In the Beginning
The Treehouse: Conversations About God
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(Welcome, newcomers! Here are a few guidelines! Also, just to be clear, we won’t be going through the whole bible verse by verse, LOL/whew. But as with any good story, a lot of important stuff happens up front.)
GENESIS 1. The Hebrew word beresit1 is the first word of the Bible, meaning “in the beginning” (resit is beginning or start, and b stands for the preposition in). Next is bara, to shape, make, or create, followed by Elohim.2 God. So we have “In the beginning created God.”
(Sidebar: when you see the suffix “im,” in the Old Testament, that pluralizes the word. Like, a seraph is a class of angel, and seraphim is a bunch of seraphs. So, right away we see “El” (God) is plural. Definitely file that away.)