Nature is the First Scripture
The first act of divine revelation is creation itself. The first Bible is the Bible of nature. It was written at least 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment that we call the Big Bang, long before the Bible of words.
Father Richard • The First Bible
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The first act of divine revelation is creation itself. The first Bible is the Bible of nature. It was written at least 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment that we call the Big Bang, long before the Bible of words.
Respecting Creation as the First Bible
If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we’d ever get past the first chapter. The claims that Genesis 1 makes about who and what we are as human beings are so potent, so stirring, so breathtaking, and ultimately so demanding that we can’t just read it and move on. The chapter demands nothing less than a radical reorientation of our lives
... See moreShai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Those of us who gain sustenance from the sacred beauty of nature sometimes like to think of it as a temple. But, as Mackinnon notes, “a greater truth should be foremost in mind: Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.”
resilience.org • The Ideology of Human Supremacy
Stuart Evans added
If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we’d ever get past the first chapter. The claims that Genesis 1 makes about who and what we are as human beings are so potent, so stirring, so breathtaking, and ultimately so demanding that we can’t just read it and move on. The chapter demands nothing less than a radical reorientation of our lives
... See moreShai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
God, we may say, sings us into being. He breathes forth a poem, and the poem is us: galaxies, planets, molecules, continents, animals, people. It is a beautiful poem, a glorious song, and somehow we are alive and in the middle of it.
Brad East • Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry
Lael Johnson and added
should think of scripture as the environment in which we live and through which the holy spirit leads us to knowledge of the reality of God and Jesus Christ.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
should think of scripture as the environment in which we live and through which the holy spirit leads us to knowledge of the reality of God and Jesus Christ.