Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Bible Study Brief: Genesis 1

Sunday, February 14

First story: Genesis 1:1-2:4a


                The first text of the Easter vigil is the first creation story. It is a beautiful story of God creating everything out of nothing. Other creation stories involve death, violence, and subjugation, but this God creates out of nothing, bringing forth life for life, not out of death. God simply speaks and it is so; no one has to die or to lose an epic battle for creation. Right from the beginning of the beginning, then, we see that God is different from other gods. God desires relationship and creates out of love and for love. God provides food—plants and trees only, no meat yet!-- for what has been created, and God creates in God’s own image, so that all of creation is a reflection of the Divine Maker. And God likes what is made, declaring every bit of it “Good”! Finally, God even creates rest, building in a day off for creatures and Creator alike, and proclaims that day holy. 

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