Allow Genesis to Tell Its Own Story
Reflections Larry R Evans Have you ever tried to tell a story only to have someone interrupt and tell their own? I wonder if we don’t do that sometimes with God. Take the book of Genesis, for example. There is much debate today over the book of Genesis. Albeit critical issues are being debated, and we have no intention of minimizing their importance, but other critical insights for our time will remain buried if we restrict our probing to the current debate. We do lament the fact that it seems to be more of a debate than a dialogue for growth and understanding. Sometimes more is told about our Christianity by the way we defend truth than the truth we are defending. Recently I finished reading an insightful book by Marva J. Dawn entitled, In the Beginning God: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life. The book’s focus is on chapter one to three of Genesis. I’ll share a few thoughts from her book as well as some personal reflections. Establishing a biblical worldview is