Genesis One – Summary
Genesis chapter 1 is, in my humble opinion, the chapter in the Bible that contains the most information about the Christian worldview of any biblical chapter. When asked what their favorite book of the Bible is I suspect most Christians will answer one of the gospels or, if they are feeling adventurous, perhaps an epistle. […]
The New Testament in Genesis 1
Summary article: Genesis One – Summary In the beginning The beginning of both the (Greek) old testament, and the prologue to John’s gospel. Not just a way of affirming the divinity of the Son of God, John is saying that with the coming of Christ we have another Genesis 1 moment. God is doing the […]
The Temple in Genesis 1
Summary article: Genesis One – Summary The reasons to believe that Genesis 1 is an account of God making the cosmos to be his temple are many, and better and more deeply explained elsewhere. I hope this article will briefly summarize the arguments and ideas, and point onwards to where one might dive deeper into […]
The Divine Image in Genesis 1
Summary article: Genesis One – Summary History of the image Speculation about the divine image has been something of a favorite past-time for the church since the early days. Following Augustine in his De Genesi ad Literam, it has generally been construed as being the intellectual or rational part of man (Book 3, chapter 20).1 […]
Creation in Genesis 1
Summary article: Genesis One – Summary Ordering the cosmos The ordering of creation. The individual days are individually interesting, but not nearly as much as when taken all together, which will be done in the following article on the Temple and Imago Dei. However there are some things noteworthy. Throughout everything a massive “demythologization” can […]
Precreation in Genesis 1
Summary article: Genesis One – Summary Our worldview Ontology – the nature of existence or being. You and I both swim in a cultural river where it is painfully obvious to everyone that “to exist” is identical to having material properties discoverable by the senses. In other words, it’s an empirical, scientific ontology. Though it […]
Genre of Genesis 1
Summary article: Genesis One – Summary Genre of Genesis 1. If the subject of ‘Genre’ is touchy in pop-Christian circles, then this is multiplied when talking about the first chapter of the first book of the first part of the Bible. But what is genre? Genre Genre is simply a category we use to loosely […]
Authorship of Genesis 1
Summary article: Genesis One – Summary Background The authorship of Genesis has been the subject of excited inquiry since the 17th century.1 It would be wrong of me to pretend to make a stand or properly present arguments about this by-its-very-nature obscure field of research in a short article such as this. Even were it […]
