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The Spirit of God MOVED on the Face of the Waters. Meaning?
The Spirit of God MOVED over the water immersed Earth. So starts the Genesis story. Specifically, what does the Biblical Hebrew word moved mean?
The Spirit of God moves over the waters as Genesis begins. In English, to move has various meanings like, move forward, move house, moved by emotion, and various other understandings. What exactly is the Biblical Hebrew meaning of the common word move in Genesis 1:2?
(Origin of Humankind, chapter 4.4)
This article is both a continuation and a transition of the creation of the first man, Adam, reported in Genesis 2:7. In this verse, Yahveh, the Potter, breathed into his nostrils an immaterial singularity, akin to the mind, that only humans possess the neshama. This Neshama is always associated with ruach, both of which are possessed by God and humans. This ruach animates all living beings. But God’s Spirit acts on a totally superior level with the human spirit.
Even though Genesis 2:7 does not mention God’s Spirit explicitly, it is inherent to the verse, being inseparable from the neshama and being the essential link between God and humans (Romans 8:14–16). Hence the need to discuss the Spirit of God; this, of course, has a capital S and is akin to the Holy Spirit.
Allow me to introduce this subject with a little historic build-up. When I started this project of writing leading to this commentary of Genesis, I knew what I had in mind, but I had no idea it was going to lead to what I’m about to explain. I started this blog in May 2014, but the notes, outlining, and writing of Inventory of the Universe, my first book, began in 2010; this was a couple of years before the 4th of July 2012. Why that date? Because that’s the date the Higgs Boson was discovered and witnessed for the first time by the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.
I realize you don’t see the relationship between the Higgs Boson fundamental quantum particle and my writing, but I assure you there is one. Here’s an article from June 2014 discussing the Higgs Boson. I don’t expect you to understand the scientific jargon; I don’t fully grasp it myself! But what I would like you to see is some…
