Is there objective Truth?

[Arkilogue]

...the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew...She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb "bara"...does not mean "to create" but to "spatially separate".

Definitely a minority opinion. All the more unlikely since verse four uses a different word, root Beit-Dalet-Lamed, which means commonly means "separate", the same thing as "divide".

Also the Hebrew word used for God in Gen 1:1 is "Elohim" and that is plural.

Meaning what exactly? If you are suggesting polytheism then you do so only by ignoring the whole counsel of Scripture. The best interpretation of that word choice was that the author is referring to the Divine Council which would include not only YHVH but the various heavenly host mentioned elsewhere, such as cherubim, angels, and seraphim.

Is majority opinion an indication of truth?

Bara' from Strong's concordance: http://biblehub.com/hebrew/1254.htm

I. בָּרָא53 verb shape, create (compare Arabic probably loan-word, form, fashion by cutting, shape out, pare a reed for writing, a stick for an arrow, but also , create; Phoenician הברא CISi. 347 incisor, a trade involving cutting; Assyrian barû, make, create, COTGloss & Hpt KAT2Gloss 1 but dubious; Sabean ברא found, build, DHMZMG 1883, 413, synonym בנה; BaZA. 1888, 58, compare Assyrian banû, create, beget, with change of liquid; Aramaic בְּרָא, , create) —

And both are present in Gen 1:1. The pre-existing matter (Body of God) is shaped/formed into the heavens (stars) and earth (planets). The space between is created "ex nihilo", it is the relative "nothing" (space) created to have individual and separate "somethings" with borders (atoms, planets, stars, you, me, the universe)


An Infinite God is both One and All-ness. Are not all the individual colors present in unified white light? God is One that becomes a divided wholeness within creation in order to fully support it. Panenthism: God is both wholey one beyond creation and spread through it.

A literal/oral tradition retelling would read "In a beginning, created the God's of the heavens and the earth."

http://kehillatisrael.net/docs/dt/dt_bereshit.html