Secrets of Gen 1.1

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SECRETS OF GENESIS 1:1
PROF. M. M. NINAN
The Word "Earth"
The Hebrew c eres (earth) occurs more than 2500 times in the Hebrew (and Aramaic) Old
Testament. It is generally rendered "ground," "earth," “clay” “mud” " "dust," "dirt," and "could also
mean "land," "nation," and "country" . Joine with heavens it could imply the whole of creation or the
entire Universe.
The genesis creation story nowhere refers to the creation of hell or netherworld. Nowhere in the
Bible there is any narrative of the special place for hell being created by God. Old Testament do
not refer to such a creation at all. Hence it must have developed later in history. The only
possibility is that man himself created hell. By selfish life man converted his abode into hell.
Hence God has to separate the evil ones from the righteous or those who can grow into righteous
ones. Thus at the time a judgment, Jesus separates the whole resurrected mankind into three
groups. His wife the Church who do not come before the judgment seat, the righteous and the
unrighteous. He takes his wife wife the Church with Him, the righteous goes back to inherit the
earth and the unrighteous to another world of separate existence.
Again there is no mention of what was the shape of the earth.
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