IN THE BEGINNING - WHO?

IN THE BEGINNING

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

Just as there is no God other than in the minds of mankind, there is no “beginning” other than in the minds of mankind.

A good revelatory opening sentence to this book of religious chicanery might be, “In the beginning of mankind’s mental capacity, Man created God and Man claimed that God created the beginning and in that “beginning” He created what Man saw as the totality of existence, “the heavens and the earth.”

Now, believers and non-believers, scientists of all stripes and all fields of study and religionists of the world whose power resides in the obeisance of believers, all are searching for “The Beginning.” They are searching for some event in some moment of time – as time is defined by common agreement – that will makes sense of the creation of the universe scientifically and theologically.

It is a nonsensical search. The beginning of time and the beginning of the universe must occur simultaneously because of the mind of man and the limitations that religion and science place on the mind of man based on the meaning of words and language. The word, “beginning” will have a different meaning denotatively – and subsequently connotatively – at every endless step of the way to finding the beginning of the universe.

Perhaps a new word will come into existence that will define a non-beginning based on an eternal existence, an infinite existence, of the “beginning” of the universe as a “point in time that is infinite,” and therefore not a “point” in time. This new word cannot stray far from the existential meanings of words in existing languages.

My suggestion for this word or phrase, embedded in the first sentence of the new Book of Genesis, is; genesis (the origin or coming into being of something.)

The opening line of the bible and the opening line in scientific texts on how the universe was created would then read, “In the Genesis, man created God and man said that God created the Genesis of the universe. The bible and the scientific texts could then comfortably take their different paths to exploring the genesis of the universe.