What can we learn about GOD from reading the early chapters of Genesis?
D.A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL writes in Volume 1 “For the Love of God…A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God’s Word:”
Genesis 1 portrays the beginning of everything in this created universe.
On the face of it, this chapter, and the lines of thought it develops, establish that God is different from the universe that he creates, and therefore pantheism is ruled out; that the original creation was entirely good, and therefore dualism is ruled out; that human beings, male and female together, are alone declared to be made in the image of God, and therefore forms of reductionism that claim we are part of the animal kingdom and no more must be ruled out; that God is a talking God, and therefore all notions of an impersonal God must be ruled out; that this God has sovereignly made all things, including all people, and therefore conceptions of merely tribal deities must be ruled out.
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