Digging Deeper with Lee Cook

Genesis- Background and Introduction

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In this episode, we try to discover the worldview of the Ancient Near East so we can read the Bible more faithfully

  • There is no Natural/Supernatural divide--no distinction between sacred and secular
  • One of the primary concerns of the ancient world was order
  • Genesis in more concerned with "Functional Creation" rather than "Material Creation"
  • The Bible lives in a culture with lots of creation stories, some of which are very similar. 
  • The Bible doesn't "borrow" stories from the cultures around, but rather it shares common cultural assumptions about the nature of the universe--this shouldn't worry us

    • For more information see John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis 1

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