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[SLIDE 1] Introduction
Gratitude for Doug Campbell and Mike.
Time with family and friends.
And BBQ.
Today
Picking back up with Vintage Faith - creation.
My love for Nature
Always outside
Lay in the grass, experiencing it
Playing in the dirt with Matchbox cars
Camping and fishing
Trusted Christ in the out of doors
Today: Triathlon, hiking, camping - an ongoing celebration of that experience.
To be engaged with nature - creation is for me a spiritual discipline where I commune with Jesus who made it.
[SLIDE 2] The Passage
Written over 4k years ago.
Illiterate people.
Alphabet was being perfected and writing was still new.
No books, no paper.
[SLIDE 3] Questions From Our Perspective
Western, STEM and Scientific discovery
Scientific discovery
Did God create it in 7 - 24 hour days or in periods of time?
“Day” and “Generations (2:4)”
Ancient Israel understood creation as an ongoing process and not a definitive moment in time.
Isn’t this a made up story?
Didn’t use myth because a myth in the OT is a story that describes supernatural events.
Not a bad thing.
Are the creation story and science compatible?
If so, how?
The beginnings of earth and life as reported by Genesis correspond very closely with current scientific knowledge.
Too many other questions that we bring to this passage to get into here that are fun to explore.
Some of us - studied and clear about what we believe.
What If...
Others, still wondering.
Moses wasn’t interested in answering any of them?
People with different points of view are very passionate about this subject matter.
Respect for each other’s point of view is what’s important
Why The Creation Story (Hymn)
[SLIDE 4] What If...
Moses wasn’t interested in answering any of the questions we’re asking of it?
What if thers’s more?
Responding to Pagan Creation Stories
[SLIDE 5] is a hymn of confession
They are also confessions of faith for a particular people, Israel
Sun Worship
Written in response to other religion's creation myths.
They are also confessions of faith for a particular people, Israel
the author’s concern is to display before us the visible world as God’s handiwork,
[SLIDE 6] Time of Moses:
Polytheism - worship of many gods
Astrology - stars and planets have divine or god-like influences on us
Nihilism - a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless; denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
Rob
Writer's main concern - address the theological and philosophical errors of those other religions and show readers the visible world as God's handiwork.
It’s merely the raising of the curtain of a drama that unfolds throughout the bible.
The Message
They are also confessions of faith for a particular people, Israel
The Message
It is no accident that God is the subject of the first sentence of the Bible,.
[SLIDE 7] God Did it - But What Did He Do?
Conquered Chaos
V. 1 - In the beginning - (NRSV)when God began to create - without form, void, chaos.
Creation was a conquering of chaos.
Most creation accounts from the ancient world began with a primeval chaos.
In Moses’ time - The God who could conquer chaos was understood as the true and living God.
at its core is about how the God of Israel brought the chaos of into an ordered universe.
Here’s How: He spoke
Until he spoke, nothing existed
He gave it structure
Here’s How: Creatively, With Structure and Process
Spirit - brooded over a formless and void earth like a bird (the Message)
Spoke everything into existence - breathed life
The ordering is more about showing God’s intentionality
Day, night, waters, heaven, land, vegetation, fruit that reproduced - living things bear fruit
Sky - dome or vault
Sun, moon, living creatures.
Be fruitful and multiply first to the animals.
Separation from day and night - in Hebrew thought marks the seasons, days, years.
NIV - sacred times.
Creativity, structure and process go together
The creative ordering, structure and process is about God teaching his people a process of becoming than to reveal truths of physical science.
IT’S GOOD.
Here’s How: He Upholds and Sustains
Upholds natural order
Sustains us in the natural order for our good
Creation is upheld for the good of humanity
What God Did
Chaos will always try to make a come back - to guard ourselves:
Most creation accounts from the ancient world began with a primeval chaos.
Creation was a conquering of chaos.
The God who could conquer chaos was understood as the true and living God.
is a magnificent account of how the God of Israel brought the chaos of into an ordered universe.
God is creative
Listen to the voice of the Lord - hear him speak; make time, contempletive prayer and scripture.
Allow the creativity of the Spirit to flow through us; use our giftedness; imagine and create ministry
Spoke everything into existence - breathed life
Embrace structure and process.
They are partners of creativity, not enemies.
They are necessary to be and become disciples.
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