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NASB | Genesis 1:21 God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:21 God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it. |
Subject: Thank you Lionheart but where is it? |
Bible Note: Lionheart, I am thinking that the writers of the Greek Septuagint, which is the Greek version of the Hebrew Torah, from which we get our 5 books of the law in the Old Testament(as opposed to the Jews who do not use the Septuagint, but the Hebrew Torah) decided to translate the words make and likeness as, let Us make, and, in Our likeness, to fit their theology that Elohim is a triune God. But my God man, that is eisegesis isn't it? We are supposed to do exegesis, pulling out of the text the real meaning, not putting into the text our impression of what it should mean. The Hebrew Alphabet didn't change from then to now, it's still the same, the translation of the Ancient Torah says the exact same thing that the Strong's says it says and the Jews never changed the language of it to fit modern times, they speak other languages now, rather than Hebrew but kept the language of their holy books intact in writing and speech from then to now. My wonderment is if the Septuagint which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Torah, which was written by first century Christians added Us and Our to jive with their beleifs in order to make the Bible conform to those beliefs... I get what you are saying about symbology and metaphors, but Genesis as narrative is historical literature in nature and does not employ the devices of symbolism like Daniel for instance and metaphors like in the Parables for instance (although some would disagree because they don't believe what it says happened word for word and say it is metaphorical myth with symbolic language to get people to understand that God created the world somehow or other, but not that way, they don't like talking serpents and trees that kill, or death from sin). I will keep trying to discover why this ambiguity exists... |