#86 – The First Days: Genesis 1 & 2
Episode description
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue their series within Genesis 1-11 focusing specifically on the first days of creation.
Questions Covered in This Episode:
- Original audience for Genesis?
- What questions do we tend to ask that the text is not trying to answer?
- What is happening with the rhythms in the creation account?
- Is this framework intentional?
- What would you say to someone who says “this is just a plain reading of the text”?
- What are some patterns we see in the creation account?
- On day 4 God creates heavenly bodies, why is this significant?
- Genesis 2:1-3 - What’s different about the 7th day?
Helpful Definitions:
- Pentateuch: The first five books of the Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- Cosmology: The science of the origin and development of the universe.
- Polemic: Argument.
- Naturalism: The idea that the world is closed and purley material and has no external spiritual or supernatural forces operating in it or within it or around it.
- Framework Theory: The theory that God forms and creates kingdoms on days 1, 2, and 3 and then on days 4, 5, and 6 he fills those kingdoms and he does so in a corresponding way. Days 1 and 4 correspond, days 2 and 5 correspond, and days 3 and 6 correspond.
- Pattern in each specific day of creation: Command, Report, Assessment, Dominion, Timemarker.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- Genesis 1-2, Psalm 19, John 1:4, Revelation 21:23, Revelation 22:5
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