Genesis 1:1-2
(In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.) In Genesis 1:1-2『 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 』 The people of the church say that God created all things in the beginning. We must understand the word "the heaven and the earth." Heaven means the kingdom of God, not the sky we see with our eyes. The earth is not the land we live in, but the world (material world) that is against the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is where God is, and the world is a material world where God is not separated from God's kingdom. The words from Genesis 1:1 are important, and we need to keep an eye on "the heavens (shameim), the land (erets), the creation (bara)". Regarding Heaven (Shameim), in the Old Testament, all "heavens" are called Shameim. The blue sky is also called Shameim, the outer...