The Story of Creation – Week 5(b) – Genesis 1:6-25
Genesis teaches that God does not simply bring about Creation and steps back, but remains intimately involved with his Creation.
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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).
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”)
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The Story of Creation – A More Literal Reading
My translation of The Story of Creation.
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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.
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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.
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