tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17636597.post115202998796002803..comments2023-10-28T09:02:21.966-05:00Comments on the amos complex: Genesis 1Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17636597.post-1152206465584345532006-07-06T12:21:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:21:00.000-05:00A thought and a question:The idea of goodness stuc...A thought and a question:<BR/><BR/>The idea of goodness stuck me today. I have said to you before that if heaven is simply everything we know now, but without sin, it will be far more glorious than I can imagine. Hearing God pronounce this world good over and over again made me realize the simple fact that evil is an aberration. That our world was created to be, initially was, and finally will be good.<BR/><BR/>I'm not quite sure what to do with this understanding. My impulse is to hide in some corner until the evil passes. I often have trouble enjoying the goodness in the face of overwhelming evil (it seems cheap, or at least blind, to me). The other day I read the play "The Duchess of Malfi" and found myself resonating with the Duchess' lines "I account this world a tedious theatre, For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will." This clearly doesn’t fit with what we read in Genesis one, but how does one live joyfully in a world of pain without increasing or denying that pain?<BR/><BR/>The question is, what significance to you make of all the naming that happens in chapters one and two? God is always creating something and then calling it something. Later he passes this duty to Adam in naming the animals. I don't know if it has meaning in having the authority to give something its identity, or conveys a sense of ownership, but it is explicit and repeated.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks for writing about your studies. It's nice to hear more than my own voice echoing in my head.Jaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268233330331784205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17636597.post-1152107466950517432006-07-05T08:51:00.000-05:002006-07-05T08:51:00.000-05:00You might be interested in looking at Meredith Kli...You might be interested in looking at Meredith Kline's interpretation of the 6 day issue (though I'm not sure of the exact work in which he discusses it--I only know of it second hand). My understanding is that Kline doesn't think that chronlogical issues are at all in view in Genesis 1. Rather, the structure of the passage is that on the first three days, God creates the framework and on the last three, he fills it. The upshot is just an echo of the point that you and Jared have already made, namely, that Genesis 1 is really about the creative majesty and goodness of God and the goodness and beauty of what he has made.Adam Kadlachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04674504554010761786noreply@blogger.com