What is the Truth about Creation (Part One)

Over the years I studied the Biblical Creation Account, I began to be amazed at how precise each word was that is used. Let’s start with the first verse.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

The phrase “in the beginning” can mean several things: “the first thing to know”, “the thing of primary importance”, or “what happened first”. I think in this case, all of the interpretations are correct.

The Hebrew word for God here is “Elohim” which means God Almighty. It sometimes refers to a plural (we, you-plural, or they), or to a “Royal” person. This is important to note because of the change in the word for God at the start of Genesis 2. Elohim is sometimes called “the Creator God” (see Dennis Prager’s book Genesis).

“Created” has long been understood to mean “to form from nothing” or “to make something completely new”. As we will see, this is in contrast to “made”, which has the connotation of forming something with existing materials. “Ex Nihilo” is the Latin phrase associated with “created” – from nothing.

This is the first of many instances that the Bible has an explanation that Science struggles with. Newton’s Law of the Conservation of Matter and Energy states that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed. The Big Bang Theory seems to point to both happening, which would contravene that Law. But Genesis stated (again, over three thousand years ago) that is exactly what God did.