Genesis

I have been studying the book of Genesis with a group of guys for the last 2+ years and it has shaped my faith and the way I read the rest of the Bible in some amazing ways. There are certain aspects of that book that have truly captivated my imagination. That book has much to say about the way things are on a macro level. It tells us why things aren't as we think they should be right in the very beginning of the book.

The first two chapters tell us that when it was created there was a way things were supposed to be, a world where the big concepts we all believe in are valid. We can wrestle with why truth, honesty, fairness and all the rest of those big ideas we have in common aren't realities in our world but at the end of the day, we have to come back to the problem of why, when we have a shared set of values these aren't the way of the world.

I can only come at this from the perspective of a believer, I believe God created all that is and all that was and that His judgment was, at the completion of His work, very good, that is, as it should be. There was nothing remotely random about creation and the notions we have about the way things should be were built into the system at the start. We are the problem in the system. There is much talk today about human based corruption of the system around the issue of global warming or climate change or whatever the preferred term du jour may be, but the truth is that all the problems in the world come down to a human problem called sin, which has degraded all life on the planet including our own.

The good news is that God has a solution for the problem, a solution planned from the beginning, but it requires eventually a new creation, one we can't spoil.