Posts Tagged ‘Bible’

…didn’t create the Heavens and the Earth?

This grew to be my problem with Christianity, when I was still Christian. You have an ancient text written in several dead languages, with no clear authorship and no way to cleanly translate it. Anyone who watches Japanese Anime will tell you, the translation almost always leaves something out of the original Japanese. How can we truly know what the Bible says?

Prof Van Wolde, 54, who will present a thesis on the subject at Radboud University in The Netherlands where she studies, said she had re-analysed the original Hebrew text and placed it in the context of the Bible as a whole, and in the context of other creation stories from ancient Mesopotamia.

She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb “bara”, which is used in the first sentence of the book of Genesis, does not mean “to create” but to “spatially separate”.

The first sentence should now read “in the beginning God separated the Heaven and the Earth”.

God is not the Creator, claims academic