The First Bible
Creation accounts do not provide scientific truths about material origins; they reveal deeper truths: truths about identity—who God is and who we are—and purpose, the ends for which we are made.
Abigail Favale • The Genesis of Gender
We can begin to experience nature as a doorway to the sacred, a way to find stillness, silence, and timeless mystery.
Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild
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
Where the Spirit hovers, chaos is not the final word—freedom is coming.
Genesis 1:2: The Spirit hovers over a world described as tohu vavohu (“formless and void,” chaos).
When the Word is spoken, light and order break in. Creation is liberated from emptiness and darkness.
The same Spirit who hovered in Genesis is hovering still, bringing light into
“You want to talk about the Bible? Creation is the first Bible.”
Randy Woodley speaking at Illuman webinar 3/21/25