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The Story of Creation – Week 5(a) – Genesis 1:6-25
Days 1-6. Grasping and glimpsing the Divine in Creation through an analogy of being (analogia entis).
The Story of Creation – Week 4(b) – Genesis 1:3-5
Within this reading there are three words to focus upon: Said, Light, and Called. What is the power of speech, what do we mean by light, and what does it mean to name something?
The Story of Creation – Week 4(a) – Genesis 1:3-5
“God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.” A short discussion on Theodicy and Evil as Negation.
The Story of Creation – Week 3(b) – Genesis 1:1b-2
“The earth was without form and void/ and darkness was upon the face of the deep/ and the Ruach Elohim moved over the face of the waters.” Let your mind’s eye see what the passage is saying about who God is, who we are, and how we relate.
The Story of Creation – Week 3(a) – Genesis 1:1b-2
The merism of “heaven and earth” express the totality of the cosmic phenomena at creation.
The Story of Creation – Week 2(b) – Genesis 1:1a
As we begin to spiritually unveil the deeper meaning of Scripture, our goal is to see who God is, who we are we, and the relationship between the two. There is no “right” answer, there is only growing closer to the Ultimate Divine Reality.
The Story of Creation – Week 2(a) – Genesis 1:1a
This week we will be looking at the first three words of the Hebrew Scriptures: Bereshit bara Elohim (“In the beginning God created” or literally “In the beginning created God”)
The Story of Creation – A More Literal Reading
My translation of The Story of Creation.
The Story of Creation – Week 1(b) – Gen. 1:1-2:4
Tonight, we will read the creation story together, discuss the text from a reader-response perspective, and look at its overall structure.
The Story of Creation – Week 1(a) – Gen. 1:1-2:4
The purpose of Genesis isn’t to tell us how, but why. Its purpose is to tell who God is, who we are, and our place in God’s creation. This will be the object of our discussions.
The Story of Creation – Introduction – Genesis 1
Within my spiritual walk, the story of creation provides an endless resource of unfathomable depth to contemplate the great mysteries and questions of our faith. My goal during Epiphany is to introduce you to and bring you along on my contemplative journey through Genesis 1.
Chapter 19 – On Interpreting the mind of the sacred writer, Christians should not talk nonsense to unbelievers.
It is disgraceful for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we must prevent such an embarrassing situation, where people show vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn.