{"id":22895,"date":"2026-08-18T18:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22895"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:12:13","slug":"the-bible-doesnt-start-the-way-you-think-inaugural-episode-of-misquoting-moses-with-joel-baden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22895","title":{"rendered":"The Bible Doesn&#8217;t Start the Way You Think | Inaugural Episode of &#8220;Misquoting Moses&#8221; with Joel Baden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A more accurate translation of the Old Testament is not that &#8216;in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth&#8217;, but that &#8216;when he began to create the heavens and the earth&#8217;&#8230;meaning, this is just when he began to create them, and&#8230;it is not the beginning of time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Bible Doesn&amp;apos;t Start the Way You Think | Inaugural Episode of &quot;Misquoting Moses&quot; with Joel Baden\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pbZaVV2hdw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A more accurate translation of the Old Testament is not that &#8216;in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth&#8217;, but that &#8216;when he began to create the heavens and the earth&#8217;&#8230;meaning, this is just when he began to create them, and&#8230;it is not the beginning of time. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pbZaVV2hdw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[606,60,609,770,1585,57],"class_list":["post-22895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bible","tag-christianity","tag-god","tag-history","tag-jews","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22896,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895\/revisions\/22896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}