The fifth word in the English version of the bible is the word “created”. If you do a deep dive into meaning of the word in the Hebrew, it gives a treasure trove about creation which I will discuss below.
The word created has many words associated with that can be joined together to form three sentences as follows: The first is to ‘signal creation‘. The second is to ‘miraculously dispatch‘. The third is a ‘token of what is to be shaped or molded‘
Without going into exhaustive detail (I will if enough people ask), it is God the Father that signaled for creation to begin. It is God the Son that miraculously dispatched the Holy Spirit. It is God the Holy Spirit who shaped the universe. Hence, we see that the first time the concept of the Trinity shows up is in the very first sentence of the bible.
Now, the final sentence is especially important. A token is a representation, a part, or skeleton. When we plug this third sentence into the words, In the beginning God created, we get the following: In the beginning, God (the Holy Spirit) made a token of that which is to be shaped.
This helps us to understand that when the Holy Spirit started the process of creation, neither the earth nor the heavens were made perfectly. It was simply an outline that was made. This should not be shocking to anyone as the bible itself says ‘the earth was without form and void’ (Genesis 1:2).
With this understanding, we no longer have to go with the thesis that the earth was without form and void (Genesis 1:2) only because the perfect earth God had previously made (Genesis 1:1) was destroyed (there is no evidence of this in the bible). We don’t have to believe that the earth was being re-made and that this is the 2nd iteration of the creation of man.
We can simply admit creation was a process. God speaking things into existence does not mean those things happen in a split second. Speaking things into existence simply means that the irreversible process was simply set into motion.
In reality, we know this in our hearts. If everything was instantaneous, then why did creation take 6 ‘days’?
Spoiler alert: The days here does not mean the 24-hour day. You will have to stay tuned for another blog for me to explain.
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