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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) ... more texts

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