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
“You want to talk about the Bible? Creation is the first Bible.”
Randy Woodley speaking at Illuman webinar 3/21/25
Nature is the first Scripture and the Bible is the second. If we can’t be in right relation with the first, we will never be in right relation with the second.