Jon Collins

What does he say?

So it reads like this.

This is Genesis 2 verses 1 and 3.

And so they were completed, the skies and the land and all their inhabitants.

Elohim completed on the seventh day the work that he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from the work that he had made, and Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart as holy.

Because on it he rested from all his work which Elohim created to make.

I tried to kind of make the middle lines rhyme.

Each one of them is seven words in Hebrew.

The three lines that have the word seven in them, the phrase seventh day, are themselves made with seven words.

Yeah, super cool.

So he completed, he rested, and he blessed the day.

So, the idea is that when God generates something out of God's own self that is not God, but that's sustained and ordered by God,

There's some energy involved there, movement out of God's own self.

God generates out of generous love something that is not God, but that is wholly contained within and sustained by God.

But that thing needs to then go on a journey of sharing in God's own rest to become one with God.

And that's the framework of the concept of creation in the story of the Bible.

Yeah, a journey of separation, of distinguishing, of things becoming their own thing.

But then also of things realizing... What do you mean by that?

Oh, the separating of days one through three.

Sure.