1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
COMMENTARY: 1:1 In the beginning (Hebrew bereshit): Creation marks the absolute beginning of the temporal and material world. The traditional Jewish and Christian belief is that Genesis 1:1 declares that God created the original heaven and earth from nothing (Latin ex nihlo) and that verse 2 clarifies that when it came from the Creator's hand, the mass was "without form, and void," unformed and without life. The rest of the chapter then explains the process of creation in detail. There is no evidence in the Hebrew text for long ages of evolutionary development or a gap of time between verse 1 and verse 2. God (Hebrew Elohim). This form of the divine name occurs 2,570 times in the Old Testament. The plural ending im indicates a plural of majesty and takes a singular verb. Created (Hebrew, bara'): This verb is used exclusively with God as its subject. It refers to the instantaneous and miraculous act of God by which He brought the universe into existence. Thus, the Genesis account of Creation refutes atheism, pantheism, polytheism, and evolution.
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