The First Bible
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
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.
Nathan Bettger • Nature is the First Scripture
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
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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
The first words of the Bible are: "When God began to create heaven and earth"; they are not: "This is a scientific treatment…
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Marc Zvi Brettler PhD • How to Read the Bible
The Bible is often quoted as the most important book of our civilization. What about the dictionary? Didn’t John 1:1 says: “In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God”?
Michael Dean added
God was the first entrepreneur. He brought something out of nothing. He established order out of chaos. He created for the good of others. Before the Bible tells us that God is loving, holy, or merciful, we learn that he is creative.
Jordan Raynor • Called to Create: A Biblical Invitation to Create, Innovate, and Risk
The word Bible originally meant “book,” but the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament is not one book but many, an anthology of ancient Israelite and early Jewish religious writings. Different religious communities have different versions of this anthology, as well as different names for it. Jews and Protestant Christians have the same conten
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