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I am not a theologian; I have no theological training and no reputation as a Bible scholar. But based on the excellent scholarship of Adam Clarke (b. 1762- d. 1832), who spent forty years compiling “Clarke’s Commentary” published in eight volumes (1810-1826), I believe the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) contains a poorly rendered translation of the opening verse of Genesis 1. As you shall see, this led to much unnecessary conflict with science that began with Galileo’s controversy with the Catholic Church in the 1600s
After carefully studying the ancient Hebrew text, Adam Clark translated Genesis 1, verse 1, differently than the KJV translators. He said it was more correctly rendered, “God, in the beginning, created the substance of the heavens and the substance of the earth.”
Furthermore, Adam Clark said the Hebrew word “bara,” which we translate as “created,” does not mean made or formed out of something else. Instead, it should be interpreted in this sense: “Caused existence where previously to this moment there was no being.” Thus, Clark would render verse 1 of Genesis 1 more accurately expressed this way, – God, in the beginning, brought into existence out of nothing the substance of the heavens and the substance of the earth.
The change seems minor, but the implications are anything but. If Clark’s translation is accurate, we now know the substance of everything in the universe (all matter and energy) was created “In the beginning.” The traditional view had long been that God created the Earth on Day 1, and then on Day 4 created the Sun and the Moon, the rest of our Solar System, and the stars in heaven. This long held traditional view is likely responsible for the old belief that the earth was the center of the universe and that the Sun revolved around the earth. This model of our Solar System has proven to be wrong, and quite likely, the translation on which it was based is also inaccurate.
In this book we will find a truer interpretation of Genesis 1, and in the process, we will uncover the supernatural prophecy of “the sign of the Lord who makes you holy (Exodus 31: 13); the sign that authenticates that the historical Jesus (Yeshua) of Nazareth was indeed the true Son of God.
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