So, at about noon today I had experienced all my classes "syllabi reviews." All in all I am very happy with my schedule of classes and definitely pleased with my professors. It's looking to be a very good start at Texas Wesleyan. One thing that I have noticed about all my classes though is that at some point in the semester each of my classes at some point requires you to work in a group. It's said that about 90% of all companies these days are using teams to get their projects done. Productivity has shot through the roof. I guess I might as well get used to working groups.
Onto something? No not so much
Do you ever get that feeling when your studying your bible that you are onto something? Well, I did. Yesterday. If you read my previous post about Genesis and God creating light then you know full well what I’m referring to. I was correct i think in a sense, however I would like to clear up that God did not create evil but that Adam and Eve’s choice to eat of the fruit brought sin into the world and so from then on we were a fallen people who needed a savior. When it comes to the light, yes God did create Light twice, sort of. In Genesis 1:3, God does in fact create Light by saying, “Let there be light,” and so light existed, then in Genesis 1:5 God seperates the light from the dark. And finally in Genesis 1:14-19 God gives the world the Sun to govern the light of the day and the Moon and stars to govern the night.
Point being this: God’s creation is beyond comprehension and its vast and amazing and glorious and magnificent and beautiful and overwhelming and I could go on and on. God has done an amazing work here in this world, not because he needed to but because He wanted to. God’s love for us is unquenchable. He gave us the world, to care for, and to love Him. He desires so much a personal relationship with all of us. And I do mean ALL. Genesis is a book that has been debated on for thousands of years, and we will never truly know how God did it. That doesn’t really matter anyway. He did it. End of story and end of statement. That is all that matters.
Because God is Love.
Onto something? No not so much
Do you ever get that feeling when your studying your bible that you are onto something? Well, I did. Yesterday. If you read my previous post about Genesis and God creating light then you know full well what I'm referring to. I was correct i think in a sense, however I would like to clear up that God did not create evil but that Adam and Eve's choice to eat of the fruit brought sin into the world and so from then on we were a fallen people who needed a savior. When it comes to the light, yes God did create Light twice, sort of. In Genesis 1:3, God does in fact create Light by saying, "Let there be light," and so light existed, then in Genesis 1:5 God seperates the light from the dark. And finally in Genesis 1:14-19 God gives the world the Sun to govern the light of the day and the Moon and stars to govern the night.
Point being this: God's creation is beyond comprehension and its vast and amazing and glorious and magnificent and beautiful and overwhelming and I could go on and on. God has done an amazing work here in this world, not because he needed to but because He wanted to. God's love for us is unquenchable. He gave us the world, to care for, and to love Him. He desires so much a personal relationship with all of us. And I do mean ALL. Genesis is a book that has been debated on for thousands of years, and we will never truly know how God did it. That doesn't really matter anyway. He did it. End of story and end of statement. That is all that matters.
Because God is Love.
Creation Story Thought Throwdown…
So, this week in the sunday school class i teach for the 7th graders we are talking about the Creation story in Genesis 1:1-2:4 this week and I was reading it today a couple of thoughts were running through my head so i need get some feedback on this. See what you all think.
Look at Genesis 1:5.
Done? No, seriously get a bible and look it up. Or go to www.youversion.com and look it up there. (Awesome site btw)
Now look at Genesis 1:14.
Seeing anything? In verse five this happens:
“God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. ”
Verse 14 reads this way:
“And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,”
God creates “light” twice. Or does he? Where do we get the “light” during the day? From what source? The sun, and what about the night, well of course its the moon. So the creating of the sun and the moon and the stars happens in verse 14, right? But in verse 5 God still creates some form of “light.”
Ok go with me on this. Could this be God creating good and evil? Because one is light and one is dark. Thoughts?
Please get back to me on this. I’m really intrigued about the responses on this one.
Holiness and?
“The real problem comes when we recognize God’s holiness but fail to articulate the other side of his character: grace. Jesus represents truth plus grace.” -UnChristian by David Kinnamen p. 36