesis 1:1 is plural in original Hebrew, but this gives more account to the existence of the trinity than the fact that there were many gods that created the world. If you look at Genesis 1:26, it says "Let us create man in our image" this further backs up the fact that it is speaking about the trinity of God and not gods.
Secondly, you are flawed in your assessment that the word created means specifically "cut down" in the original Hebrew. Yes, that is one of the meanings, but it also means "choose" in Ezekiel 21:19, also "dispatch" in Ezekiel 23:47, "made" in Psalm 89:47, "make yourself fat" (this is a weird one) in 1 Samuel 2:29, "cut down" in Josh 17:15;18, "make" in Numbers 16:30, then there are 39 other verses that point towards the word created in Genesis 1:1 to mean "created". I personally would favour the one with more definitions.
So ultimately, the most accurate interpretation for Genesis 1:1 is... In the beginning, God (being God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit) created the heavens (the skies, what you can see above) and the earth (the body under the skies).
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