I was already familiar with this text when I read the King James version. Except this time I payed attention to other details that I wouldn't have noticed before. I think my way of seeing the bible has changed a lot since the last time I'd read it which was in 7th grade. This time, I tried to read it not as a Catholic reading her guidebook but like someone interpreting the text, religious affiliation irrelevant.
Genesis 1 was like an order of they way things happened, sort of stating the facts. Clearly stating that God is the creator and the almighty. I noticed that some lines often ended with "and God saw that it was good." As if God sought for his own approval and immediately admired his work. Something else that it might be is that it was all "good", until Adam and Eve ruined it all by eating fruit from the tree of Eden, that when God specifically asked them not to. So things were no longer good, perhaps now they are bad, or just not so good.
I look forward to reading the rest of the story with this different point of view and interpreting other things I might have not noticed before.
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