(At/In the) beginning created/filled God[Elohim] the heavens/skies and the earth.
Like most Hebrew translations there is, as you can see a different order and several alternatives. Who'd be a translator!? My point however is the simplest and first word of all. Beginning.
For millennia this was taken as insignificant compared to the next two words 'created' and 'God'. However, it turns out to be as important a word as any in the Scriptures. Why? Because in ongoing scientific discovery it has finally become inevitable that the planet and indeed the universe had a beginning. Previously this could only be assumed (or revealed!).
The significance of this can be seen in observation of Professor Stephen Hawking,
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.
John Maddox, former editor of Nature magazine bewailed the idea of a beginning because it gave creationists 'ample justification for their beliefs.'
But you do not need to be a supposedly clever person to know that if there once was nothing and now there is something, then the secret isn't a selection process but an intervention.
And the question then becomes, whodunnit?
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