Sunday, October 11, 2009
God is not the Creator, claims academic
Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew.
She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the holy book (or books) never intended to suggest that God created the world -- and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.
IMO: Depending on van Wolde's status, this could be of deep concern to Christians, Muslims and Jews. The rest of us may not need to worry, but in those faiths Genesis would be hard to ingore in their theologies, however derivative, as otherwise they could be even more easily taken as hypocrites. I must say that I would prefer to consider the inclusion of the Gospel of Mary into the Bible and/or the possibility of yet another woman pope. (It would be hard to vouch for or against the previous existence of even one woman pope and I would qualify the possibility in a more detailed blog, some time - it should make some difference, either way, and history may still play peculiar tricks on feelings towards the idea).
She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the holy book (or books) never intended to suggest that God created the world -- and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.
IMO: Depending on van Wolde's status, this could be of deep concern to Christians, Muslims and Jews. The rest of us may not need to worry, but in those faiths Genesis would be hard to ingore in their theologies, however derivative, as otherwise they could be even more easily taken as hypocrites. I must say that I would prefer to consider the inclusion of the Gospel of Mary into the Bible and/or the possibility of yet another woman pope. (It would be hard to vouch for or against the previous existence of even one woman pope and I would qualify the possibility in a more detailed blog, some time - it should make some difference, either way, and history may still play peculiar tricks on feelings towards the idea).
# posted by uv : 7:26 PM
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