From Background Notes [BN] for July 7th & 8th
written by Pastor Bob Brown:
Scholars who interact with both science and theology suggest the anthropic principle, that everything about the earliest origins of the universe point to the sustenance of human beings in it. The world has been made for sustaining human beings, and human beings have been made for…
Scholars who interact with both science and theology suggest the anthropic principle, that everything about the earliest origins of the universe point to the sustenance of human beings in it. The world has been made for sustaining human beings, and human beings have been made for…
… understanding the world. Nothing in this statement takes sides on the how of creation (e.g. evolution vs. 6-day creation), only that the birth of the universe assumes the eventual appearance of human beings. Genesis 2 presents a similar perspective in a very different way. According to 2:4-15, human beings were uppermost in God’s mind when he crafted earth’s ecosystem. Using agricultural language, the text describes the formation of a life-system, the creation of umankind from the same earth out of which all things in that life-system grow, and the placement of the humans in this “garden.” [BN, 2]
Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:
* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am, 5:30pm
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