A creation story that puts a different spin on God.

Here's a creation story that puts a different spin on God and the way the creation of the earth happened. It is a simple story which involves only one word but because of an error in translation the entire understanding of creation and the way it was taught by Christian schools has left humanity blind to the real facts according to the new version.

The person who is at the center of the story is an Old Testament Scholar named Van Wolde. She is a professor and an expert in linguistics who has a mastery of reading Hebrew text. She points to the word "bara" to form her argument that this word translates to "to spatially separate" and not to "to create".

One word.

And from there she claims that God did not create the Earth but separated it from the heavens.

Genesis 1 to 11

The first lines of Genesis talk of the creation of the earth and run through the stories of adding species, adding Adam and Eve, ridding the world of sinners through the creation of the flood and having Noah and his family repopulate the earth. It goes on to the age of Nimrod and the destruction of the Babylonian empire and includes the story of the confusion of languages and the destruction of the tower of Babel.

Now these were all stories that were well researched by official clergy people many centuries ago who found themselves well versed in Hebrew scripts. They left translations of the original Hebrew books which are compiled in the big book of Christianity. The first such book is Genesis and the first story is Genesis 1-11.

The Interpreters of knowledge and wisdom

However powerful the church was at getting the Christian followers at respecting the translated interpretation of what is supposed to be a message of prophecy - prophecy being only valid if it is fulfilled to the letter - this said church lost it's hold on humanity many times and each time a new sect or religion propped up to replace the first or the next. And each one promised to make the book respectful again.

Yet there have been some who have completely disregarded Christianity or any other God based religion, preferring instead to stick with logic and the real stuff that makes firecrackers pop. Real Atheists are fundamental non believers. They are not agnostic, they do not doubt, they simply do not believe in the one creator or one who separated the heaven and the earth hypothesis.

Gnossis is knowledge of wisdom. Therefore an agnostic is one who goes against conventional knowledge of wisdom. Going against such knowledge of wisdom does not necessarily mean that the agnostic denies such wisdom. The agnostic sometimes simply denies the knowledge part but not the wisdom part. They are of a different opinion. Where fundamental Christian would have you believe the letter of their translation agnostics prefer to show you a different version.

"bara"

This is where Professor Van Wolde steps in with her translation of the word "bara" and she is looking for debate on her interpretation.

Now there are people who have less credentials who have been telling the same story has Professor Van Wolde for decades now yet they meet up with all types of flack from the scientific community. I think of the name Zecharia Sitchin who has proposed for decades now that Marduk was the point of division which the good old Professor is mentioning here.

It will be interesting to see how far Professor Van Wolde will get with her hypothesis on what she proposes is the real meaning of creation and how God really works.

Flavors of stories already told long before Van Wolde, the Christians, or Sitchin entered the scene

Her ideas seem more in tune with other thinkers who's versions of creation were turned into mythological fairytales. I'm thinking here of stories such as the Underworlds or Tartarus and of the war of lord Apollo against the python and of the story of Asclepius and his war against the almighty lord Zeus.

It's all very interesting stuff and makes me wonder exactly what is an overlord and what is a God.

This story was influenced by an article written by Richard Alleyne, a science correspondent at the Telegragh.uk website. The article is God is not Creator, claims academic.