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COPYRIGHT 1994 American Jewish Congress
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD IS MADE TANtalizingly simple in the opening chapter of Genesis.
When one considers the true complexity of it all, as so many branches of science are now revealing with every passing day in countless laboratories throughout the developed countries, with research into astrophysics, the physical and chemical sciences, the amazing complexity of the genetic DNA structure of man--when one considers what we have already discovered, and yet what remains to be fathomed, we are forced to conclude that the opening chapter of Genesis was never intended to be scientifically instructive, or even descriptive, of any reality that goes beyond its opening verse: Bereshit bara' 'Elohim--"In the beginning it was God Who created the heavens and the earth."
Indeed every single word in that verse defies definition.
Bereshit--"In the beginning." How can we speak of, let alone define, "the beginning" in relation to God? If He is God, and, as such, has existed from eternity, then how can we...
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