101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

yth #17:
The heavens and the earth had children.
The Myth: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they
were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And
every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it
grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not
a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the
whole face of the ground. (Gen. 2:4–7)
The Reality: In the second Creation story, the heavens and the earth are deities, a
wife and husband capable of having children.
The second creation story begins at Genesis 2:4 with the phrase,“These are the
generations of the heavens and of the earth.” The first five words are a textual formula
used on ten occasions in Genesis, and only once outside of Genesis (Ruth 4:18). In all
instances outside of Genesis 2:4, the formula serves to introduce stories about particular
families, as, for example, “These are the generations of Isaac,” or, “These are the
generations of Jacob.” In each such instance, what follows are stories about the parents
and their children and the events in their lives. There is no logical reason to think that
any different interpretation attaches to Genesis 2:4.
The opening phrase, therefore, means that what follows are stories about the family
of the heavens and the earth and their children. In other words, the second Creation
story is a throwback to an earlier polytheistic account of Creation in which the
heavens and earth are cosmic beings, deities, capable of having children.
This conclusion disturbs theologians because it contradicts the idea that the Bible
is a monotheistic treatise. Consequently, they reinterpret the passage to reflect their
own religious point of view. They argue that what follows are only stories that take
place after the Creation. Not only does this misrepresent the plain and simple meaning,
it runs into another roadblock. The stories don’t take place after Creation, but during
Creation, on the second day to be precise.
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