Deeply engraved with complexity and mysteriously
forged by extravagance, the drama of the biblical and natural world informers
presents significant challenges for readers, taking us to the limits of our
imaginations. Pushing reality to the edges raises questions and
issues that mustn’t be ignored. To take each informer seriously means being
open to learning and embracing truth wherever it is to be found.
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As readers of the Genesis
creation accounts today we must realize that we are foreigners to the text and
its ancient Near Eastern context, which strikes as strange and unfamiliar, yet
we are not excluded from engaging with its God, time, narration, and drama in a
somewhat recognizable pattern. Refigured lives therefore become a real
possibility for those readers who are grafted into the revelatory story of
God’s sculpting in time and the cosmic drama still in progress. This poetic and
theologically-loaded biblical world production not only includes a narrative
concordance that supersedes discordance with respect to time or changing
portraits of the actual world, but it also proclaims that life triumphs over
death and will continue to do so throughout God’s ongoing story.
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In
our book, From Evolution to Eden. Making Sense of Early Genesis, we wanted to
play off the idea that stories are powerful tools that we use to interpret and
understand God and the world. It is from this storytelling perspective that the
early chapters of Genesis will find a home and a place from which they can
still speak today. Our hope is that readers will benefit from this book and
come away with a clearer perspective of how to better interpret the Genesis
stories and the world, with integrity and humility. Order your copy here:
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As significant fresh work is done in various
disciplines, including theology and science, evangelicals are going to have to
realize that the Bible is not a book dropped from heaven that answers all our
questions, nor is it an inerrant vehicle for a direct communication from God.
I’d wager the real story is rather more complex and multi-layered than this.
When the essential and challenging relevance of reading both the natural world
and the biblical world informers is eventually accepted, evangelicals may begin
to realize that their “whole notion of revelation” has to be exposed to new
light with regard to what we can know and actually don’t know.
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Existential
anxiety today drives a fear of losing self, meaning, and truth. Yet, the
unwillingness to turn away from being one’s own authority increases. Generally,
a hardness of heart and a lack of openness to the Divine prevail in much of the
current mindset, as it becomes fixated on itself and thus gives up on the
possibility of finding adequate responses to its fears. In contrast to that
which drives our age, we desperately need to return to the God who is love, to
truth that is sufficiently livable, to redemption in Christ, and to the power
of the Spirit ― all of which can contribute to breaking the cycle of fear and
lead us into being truer selves.
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