After many years of study I am convinced that the "beginning" in Genesis 1:1 is not the beginning of everything, as has been assumed and taught traditionally. It is the beginning of specifically the two things it says it is the beginning of, THE heaven and THE earth. A close study of the bible will reveal that there are three different "heavens" so this verse is specific about the creation of one of them which was done at the same time that God created another place called the earth.
As far as I can tell the bible is a book that begins with the creation of both the heaven and the earth (not the heaven"s" and the earth). It concludes when those two places are brought to a conclution. In fact throughout the bible mosts of the time when one of those places are mentioned the other is also. In over 150 specific places they are talked about in relation to each other. I conclude that heaven where God lives is a similar type of place to the earth. Makes sense since we were created in the likeness of God.
What do you think?
As far as I can tell the bible is a book that begins with the creation of both the heaven and the earth (not the heaven"s" and the earth). It concludes when those two places are brought to a conclution. In fact throughout the bible mosts of the time when one of those places are mentioned the other is also. In over 150 specific places they are talked about in relation to each other. I conclude that heaven where God lives is a similar type of place to the earth. Makes sense since we were created in the likeness of God.
What do you think?
