Title: God's Creation
Contents
Subject: God's Creation
Bible text:
Genesis 1: 1-5 Chaos on the water
Mark 1: 4-11 The Holy Spirit and Baptism
Genesis 1:1-5 God on the water
God's creation is a widely shared theology in the ancient Near East. The words 'creation' and 'theology' are definitions claimed to provide a background for the interpretation of the text.
First, in the context of the Ancient Near East, the term 'theology' often means some ultimate truth. The story of Jesus, which provides an example of creation, is truth. The reversal in the meaning of this truth is the reason to distinguish by the scientific method in our culture. Because science requires truths that we can see, taste, touch, smell, or hear.
Next, the term ‘creation’ refers to the structure of the entire universe. Creation is the subject of theological theory, the perfect pattern for the ultimate question of the world in the ancient Near East. Creation theology theories can be viewed in depth according to four questions.
1. Who is God?
2. What is the character or nature of this world?
3. What is the relationship between this world and God?
4. Who are we? Or the greatness of God's relationship to this world
What does it mean to be human in a situation?
Genesis 1:1-5 first focuses on the first three questions. When God creates, the structure of the world begins to take shape. God's creative power appears as a fearful existence to the weak. The new sentence describing the first act of creation (Genesis 1:3) describes the chaos before God's creative work. God proceeds to shape the world structure.