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======Creation: Heaven and Earth ...======
Monday, Aug 5, 2013. "Where do we come from?" This is one of the old questions
of mankind. But it is more than that. It is a question which everyone of us
has to unser. Who are we? Where do I come from? Where am I going?
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**Biblical setup ...**
The bible answers the question of our beginning right in its beginning. It starts
with a report of creation, with a summary and analysis of what happened at the
beginning. Let us read into this ... and see what we can learn. Let us discuss
what we hear:
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
(Gen 1, 1-5)
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Where would YOU start when it comes to the beginning? What would be your first
account? What would be the beginning of your story of mankind? Here, the bible starts
with creation. It starts with God, acting as creator.
**A personal creator ...**
The bible announces God as the one who started it all. He created heaven and
earth - in the beginning. Before that, there is only him. But there is much more
in this story of creation!
Gods spirit is here, over the deep. What ever this deepness is! It might be the
deepness in some image, with the earth over it - that would still be an
interpretation which would help us to learn more about God.
But I would read the deepness more with natural science ears: as the
**depth of space**. Today we know how deep space is (though scientists
still do not know wether the depth is infinite or perhaps finitely
bent in a fourdimensional
space as the twodimensional earth surface is in a three-dimensional space, being
unbounded, but not infinite).
We can read this as natural processes, leading to the world as we know it
today. And we will need to talk more about this. But there is something else
here, which is of emminent importance:
**God was there**, and he saw. He called things by name. There is some personal
beginning. God is there, as someone, right when it all starts. We do not live in
an empty universe. It is a universe where the personal God is there, when it
comes into being. It is not without purpose. It is not without goal. He is there,
calling it into existence, and he is there being its driving force and its
counterpart.
(Roland Potthast)
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