Unraveling The Word

John 8:31-32 GNB So Jesus said to those who believed in him, "If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples; 32 you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

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Monday, October 31, 2005

Interlinear Bible Project

Well I've been working on an interlinear Bible and I've gotten through the first three chapters so far. The first chapter was very revealing in that it helped explain what might have happened on the fourth day. On the first day we have God creating light, or rather a source of light is created, and therefore that might represent the sun. Then on the third day he creates plants, which obviously need sun to grow. But on the fourth day most Bibles imply that the sun is created again, along with the moon and all the stars. From the interlinear project it becomes clear that God did not actually create the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day but that he "Bestowed" them on that day as signs for seasons, months, days, and years relative to mankind's perspective on the Earth. Perhaps he adjusted them just so, as clocks. We should also note that the word day does not have to mean one twenty four hour period, It could just be a period of time, or it could be one day for God, that is God's day not man's twenty four hour day. Of course on the sixth day we see that everything God has made is very good. This is after God blesses both Adam and his wife and tells them to fill the earth and to subdue it. In Chapter two we see God zoom into his creation of Adam and his wife, which brings us back into the sixth day, and what is implied is that Adam was setup by God to fail when he is placed in the Garden of Eden. One possible way to translate Genesis 2:8 is that Adam was placed in the Garden in order to be molded, or rather disciplined through vexation. It is after Adam's sin that Adam calls his wife's name Eve which means lifegiver, because she is to become the mother of everyone alive. So although Adam did sin on the sixth day, everything God created was considered very good by the end of that day. Now one thing I have done in rendering Eloheem which is plural for god, but can also be singular for the Supreme God, is to create a word in our language that can be both plural and singular at the same time, I render God as Godkind, similar to Man as Mankind. One argument for these renderings is that Mankind was made in the image of Godkind as seen in Genesis 1:26 as a plural, that is Godkind said let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness. In Genesis 1:27 we see that Mankind was made male and female, in the day Godkind created them. We should also note that in Genesis 2 we find that Adam was alone but then Godkind took part of Adam's body and used it to make a woman as his counterpart. This would them point to the nature of the person being spoken to when Godkind said "let us" create mankind in our image. The interlinear Bible can be found at www.UnravelingTheWord.info