Reading Your Bible Better (1) - Creation (8/11)

The Need to Understand the Bible
Sproul first talks about 3 issues that he hopes to address within this series of podcast:

1) Neglect of content of scripture
2) Giving up of bible reading because of the difficulty involved in understanding
3) Major themes of the bible as hooks for understand of the bible as a whole

I agree with all his three points, I do think it occurs in the order of 2, 3 and then 1. I believe many new christians started to read the bible with fire and zeal but after hitting some difficult parts of the bible, they slowly give up reading because they feel that reading them does no good.

At least that's how I felt initially, this series thus is to help Christians to read their bible better, by exploring such hooks as guidelines to help them understand the major themes of (hopefully) each book of the bible.

Creation
Gen 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Three things that ought to be noted here.
 
1) Beginning
This is the starting point of time and history and everything has to trace back to this. Christians do not believe myth of eternal recurrence/karma. But that it had a definite beginning.

Sproul then highlights that even science whilst not wanting to hold to the position of God being the Creator, has to acknowledge this point that this world had a beginning.

So how did it get started? There had to be an outside source, that scientist are bluffered, but christian are not, it's clearly stated, God started the act of creation.