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Interpreting the Genesis creation story (edit 2)

I'm still working on updating my interpretation of the Genesis creation story. You may next want to read:Interpreting the Genesis creation story: an introductionThe role of evidence in the Christian faithAnother post, from the table of contents

Interpreting the Genesis creation story (edit 1)

I'm working on updating my interpretation of the Genesis creation story, with the new things I learned since I wrote the original series. I've just written the intro for now. You may next want to read:Interpreting the Genesis creation story: an introductionThe role of evidence in the Christian faithAnother post, from the table of contents

The Gospel: the central message of Christianity

God is the original storyteller, and he uses every part of the entire universe to tell us this one story, to send us his one message. All other stories are but retellings of small snippets of this very long and very great story. We call this story the Gospel: the one story in the universe, and the central message of Christianity.

A book review: The Generations of Heaven and Earth

But Jon Garvey goes far above and beyond that - and explores many topics related to GAE from many different angles. Some of these were very new to me: that's what made this a much harder read than I anticipated, in a good way. I learned a lot. In this book he covers topics as varied as the possible locations for Eden, comparative ANE mythology, primeval 'monotheism' all over the world, theories of salvation, the meta-narrative of the Bible, the all-important "image of God", and more.

Probably the last Frozen II post - this time a meme:

For real though, as I explain in these posts:A systematic mythology of the "Frozen" universeThe Gospel according to Frozen II (or, why Elsa is Jesus) You may next want to read: A systematic mythology of the "Frozen" universeThe Gospel according to Frozen II (or, why Elsa is Jesus)Another post, from the table of contents
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