Ancient Anglican

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.

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”) 

My translation of The Story of Creation.

Tonight, we will read the creation story together, discuss the text from a reader-response perspective, and look at its overall structure.

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.

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.

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.

The day of the Lord isn’t one of separating good and evil people but of separating the good and evil within a person.

In both the fire of the refiner and in the soap of the fuller, God is making all things new. Rev. 21:5.

See how Malachi looks forward towards the more perfect, faithful covenant of Christ Jesus.

When we read the Hebrew Scriptures, we should continuously look for Jesus Christ within them.

The outward appearance is identical, but the foundations are different. Sand won’t support the building, but rock will. The question that Jesus poses to us in the teaching is where is our foundation?