The Bible – Let’s Begin
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In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Bit of a secondary mission statement for these posts: I’m going to do some parts in a little detail and will skim over others. As anyone who has read the Bible knows, lots of it is just filler; lists of people, lists of begettings and shopping lists for building things. I have no desire to read them in detail and I’m sure you have no desire to read me reading them! There is also going to be little rhyme or reason as to why I stop at different parts.
Genesis 1:1 starts with God doing his thing and putting together, well, everything. So, he starts off by creating night and day. Oddly though, since there is no world and the sun shines regardless, how would anyone know when sunset and sunrise occur? Anyway, He then creates Heaven and everything underneath it. Heaven and everything else appear to be separated by water. By the end of the third day, we have a planet and lots of greenery. And then the very next day he creates stars and the sun and the moon – the sun is already a star, but He creates it separately. The moon seems to get a star-like status too. By Genesis 1:31 and the end of the sixth day it’s all done – sun, moon, stars, heaven, earth, greenery, animals and a man. Continue reading ‘The Bible – Let’s Begin’ »
