Genesis 1
Ian & Pam Dorion dorioni@ipa.net
Sun, 1 Mar 1998 10:49:19 -0600 (00888792559, 199803011651.KAA25117@siren.ipa.net)
> SJW
> I have decided to join the fracas. Here is my take on the first 6
> verses (the first day) of the creation story.
>
> Genesis (RSV)
> 1
> In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
>
> SJW
> That's plain enough, except we must now determine what was meant by
> heavens and what was meant by earth. If the Bible had been written in
> English, we would not be having this sticky problem.
>
> Genesis
> 2
> The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of
> the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.
>
> SJW
> Now, this one really gets me. The earth was without form and void yet
> the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. I am
> picturing this blob floating around in the universe with God's face
> floating in the blob--kind of like Superman II when the bad guys were
> shot into space enclosed in a glass panel.
>
> Genesis
> 3
> And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
>
> SJW
> Okay, this one is easy. God flipped the light switch to "on".
>
> Genesis
> 4
> And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from
> the darkness.
>
> SJW
> If God saw that the light was bad would he have kept light and
> darkness mixed together? I guess God was happy that he could finally
> see what in the heck was going on.
>
> Genesis
> 5
> God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there
> was evening and there was morning, one day.
>
> SJW
> A rose by another name................ You notice that God has now
> given the definition of one day...there was evening and there was
> morning.
>
> Genesis
> 6
> And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
> and let it separate the waters from the waters."
>
> SJW
> Now I am picturing this huge slab of earth (firmament) jutting out of
> the waters, creating a wall between the bodies of water. We still
> don't have a sphere called earth, just a blob of water and a wall.
> So Ian, how do you like my interpretation? Are we done yet?
IAN
Well Janie girl, I'm sort of with you. If they say the Bible is inerrant
then goddamnit it should be inerrant in English because that's the friggin
language we speak. Unfortunately I see too many mealy mouthed
pseuedoscholars on both sides of the issue going back to the Hebrew roots
and telling people what the words REALLY mean. Why the hell don't they
write a friggin Bible that says what it means?