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Belief, God, Old Testament

Genesis 1:6-8 | What Does it Mean to Be Good?

9 November 2018 Michael Bevel

What does it mean to find something good? I hadn’t even really thought about that question at all until I realized there are three places where God isn’t pleased. Not angry, necessarily, but not announcing that “it was good” either.

Tagged Everett Fox, Genesis, It Was Good, Midrash, Separation, The Five Books of Moses, WaterLeave a comment
Belief, God, Old Testament

Genesis 1:1-2 | Something Out of Something

9 November 2018 Michael Bevel

We have a chance to read this passage differently, this order out of chaos. We’re left, maybe, with creation out of something: out of the wild and waste. Out of Ocean. Out of whatever darkness is. We have to be willing to read with new eyes.

Tagged Creation, Everett Fox, Ex nihilio, Genesis, The Five Books of Moses1 Comment

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