![]() ![]() Genesis isn't the only place in the Bible where God is described as the creator. The God who calls Abraham is the one we have just seen, making the world, so we know that Abraham's story is one about the meaning of life, the universe and everything. So when we get on to the main action of Genesis, with God's conversations with Abraham and his descendents, we know that what is happening is not just of local significance. It opens with God, "the beginning", and everything that follows is based on this assumption of the relationship between God and the world. Genesis is, from beginning to end, a theological book. They are there to set the scene for what follows. In its printed form, Genesis has 50 chapters, only one and a bit of which directly concern the origins of the universe. But our obsession with whether and how they can be reconciled with scientific descriptions of the beginning of the universe is distorting our understanding of where these "creation narratives" fit into the wider concerns of the Book of Genesis. G enesis 1 and 2 must be among the most hotly debated texts in the Bible. ![]()
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