Definitions of God would have to be established
Religions have established a definition. Their GOD is the one noted in Genesis 1:1 as “God”.
So let us use that word “God” too, as to what their God refers as part of this investigation.
This “God” is also associated with the other descriptions in Genesis Chapter One, so let us use those words too as part of the investigation.
Summary of terms to investigate:
1.) The religious “God” = the Hebrew word ‘God’ (Strong’s number 430) in Genesis 1:1.
2.) Here are extracted relevant keyword descriptions from Genesis Chapter One.
.2 "And the earth was {without form, and void; and darkness} was upon the face of {the deep}. And {the Spirit of God} moved upon the face {of the waters}"
.3 "and there was {light}"
.7 "made the {firmament}, and {divided the waters} which were under the firmament"
.8 "called the firmament {Heaven}"
.9-10 "let the {dry land appear}: and it was called Earth"
.24-27 "{fowls, beasts, cattle, man, creeping things, and woman}" put on the Earth (ie. dry land).
Hebrew word # 430 is the plural of H-word # 433 which meant ‘deity’: thus "God" is actually a plural word meaning 'gods in the ordinary sense' (ie. deities).
In the ‘religious sense’ it is perceived to be ‘The God’ - but we are looking at the original Hebrew meanings of the words and context and not what a later religious person deemed that word to mean.
btw. “Heaven” meant ‘sky’ and “earth” meant ‘dry land’.
Moses, who was an Egyptian priest, is attributed to writing this account. His first belief system was of ‘plural deities’ (ie. gods) such as the Ennhead of gods of Heliopolis.
So CONTEXT and original word MEANING show that the “God” in Genesis 1:1 was in fact about ‘deities’ {plural}.
Next is the Syntax of the original Hebrew sentence.
It read as “The beginning: created ‘God, heaven and earth’” and NOT ‘in the beginning God created the heaven and earth’. There is a big difference.
The English translation and rearranging of the verb has changed the objects to which it referred.
So originally Moses was reporting that ‘In the beginning: three things (deities, sky, dry land) were created’
You can now immediately see that there was originally no single ‘God’, and ‘he’ did not create the sky and land, but was part of the sequence of things ‘created’ in the beginning.
The rest of Genesis Chapter One (as highlighted by the {brackets} earlier) relates other things in the sequence that were also ‘created’ after the first three things.
Do any of you grasp what you are being told and have just read ?
