"The Story of the Beginning" an Alternate Biblical History

By Richard Hayes

This book is about the story of the beginning as told in the book of Genesis and the book of Revelation as reinterpreted by the Editor. The story is about the impact of a comet around 10,500 BCE and the efforts of LORD God Elohiym and His 144,000 Angels to save all life on the Earth, the Garden of Eden, and the story of the children of Man and the children of God up to and including the story of Noah.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365848285

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"The Story of the Beginning" an Alternate Biblical History

The Story of the Beginning an Alternate Biblical History

2ND American Edition

By Richard Hayes

2018

Published by Richard Hayes VIA Lulu.com

COPYRIGHT © 2018 Richard Hayes

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ISBN: 978-1-365-84828-5

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Hayes, Richard

'The Story of the Beginning' an Alternate Biblical History / by Richard Hayes. 2nd American Edition.

1. Biblical History

2. New Redaction of the First Chapter of the Hebrew Book of the Beginning.

3. Impact of Eleven Pieces of a Comet - Destruction and Recovery of the Earth up to Noah's Flood.

4. Efforts to Protect the Earth from Impacts Now.

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Index

Credits for Figures

Introduction: Making Sense of the Logic of the Story of Creation.

A New Redaction of the First Two Lines of Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis with Commentary on Each Line Following in Chapter 1

Some of the Variations in Published Translation of the Hebrew Words Into English of the first two lines of Genesis 1

Variation in the Meaning of the Words in the First Two Lines of the Book of Genesis

An Alternate Redaction Could Be

Introduction to 'The Story of the Beginning'

'The Story of the Beginning'

Commentary on the 'Story of the Beginning'

Evidence for the Destruction of the Earth around 10,600 BCE, by a Comet

The Future That Is To Come

Final Commentary

End Note 1: Who were the Sons of God and the Daughters of men?

End Note 2: An Alternate Biblical History of the Location of the Garden of Eden and the Burial Place of Adam

References

About the Author

Credits for Figures

Figure 1. Image comes from three descriptions of the beginning:

From the 'Babylonian Story of Creation', written before 2300 BCE: …The fall of the celestial being that appears to correspond to Satan of the Bible. In his ambition, he raises his hand against the god of heaven. He is represented riding in a chariot through celestial space, surrounded by the storms, with the lightning playing before him, and wielding a thunderbolt as a weapon. This rebellion leads to a war in heaven;

From Revelation 4, written before 450 CE: …Out of the throne proceeded lightning and thunder: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, 6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. 7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. 8  …And they rest not day or night;

From Revelation 12:7-9: And there was war in heaven: Michael …fought against…the great red dragon Satan, which was cast out of heaven, into the Earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Image created by Richard Hayes - Credit to Hubble Space Telescope Institute, Wikimedia, and British Museum for use of their material. Images created from early sixteenth century woodcut modified to include image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which crashed into Jupiter. Image taken by Hubble Space Telescope, July 1993. The images of the lion, calf, man and eagle are modified from early sixteenth century woodcut of zodiac signs from Wikimedia. The image of Satan riding a winged chariot, making war on heaven with lightning bolt is from an Athenian vase showing Helios, god of the Sun, 5th BCE. British Museum. The image of lightning bolt, clouds and rainbow around the throne of heaven (Sun) are original art by Richard Hayes.

Figure 2. The North American landmass showing 300-mile diameter impact crater and debris fields, West coast of US. Google map image @ 1/13/2014

Figure 3. Crater as shown in Figure 2.  Google map image @ 5/10/2015

Figure 4. Center of impact crater showing very disrupted crust.  Google map image @ 5/10/2015

Figure 5. The North American land mass showing bathtub ring around the Appalachian Mountains in Alabama and Georgia.  Google map image @ 1/13/2014

Figure 6. Possible impact craters along East Coast and debris fields in Gulf of Mexico. Google map image @ 5/10/2015

Figure 7. Other possible impact craters and debris fields in Asia. Google map image @ 5/10/2015

Figure 8. Coal seam in Nova Scotia, illustration #280, James D. Dana's book 'A Textbook of Geology', 1888, 4th Ed. American Book Company, N. Y., printed by William Ivison, N. Y.

Figure 9. Simulation of Impact of 1.4 Km diameter Comet @ 5 seconds, Sandia corporation, news release: Real deep impacts, May 5 1998, David Crawford [e-mail]

Figure 10. Simulation of Impact of 1.4 Km diameter Comet@10 seconds, Sandia corporation, news release: Real deep impacts, May 5 1998, David Crawford [e-mail]

Figure 11 Bolides events 1994 – 2013, Linda Billings & NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office, November 14, 2014 – modified by Richard Hayes

Figure 12. The Author By Richard Hayes 2005

The Story of the Beginning an Alternate Biblical History

Figure 1

Introduction: Making Sense of the Logic of the Story of Creation.

From the Author:

For much of my life I have had questions reconciling the story of creation as told to us in the Book of 'Genesis' in the English language King James Bible and the history which was taught to us through the education system based on science. When I read the first chapters of the Book of 'Genesis', I found the stories to be lacking when I applied the scientific method to the events of creation as described in chapters 1 and 2. Why, would God need to make light and darkness? - Then make the objects that light comes from: the Sun and the stars. Why would God initially make the Earth void and imperfect? - Then begin to create. The events seem out of order.

I tried to work with the English language version of the Book of 'Genesis' to make sense of the logic of the order of creation, but it did not seem logical. But, with continued education, I began to understand that I needed to go to the source of the stories in order to understand the meaning of the original words as written in Hebrew as the English words did not ring true. But, not knowing what the original writer intended to say, makes it very difficult to translate the Hebrew words into English. There can be many possibilities as to the meaning of the Hebrew words. In order to translate the Hebrew words into English, I had to think about what the words could say, then form the bases for an alternate story of creation as told to us in chapter 1 of the Book of 'Genesis', then prove that the alternate words, indeed, ring true, i.e. match the known events and physical laws.

The resources used to translate the Biblical Hebrew words into English include:

1.     'The Hebrew – Greek Key Study Bible': with a dictionary of the words in the Hebrew Bible by James Strong, with an associated word number for each Hebrew, Chaldee, or Greek word defining multiple meanings of each word in the old and new testament.

2.     'The Interpreter's Bible', a 12-volume reference on the sources of, and meaning of each phrase of the King James Bible.

3.     'The Pentateuch and Haftorahs', a parallel modern Hebrew and English Book of the five Books of Moses and other Laws with commentary.

4.     'The Polyglot Bible', which displays the King James Version of the English words with each associated Strong's number along with the text of the Greek Septuagint, Hebrew Tanakh, and Latin Vulgate in parallel.

From these references and Internet sources, I learned that the name for the Book of 'Genesis' is from the Ancient Greek LXX (Γένεσις - Genesis), meaning "birth, origin"; where as the Hebrew name is  (בראשית - B'reishit) (Biblical: ראשית - Be're'shiyth), meaning "beginning. Structurally, the Book of 'Genesis' consists of the primeval history (chapters 1–11) and cycles of Patriarchal stories (chapters 12–50) - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (renamed, Israel), and concluding with Joseph. While some traditions contained in the Book of 'Genesis' are as old as the monarchy, its final shape and message come only from the Exilic and Persian periods (6th and 5th centuries BCE).1a From the late 19th century CE, there was a great deal of consensus among scholars around the documentary hypothesis", which speculates that the five Books of Moses were compiled into it's present form, ca. 450 BCE, by combining four originally independent sources, known as the Jahwist, or J (written about 1050 - 900 BCE),