***Jesus was invoking Genesis to teach about divorce not some scientific statement that the earth was 6,000 years old.***
Nevertheless, Jesus said male and female were created “
from the beginning of the creation”. You can’t get around that.
Nevertheless, Jesus said male and female were created “
from the beginning of the creation”. You can’t get around that.
Prepositions are notoriously tricky in translation, and when moving between not-terribly-closely-related language groups, verbs tend to become terribly problematic as well. “Creation” is also a fairly technical noun, and the meaning of a technical noun in one language rarely precisely overlies the meaning in a different language. The Greek word translated “beginning” also has a number of quite distinct meanings—it could be equally translated “ordering” in this context.
Picking apart a statement made in Hebrew/Aramaic and preserved in Greek on the basis of an English translation to gain light on something other than what is being directly addressed is not a very good idea. I’d elaborate more, but I have to go teach Greek (of the New Testament sort).