Whoops: Turns Out The Bible Says God Didn’t Make The World

A respected biblical scholar has claimed that the bible doesn’t claim that god made the world, and the idea that he did came from a bad translation.

Professor Ellen van Wolde claims “in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” is not a true translation of the original Hebrew, and instead claims the line should read “”in the beginning God separated the Heaven and the Earth.”

According to the Telegraph, the issue arises in the translation of the Hebrew verb “bara”, which is used in the first sentence of the book of Genesis, does not mean “to create” but to “spatially separate”. The difference means that according to the Bible, the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.

There’s going to be some Christians with exploding heads over this one.

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