Liberals love playing loosey goosey with the facts

Professor Ellen van Wolde, described as "a respected Old Testament scholar and author" by the London Telegraph, claims the first sentence of Genesis – "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" – is not a true translation of Hebrew.

"She claims the writers of the bible never said that God created the world – and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals,"
How this biblical oversight eluded scholars for the past 3,000 years was not explained.

Van Wolde said she had analyzed the original Hebrew text and placed it in the context of the Bible as a whole, and of other creation stories from ancient Mesopotamia.

She concluded the Hebrew verb "bara," which is used in the first sentence of the book of Genesis, does not mean "to create" but to "spatially separate."
So, therefore, the first sentence of the Book of Genesis should actually read "In the beginning God separated the Heaven and the Earth."

Van Wolde boasts of having once worked with Italian novelist Umberto Eco, best known for his books "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucalt's Pendulum," which has been described as a "thinking person's 'Da Vinci Code.'"

If those aren't qualifications to revise the Bible, I don't know what is.
She admits that technically "bara" does mean "create" but added: "Something was wrong with the verb.

But there is only problem with the study… Van Wolde focuses on the Genesis creation statement but conveniently fails an attempt to discredit the other 15 direct references to Gods hand in the creation of the world, such as…

Genesis 2:4: in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens;
Psalm 89:12: The north and the south thou hast created them.
Isaiah 42:5: Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth,
Isaiah 45:8: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

Or Ephesians 3:9:

Colossians 1:16:

And Revelation, Romans, and First Peter

The biblical references to God’s creation are numerous and proven. But then again liberal academia has never had a problem letting the facts get in the way while seeking to advanced their secular agenda.