Genesis 1 and 2

Creation Creation of All Things The name Genesis, from the Greek translation of the O.T. known as the Septuagint (Seventy) and so symbolized LXX, means birth, origin, beginning.  Genesis in the Hebrew Bible is called Bereshith, which literally means, “in beginning.”  It is a word without an article, neither definite nor indefinite.  This beginning, then, is not a beginning among other beginnings, but is the absolute beginning.  It is not, certainly, the beginning of God, Who Himself is...