2007-06-05 07:14:03 · 8 answers · asked by Jas.M 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That would probably be Genesis Ch 1 vs 1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
But if you are thinking chronologically...
Then John 1 vs 1
In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
Even though its written after Gen 1..it speaks of the Word.. who was from the Beginning...i.e.. even before the Heavens and the earth were created:)
Just a thought:)
Good question
2007-06-05 07:21:20 · answer #1 · answered by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Actaully Job was the first book of the bible ever written.
Genesis and the creation story was written later for 2 reasons.
1) The religion needed a creation story,
2) It is an example of our relationship with God, what is is to be a man (Adam was from the wilderness and came into the garden) and a woman (Eve created in the Garden)
2007-06-05 14:23:32 · answer #2 · answered by John R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably, "My father was a wandering Aramean" from Deuteronomy, but the basis of Job is an Edomite story from about the time of the Exodus. The Torah was not codified until it was done by the scribe Ezra after the Babylonian exile. Moses never saw, much less wrote Genesis.
2007-06-05 14:20:52 · answer #3 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"In the beginning.......," Genesis. In the texts of the ancient "bibles" of the Egyptians thousands of years OLDER, it is, translated, "Before the world began there was a watery darkness called Nun. An Ocean that contained the seed of all things inside a spirit called Atum-Re. A muddy hill rose from the waters and with it the creator God. Having created himself, this God then coughed from his mouth two minor Gods call Shu and Tefnut. Shu parted the earth, Keb, from the sky, Nut, who then gave birth to five children and their names were Isis, Horus, Seth, Osiris, and Nephthys. From the Ocean sprang forth the river Nile..............."
2007-06-05 14:29:28 · answer #4 · answered by Theban 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the suppressed version of Genesis it says "And lo, before the trilobites there were myriad other creatures of the deep, and before that random organics"
That is of course a liberal translation as the ancient terms have no direct counterparts in English. But it does mention time before time that was without end.
2007-06-05 14:21:00 · answer #5 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 1:1 - 1:2.
2007-06-05 14:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Genesis Chapter one.
2007-06-05 14:16:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wouldn't that be the OLD testament?
2007-06-05 14:17:08 · answer #8 · answered by Vintage Glamour 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋