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- - - - - -Tuesday, July 06, 2004
This Bible Has 22 Minutes
There is a tradition within some Amish and Old Order Mennonite churches that pastors will occasionally preach a sermon starting at Genesis, and go right through until they are at Revelation. I thought I would try my hand at this, and while it was far more difficult than I imagined, here is a small part of it.
Genesis 1:1 starts with "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." In the beginning? The beginning of what? Is it the beginning of human existence? It cant be that, humans dont show up until the sixth day. Is it the beginning of the world? Well, the universe and everything in it, are all part of this creation process. It's just the beginning. There seems to be something missing in the next half of the sentence as well. God created the heavens and the earth? Who is God? Well, God is God!
In a scientific world, we want our sentences to be more complete, to not leave things out, but Genesis 1:1 is not a scientific statement, it is a social one. Here, we are being introduced to God.
If you had never read the Bible before, if you didn't know anything about God or Christianity, after reading this first sentence, you would. God is introduced to us in the Bible, as the Creator of all things.
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