Jesus At 2am - A Humorous, Intelligent Look At The Bible, Church History & The Life Of Faith

Welcome to part 1 of our series Healing Eden - a detailed journey through the grand story of salvation, from Genesis to Revelation. And as you would expect, we begin at the beginning with the creation story, indeed the two creation stories in Genesis.  But our goal is not simply to explain how the world began, but why the world began. For the creation story is a love story, told not in scientific detail, but in the mythic language of the Ancient Near East that reveals divine intention. And so we’ll uncover the deeper meaning behind light and darkness, sea monsters and sacred rest. And in the process, we’ll meet a God who speaks the universe into being with peaceful power, and we’ll find ourselves—humankind—created not by evolutionary accident, but in the very image of God so as to join God in love and creation. For a big part of what it means to bear the image of God is to join in the work of creating. We can’t create ex nihilo (something from nothing). But God has clearly given us resources from which we are