27 Sep '13 19:01>2 edits
This thread will be on on the early chapters of Genesis. For my purpose my emphases will be exploring symbols of Jesus Christ and of the growth of Jesus Christ as divine life within man.
Gaps, the age of the earth, the science of the origin of the world I will not speak to. From my effort I want to talk about seeing the center of the whole Bible in Genesis - and that center is the Son of God, Christ.
If some want to regard this as spiritualizing Genesis, I will not object to that charge. But I will provide reasons why such spiritualizing is legitimate, necessary and helpful to the seeker of truth.
First let me talk about the phrase "divine life". Divine life is not something man is created with. Man is created with natural life. Sometime after being born with natural life, if one receives the Lord Jesus she or he is born again with divine life.
By divine life I also mean the Trinity.
The entrance of the divine life of God is our getting to know a PERSON. That life is a Person - the Triune God. We receive divine life simultaneously with being joined to a living Person of God.
The symbolism of receiving the Triune God as divine life and having that Person grow, saturate, and fill up man is very much in Genesis 1 and 2.
"Young Earth" verses "Old Earth" has very little to do with this. This will be a study of life - God as life imparted into man as allegories in Genesis 1 and 2 particularly.
Gaps, the age of the earth, the science of the origin of the world I will not speak to. From my effort I want to talk about seeing the center of the whole Bible in Genesis - and that center is the Son of God, Christ.
If some want to regard this as spiritualizing Genesis, I will not object to that charge. But I will provide reasons why such spiritualizing is legitimate, necessary and helpful to the seeker of truth.
First let me talk about the phrase "divine life". Divine life is not something man is created with. Man is created with natural life. Sometime after being born with natural life, if one receives the Lord Jesus she or he is born again with divine life.
By divine life I also mean the Trinity.
The entrance of the divine life of God is our getting to know a PERSON. That life is a Person - the Triune God. We receive divine life simultaneously with being joined to a living Person of God.
The symbolism of receiving the Triune God as divine life and having that Person grow, saturate, and fill up man is very much in Genesis 1 and 2.
"Young Earth" verses "Old Earth" has very little to do with this. This will be a study of life - God as life imparted into man as allegories in Genesis 1 and 2 particularly.