Purpose of this Blog

I've come up with three purposes for this blog:

1. Cutting and pasting my book "The Real Good News!" chronologically.

2. An ongoing Bible Study through the book of Genesis titled "Beginning at the Beginning". It's purpose is to a God and His purposes when view through the paradigm of a God who wins totally. Not just wins with one or a billion casualties, but a God who wins everthing.

3. Various Life Thoughts.

I have gone back and properly titled all three of these purposes.

I hope these bless you.

Charlie

Beginning at the Beginning

Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

This verse is such a breath of fresh air. Direct and to the point. Simple and easy to understand. No unnecessary embellishment. However, it requires faith from the very first. How did the writer of Genesis receive this information? He may have received it from oral or written tradition. If this is truth then someone had to receive this information directly from God by revelation. Maybe the writer of Genesis was Moses. If so, it was likely Moses who received the knowledge of Creation directily from God. It does not get any more revelationary (made it up) than this.

Do you believe this Creation account? It is impossible to believe this without faith. How do you obtain this faith. We will probably wait until we get to Abraham before we discuss faith in more detail.

The first name given to God in the Scripture is a plural word. The name is Elohim. Elohim is a plural of Eloah. However, even though it is plural it governs a singular verb or adjective. Why is a plural name given to our one God? There are many scholarly opinions as to what this would signify. An example being The United States. United States ends in an "s" and is plural, signifying the States which are United. However we see it as a singular entity. And it takes a singular verb or adjective. We know this singular entity is made up of many states which are united. This in itself proves nothing, but it does clearly open the door of wonder.