wb4wp-wordpress-plugin-bluehost-production domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home1/curtandt/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6170wb4wp-wordpress-plugin-bluehost-production domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home1/curtandt/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6170What do you believe about the origins of the universe? Has it always been? Did it create itself? Is there an impersonal force or god who created it? Did a personal God create everything our of nothing? These are some interesting questions to ponder. Please share your thoughts on this post.
I definitely believe in Creation by Elohim, and Hashem Elohim as told in the 2 Creation stories in Beresheit. Now, I say Beresheit because I feel that unless you look at these stories in Hebrew you lose too much information. For example, the first 4 words in the Torah are Beresheit bara Elohim et, In the beginning, Elohim created, and the et is a word that points to the direct object of what is being created. The et itself is not translated into anything, so why is it needed? Why would G0d create et when the object would be easily determined by context. If you understand that there are no coincidences in Torah, and that such elements are there for a reason meaning that we are meant to figure out why, then you can already unpack quite a lot just in the first 4 words.
Let’s start with Beresheit, In the beginning. In the beginning is the beginning of time, and for time to exist, material must exist, for time can only exists where there is material. This is clearly the beginning of both time and material which means that before, did not exist. There was no material and therefore, no time.
Bara, created. The universe was created. It did not create itself. Now, a great deal of Creation was created by the universe, and things within it as you read further in the story, but even that Creation was ordered by the Creator, and it met the requirements he desired, or it would have been eliminated, and replaced.
Elohim. Elohim is the name of the Creator in Creation story 1. Hashem Elohim is the name of the Creator in Creation story 2. Elohim is a judge. That is why he always judges Creation at the end of each day. He is all powerful, and creates using his power. He also creates in linear time because this would make the most sense to us as we also exist in linear time.
Et. If we look at the word et, which is not translated, we could assume that it has no meaning to the story, and merely points to the direct object of what is being created, but let’s assume that there is more to it than that. Let’s look at how it is spelled. Et is spelled aleph tov. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alephbeit, or alphabet using the Greek. Tov is the last letter of the alephbeit. So we could read Beresheit bara Elohim et as in the beginning, Elohim create the aleph through the tov, or the Hebrew alephbeit. He created the Hebrew language and then spoke Creation into existence using the letters of the alephbeit. This is a familiar concept found in the phrase abracadabra. Abara cadabara translates to I will create while I speak.
This is not the only concept that we can derive from the et. If we again switch to Greek, the aleph and tov becomes the alpha, and the omega. For Christians, this is a much more familiar concept. This gives us in the beginning, Elohim create the beginning and the end. So not only did Elohim create time, but he created all time, beginning and end. This is how He knows everything that will happen. He is outside of time and space, and already knows how all of this turns out.
Surely a book that holds this much mystery in just the first 4 words has to be from G0d. He provides us just enough information to figure out what is there, and that often leads to a whole new set of questions needing answers. If you need any proof that there G0d exists, study the Hebrew language.
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