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In the Beginning*

Data Over Dogma

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The Beginning of God's Creation

The opening word of Genesis 1 seems to be saying in the beginning of God creating the heavens and the earth, which is what we would call a temporal clause. In Hebrew, you put two words together and then you pulled the accent off of the first word and moved it to the second. And that was just the indication that this is at X of Y relationship. So when God began this creation, the earth was empty and desolate. And the spirit of God or this divine spirit moved over the depths or over the waters.

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