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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Subject: Two Creation Stories? |
Bible Note: There are many books writen to try to show that God does not exist,and that because he does not exist He did not inspire Moses to write Genesis. What you fail to mention is that from verse 4 on that it is the LORD God (Jehovah Elohim) that is mentioned. It was God (impersonal) that created the world. Now Moses introduces the fact that God is not just impersonal but He is Jehovah Elohim (personal) in his history of the world and God's relationship with man. I think J.N. Darby expreses it better that I can... (please excuse any spelling mistakes) "In chapter ii we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion as such. Hence the LORD God is introduced: not merely God as Creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. NOTE -- that is Jehovah Elohim, a personal name as well as Godhead. It was important too that Israel should know that their God was the original creator of all. Still it is only used when special ways and connection with man is introduced. THE DISTICTION OF JEHOVISTIC AND ELHISTIC DOCUMENTS IS THE MEREST CHILD'S PLAY, AND FLOWS FROM ENTIRE IGNORANCE OF THE WAYS AND MIND OF GOD. There is always a reason for on or the other. Elohim is simply God; Jehovah is the acting governing person in time, though self-existing, who abides ever the same and having to do with others, who is, and was, and is to come." J.N.D. Synopsis of the Book of Genesis. p.12 |