Is Genesis 1:1 A Mistranslation? @_magnify

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   @Afarawaydog

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   I'm about ready to unsubscribe because of these awful looking AI thumbnails

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   @VeVe_AR_Guy

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   Robert Alter.. Thats a good name for someone that alters written words

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   @fadew55

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   I grew up Christian and always struggled to make myself believe. I did mental gymnastics trying to make it make sense every day till eventually I realized… everyone that is a Christian is doing those.
   It doesn't actually work… Just like hes talking about the punctuation of Hebrew translation… man ur just trying to make it make sense when it doesn't.
   At that point its so lost in the weeds u have to take a step back and be like wait… that was god's plan? To come up with something so convoluted that people are dedicating their lives figuring out a sentence?

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   @unhealthytruthseeker

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   There are theories that the original Adam was a hermaphrodite and that the creation of Even was really the separation of the hermaphroditic being into a male and female half. This is by no means unique to the bible. Greek philosophy also had the idea that humans were originally hermaphrodites before the gods split them up.

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   @biscuitlee1184

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   These dividuals are on to something 48:25

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   @bafranksbro88

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   The stuff about genesis when viewed in a way that tries to understand how ancient people meant these things and how it kind of describes the big bang reminds me of something else I saw recently about the oldest rocks on earth. The oldest rocks are in Canada as a smaller part of the Canadian Shield and they were found after scientific research and testing. The interesting part is the local indigenous peoples have long had stories telling about how those same rocks are the oldest ones that go back generations upon generations of indigenous peoples. Ancient peoples were far more ingenious than we tend to give them credit for.

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   @bafranksbro88

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   1:27:00 is this where all the 6, 7 stuff started?

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   @kayden8093

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   when it comes to a "thunderous" noise, at my high school along with or instead of claping we would often stomp our feet as loud as possible. when enough people do it it really does sound like rolling thunder

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   @Dad......

   January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

   It's like saying "wishy washy" or "mish mashed". So, in the beginning the earth was wishy washy and mish mashed.

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    @Dad......

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    0:20 babies clap when impressed or entertained, and even chimps clap. This is a great question. Why do we clap?

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    @No2Digitalid

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Only from the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD will you then, fully perceive and understand!

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    @michaelcoles6203

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    15:50 Aren’t all words made up?

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    @shouldhavebeenacobbler

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Et marks definite direct objects, not direct objects in general.

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    @timwalls-n5m

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Mistakes in this show.
    1. In the King James, Genesis 1:1, it’s the heaven not heavens. In the second account, Genesis 2:4 KJV, the plural is used, as you repeated many times. There is only one “heaven” created. It is the air spade between the Earth’s surface waters and the clouds or waters above the Earth.
    2. In the first account of creation, Genesis 1:1-31, mankind’s first task is found in Genesis 1:28 it is to be fruitful and multiply. And it is given to both man and woman, as they were created at the same time. In the second account of creation, Genesis 2:4-25, Adam’s first task isn’t naming the birds and other animals. It is to dress and keep the garden. In Genesis 2:15 Adam is created first while Eve is created last of all life forms. The purpose of Adam naming the animals is clearly to see if there is a suitable companion among the living creatures for Adam, Genesis 2:20. No suitable companion is found therefore woman is formed from Adam’s rib or side, as you put it.
    3. Ideas pop into existence. In others words they are something from nothing. Ideas are a things. They can be patented and sold.

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    @michaelbrowder1759

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    The idea that one doesn't have money doesn't at ALL mean that one has no concept of debt.

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    @jazzigreycat

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    1:26:35 A Czech person told me that "ahoy" is a popular greeting in their landlocked country. They also said there was no Czech equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary, because Czech people knew all the Czech words, so there was no need.

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    @Microdosingyourvalidation

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    I think it has something to do with making music making music together and celebrating and then how it kind of transformed through the years

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    @gravitheist5431

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Creation is a construct of the mind , and something doesn't just pop into existence and everything that makes up something already existed, so why do so many humans want to believe it was popped into existence . Human cognition tends to make sense of the world through experience, "beginning" and "end," and we have a uniqueness, even when reality is we are made of preexisting matter, and end up being absorbed, "to dust".

    Consciousness, whether a sense making observer in a feedback loop, or an autonomous free will, searches for cause and effect in an uncaused infinite universe. The natural cause and effect presupposition is a consequence of being human and self aware.
    I believe the universe is infinite and cause and effect is an illusion of the human experience of itself. Our human experience of uniqueness, sense of identity and agency are part of an evolutionary survival mechanism, not necessarily an accurate reflection of ultimate reality.

    The human experience also gives rise to the necessary concepts of Good and Evil and consequently their ultimate definitions, I believe the Bible is a purely human existential philosophical journey/guide.
    In Genesis everything is Good. Gen 1:25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
    Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals. Mankind was instructed by God what they must do, but Adam is alone Why is God many, in likeness and image ? Every human has many concepts of what Good is
    Lord of Goods appears and the story is retold.

    Experientially humanity's need to coexist created a need to affirm or define the ultimate good and constructed an eternal transcendent good to perpetuate beyond our mortality or personal experience, and essentially deified the ultimate Good, it was reinforced through a narrative, until it was written down. To me reading the Bible is an obvious direction for a mode of being in the world, but to some it reads as a way to claim immortality by association and we all know how strong the ego is to overcome.

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    @samuelgray7869

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    On the masculine feminine nouns, there was a study done on this, comparing German native speakers and Spanish native speakers on their interpretation on the word ‘bridge’, die Brücke in German (feminine) and el puente in Spanish (masculine)

    When asked to describe how they thought of bridges, Germans were more likely to use adjectives such as beautiful and elegant, whereas Spanish speakers adjectives like strong and sturdy, implying that the gender of a noun can influence the perception of the noun. 54:51

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    @apollo8352

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    What after 2000 years of homophobia they are going to admit the original plan was Adam and Steve…..

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    @novaseaker

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    It seems to me that the whole "made up word" part is trying to convey that there was chaos. The earth was "helter skelter", "gobbleygook", etc. It was just nonsense, until God introduced order to it.

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    @Gabriel-gm1rk

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Spade? Ace of Spades?

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    @nadavyehuda9474

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    I think it's common knowledge, but almost all English bible names are incorrectly translated. (ex.) Joshua is Yehoshoa, Jobe is Eyov and more.

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    @cloudbloom

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Amazing conversation. So important to dig into these particularities, thanks fellas

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    @leeg5481

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Yes.

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    @PianoMan347

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    9:27 A poet wrote most (or I think all) the lyrics for Cream. So it’s not always the case that it doesn’t work

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    @ChaseValentine-r3f

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    1:18:07 I know Alex was rolling around in his head with this one

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    @jonathanbince6410

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Watching Alex slowly discover how the universe works is a true joy

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    @dccopi

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    My question regarding Mereological nihilism and the left/right distinction of the microphone…perhaps the labels provided to us by conscious experience are “arbitrary” in a sense but how does that negate the literal distinction of different atoms on one side of the microphone vs the other side? The different properties of different arrangements of chemicals still exist whether or not there is mind to label them.

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    @armandoc.3150

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Man you guys really dont understand the meaning in words, only the meaning of words.

    Only understanding the definition and origin but not the purpose. It hurts.

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    @neil-et2ox

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Is there mileage in having 'side' taken sort of metaphorically, like to mean 'aspect' ie the feminine aspect of man and look at this in a jungian kinda way so the story is then talking about Adam's female aspect or side of his nature??

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    @joeheffern

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    “How much of the English language is saturated with financial terms” please go off with this incredibly based line of thought sir. Goes into David Graebers arguments that most many world religions start cropping up as societies had to figure out how to deal with money and debt and private property🤔

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    @CherylHorne-e3g

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    What do think of Adam’s rib being his DNA? If you look at the shape of of the double helix it looks like a rib. Also, women have XX and men have XY, the Y being an incomplete X…..

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    @kurtwalliswallis

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    One Hebrew expert has suggested that adding "Aleph" BEFORE the 1st word "Beresheet" in Torah changes the meaning entirely to – (In the Beginning…) "The Father of All Beginnings created The Elohim, Heavens and Earth….."" So, Elohim are humanoid aliens from Planet Nibiru and are called as Anunnakki…

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    @scentbubble2112

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Mereological Nihilism? Or the 'two truths' in Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy from nearly 2,000 years ago / Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism? Form is emptiness, emptiness is form, baby!

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    @reaganwitten2272

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    I swear he sounds exactly like Tom Segura

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    @timhall5382

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    SKIP
    Totally wastes your time hit next and save as much as you can

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    @ethannolan1202

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    mid 17th century: from Latin devastat- ‘laid waste’, from the verb devastare, from de- ‘thoroughly’ + vastare ‘lay waste’. I am decidedly not an etymology word but i do believe this is saying there is no "vestating" as an opposite of "devastating"

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    @TomasWhittaker-w2q

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Thats what its called? Mirrorestic nihilism? Genuinely thought i was the only one that thought like that.

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    @fagusformigordusfagordumfl1798

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    I loved the energy Alex brought to this!

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    @Dorcelius

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Damn! 1:23:30 my mind just got blown. Perhaps I’m reaching but to whom is the debt paid?

    My mind is blown because we ask this same question of countries… consider the US, it prints the world’s money and yet it is so in debt it can never repay it…

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    @peterjurgens5968

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Cant wait for the next one and a half episode on Genesis 1:2! 😅

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    @CraterGama

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Submit to him .. the one . The great .

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    @gustavocontreras10

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Devastating. To be devastated. To devastate. Me me dumdum brain says it must be to take away the vastness of something or someone. To lay waste to the essence of what they hold in vast measure. To devastate and take something down to nothing.

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    @incoref

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Thank you!

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    @zahc2069

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    0:55 sharper pitch than screaming probably more uniform in wave form (relative to human screams) so less distortion or clutter in the sound. As I was writing this they googled it

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    @TorvusVae

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    I am so out of the loop, I have no idea who this guy is

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    @JustWatchin_DD

    January 12, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    22:15 yep! this is called aspect, and instead of past/present/future its more like complete or incomplete. theres still a bunch of languages that do this, chinese, vietnamese, navajo, etc.

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