1. Bible 10: 16 Sept. 2013
In Journals: In your opinion, what are the top 3 main events in the Bible?

2. Why is it important to know the main story of the Bible and/or human history?

3. The importance of Metanarrative:
“Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.” -Jean-François Lyotard ( )

4. Postmodernism defined by
a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”

5. A World in Need of Metanarrative
Relativism – no absolute truth Individualism – I am at the center of my story Existentialism – There is no meaning, just be

6. As Lisa drove me home, my mind ached as I replayed Scott’s words
As Lisa drove me home, my mind ached as I replayed Scott’s words. All the Old Testament and New Testament verses had one oddly familiar voice — one tone, one heart. I wondered, How could a book written by so many different people over the course of hundreds of years fit together perfectly as if one amazing storyteller has written the whole thing? The Holy Spirit began melting my vanity and arrogance with a power stronger than any hex, incantation, or spell I’d ever used. Suddenly, the blindfold I’d worn for almost 30 years was stripped away, and instantly I knew what I’d been searching for: Jesus! -Kimberly Shumate, “I Was a Witch” – Xianity Today

7. Read Genesis 1 Silently
In Journals: What words did you see repeated? Which words seem important?

8. Read Revelation 21 Silently
In Journals: What Similarities do Genesis 1 and Revelation 21 share?

9. The Universal Story
Zoom out
What is Our Role?

10. can fundamentally CHANGE
Where the story begins
& where the story ends
can fundamentally CHANGE
what the story is.

11. Beginning of the story…
Genesis 1
Beginning of the story…
Astrophysical
Biological

12. Genesis 1
Historical context
Competing stories
Poetry

13. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Bara – to create

14. Genesis 1:2
And the world was formless and void and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Tohu vaVohu

15. Tohu vaVohu Day 1: Light & Darkness Day 2: Waters & Heavens**
Day 3: Dry Earth & Vegetation

16. No more Tohu vaVohu Day 4: Sun, Moon, & Stars Day 5: Fish & Birds
Day 6: Land Creatures & Us

17. Creation Day 1: Light & Darkness Day 4: Sun, Moon, & Stars
Day 2: Waters & Heavens**
Day 5: Fish & Birds
Day 3: Dry Earth & Vegetation
Day 6: Land Creatures & Us

18. Threes
days of ordering
days of filling
“Bara” in 1:27

19. Sevens
“And God saw…”
“And it was so…”
Days in the first week

20. “…according to their kind”
3+7=10
v. - To make
“…according to their kind”
“And God said…”

21. Six? “And there was evening and there was morning…”
“And then God rested… … … …”

22. Genesis 1 - Creation is Good
Good != Perfect
Physicality
1:11–Dasha–Sprout, Bring Forth

23. V26-28 Rada – Rule, Have Dominion CULTURAL MANDATE Kabash – Subdue
Participation in Creation
Rada – Rule, Have Dominion
CULTURAL MANDATE
Kabash – Subdue
Hierarchy & Shalom

24. V26-28
The world is growing and filled with potential… now do something with it!

25. Making things
Art and Beauty
Relationship
Learning
Organizing
Developing

26. Beginning
Eden
No Death
Rivers
Tree of Life
People
God is there

27. Where you go to be with God after you die?
HEAVEN in Genesis 1?
Where you go to be with God after you die?
No death…
God is present…
NOPE

28. Revelation 21:1-3

29. End New Earth No Death River of Life Trees of Life Nations
God is there

30. Beginning  End Eden New Earth No Death No Death Rivers River of Life
Tree of Life Trees of Life
People Nations
God is there God is there

31. Garden  DASHA!  City Eden New Earth No Death No Death
Rivers River of Life
Tree of Life Trees of Life
People Nations
God is there God is there