re: Can you suggest a source
The book that I used as a reference was the King James version.
I did reference the King James version to the Hebrew version trough a friend of mine that understands that language. I also compared the writings to a Finnish Bible that was translated in 1861.
Every one of these Bibles tells the same story as far as the beginning (Genesis) is concerned..
The first words are so simple and straight forward that it is difficult to misunderstand the meaning of the words.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The problem arises when the sentence as a whole is interpreted.
A primitive person might understand that sentence as meaning when the creator made the sky and the ground that we are standing on.
A more advanced person might understand it as: The sky and the planet Earth was created
More advanced God is the creator that caused the universe with all the stars and planets like Earth to come into being.
Still more advanced: Beginning of what? What does the word God signify? What does the word heaven mean when spelled with a small h. Why is the word "earth" not capitalized ?
Further advanced: Ahh yes the beginning, before that there was nothing. The word "God" must signify some unimaginable power if it can "create" something out of nothing. Could the old word "heaven" have the same meaning as the modern word "space"? Could the word "earth" have the same meaning as the modern word "mass"?
Advancement continues: Suppose that; mass = m, then what does space = , or energy? OK then, science tells us that mass is associated with force (f=ma) and kinetic energy, let's define mass as kinetic force and represent it with the letter "k", k and m have the same value. Kinetic energy is associated with movement of mass in space, space allows mass to move, therefore space contains the potential for kinetic energy. Let's consider that there is a force associated with the emptiness of space, in other words something "forces" mass into an "empty" space.
Space then is a potential force and we can represent it with the letter "u". The quantity of u can be calculated by taking the speed of light and multiplying it with the amount of k that is represented as a square area. The maximum amount of kinetic energy this quantity of mass can have can be calculated by taking the value of u dividing that by the value of k and then multiplying the result by the speed of light.
I really do not want to steer anyone towards a wrong conclusion, if this happens to be one, but at this state of my "advancement" I understand this part of Genesis to mean that: In the beginning of the infinite universe there was an unimaginable power or God that caused space, mass, and energy to come into existence, and that everything in the universe is composed of this "trinity."