"Origins"....Part 1

"Origins"....Part 1
Been neglecting this due to a ton of uni work anyways taking some free time to blog. Woohoo!

*FUN FACT*
** The bible is history written from gods point of view compared to political or physical history. God selects the things that are important to him. * *

Okay so there are two "wats occuring" (re occuring) themes in the Bible These are "what went wrong" and "how can it be put right". The book of Genesis tells us exactly what the problem is, were as the rest of the bible tells us how God plans to put it right. ("by rescuing humanity from itself")

David Pawson has a really cool analogy for looking at genesis and the other 66 books of the bible. He says that together it forms one great drama/story, "The drama of Redemption"
Genesis is an important episode of the drama it is the pilot, it introduces us to the setting, cast and the plot of gods plan, and its history. To put it another way the bible is Eastenders or Stargate for any, if any americans that read this. - however i would just like to point out i am not saying the bible is a fiction story its truth written by god (albeit through man).
Without this pilot episode specifically the first few chapters (opening monologue) the rest of the season/bible would not make sense.

The hebrew title for the book is "in The Beginning" so here is our opening monologue, the title i have put as "Origins" because when the bible is translated into greek in 250BC the meaning for 'in the beginning' became 'origins', which apart from sounding sci fi (I'm a Geek) is a fitting title for the book, as it tells us about the origins of our universe & world. Plants, birds, fish and other animals, humans, sex, marriage, family life's, and the dawn of civilization with government, culture, sin death murder and sacrifices of animals and humans. It is the history of humanity. Eastenders meets discovery and sky arts, the history channel and *SYFY*. The first 11 chapters are the prologue.

Genesis doesn't just deal with origins though, it looks at some of life's ultimate questions. Where did our universe come from? Why are we here? Why do we have to die?
historians these days can record there findings and tell us how the world began but they cannot tell us why. philosophers may speculate over the origins of evil and suffering in our world but they cannot tell us why it exists. the only person who can is *god the creator.*

It is the foundation book and covers all if not most of the biblical truths that are told throughout the bible. To us its the key that unlocks the whole of the bible. Teaching us of the one true god the creator. We are also told about the nations god chooses for his blessing (Israel) scholars call this "The scandal of particularity" god choosing israel is a theme that runs throughout the bible.

I spoke before of the first leader being Abraham, Genesis is the book that helps us to understand why his descendants are significant as slaves, it also tells us of the agreement made with abraham to prosper and bless his family. this is why god protects them (slaves) - Abraham's family are like our favorite sitcom characters, take for example the character of Rodney Mckay from Stargate Atlantis (My favorite Character) as the plot began to develop with The show i found a love if you like for the character, who reminds myself of me. You begin to see that he is the back bone of the group, it is him the others turn to for his problem solving brain and he gets the crew out of some tough situations that is why the others protect him at all costs. However he not being the brightest tool in the shed when it comes to dealing with people can get into trouble himself and have to rely on being rescued by his team. In a similar kind of way god choose Abraham's Family Because they Helped him and trusted in him to fore fill his ultimate plan.

TO BE CONTINUED......(OH THE PUN, ACTUALLY I PUT THE BOOK DOWN AT THIS POINT AND FEEL ASLEEP MY BAD will continue as soon as possible)

P.S this way of looking at the bible has really opened my eyes. I am surrounded with drama in a day to day life at uni and it just made me chuckle when i read the analogy and started to think of various people playing different characters :)