Some extreme loyalist of the Ancient Traditional View of the Scripture spend their time trying to force their religious position to agree with the Scripture. The FACT is that the word heaven (Heb - shamayim) is used to indicate
air (literally speaking)
and sky as well as the heaven/firmament where Jesus is today, physically.
However, those extreme believers who rely on studying these ancient words
REFUSE to accept the fact that these words have more than one meaning. However, those who pray for more wisdom and understanding and have been Born Again Spiritually are the ones that can only possibly understand the actual intended meaning of the words and which definition the Holy Spirit used when He authored Genesis from within the men who penned them.
1Co 2:14
Strong's gives us the various usage of the words used in Scripture however, which usage of these words used is the view of mere mortal men. Some, who study these words, give more credence to man's views than God's views.
A good example is that the word heaven can be used to mean air, heaven/universe, or the sky.
Transliteration
shamayim
Pronunciation
shä·mah'·yim heaven (398x)
, air (21x),
astrologers (with H1895) (1x
שָׁמַיִם shâmayim, shaw-mah'-yim; dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה shâmeh; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):—
air, × astrologer, heaven(-s).
Beware those who try to force their extreme biased view into the account while refusing to acknowledge whether or not there’s another meaning of the usage “word” that clearly agrees with the full context of the text of the cited Scripture.
They do
NOT understand that Genesis agrees in
EVERY way with
EVERY other discovered Truth so they invent their own Spirit-free view. This view does
NOT agree with either Scripture, Science nor History so they claim there is one Truth for the Bible and another for scientists and historians.
This is
FALSE since God's Truth
MUST agree with
EVERY other discovered Truth or you have the
WRONG interpretation of Scripture since there is
ONLY One Truth and God's Truth
ALWAYS agrees with every other discovered Truth.
God Bless