In languages that use several terms for God, ’elohim should be translated by a general term and not by a name or title, unless, of course, the language has no choice. Some languages have a term or descriptive expression meaning “Creator” or “Creator God” that may be used in the creation story. The word rendered created, which means “to bring into existence, to cause something to be,” is used only with God as subject and thus suggests that to create is the activity of God alone. Created is replaced