Jeff Cavins

It's just the way that God had it written, and it's actually very beautiful.

Now, when you get up to the patriarchs, which you're going to be up into that period pretty quick, that's typically more of a linear type of history, which we're going to get into.

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it.

It is, you know, it's early world.

It's the beginning of the entire story, but it's told in a very dramatic way.

And you think about it, we're dealing with chapters 1

And two, we're dealing with creation.

And imagine that.

All of creation, the entire world, Adam, Eve, everything, is in just a few hundred words.

And so we have to ask ourselves, well, what is God trying to get across in the early world?

And basically, it is that he has created a place for his greatest creation, which is mankind, to dwell.

and he's going to have a relationship with Adam and Eve in the garden, and it doesn't go so well.

It kind of goes south real quick.

Well, it's interesting, in the very first chapter, the key here is the first and second verses.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void.

And darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.

The key there is, is at the beginning, is that as you look at creation, there is no form and it's void.

And the creation...

really deals with the formlessness, and then it fills the void.

So, for example, when you're dealing with formlessness, you have the first three days of creation that are dealing with the formlessness.