Chapter 1: What is the purpose of The Bible in a Year podcast?
Hi, I'm Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story.
This is day one, so let's get started. A couple of reminders is that we're using the Bible translation of the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition. That's the RSVCE. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
And if you're interested in getting the Bible reading plan that we're using, you can download the Bible in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. That's ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year, all one word. The Bible reading plan is based off of
the great adventure Bible timeline and the Bible timeline created by Jeff Cavins covers the 14 narrative books of the old Testament and the new Testament. So that you get the entire story of salvation in a really creative way. We're also including these supplemental books or the non narrative books in along the way with those 14 narrative books.
So while you're hearing the story unfold and being unpacked and being proclaimed to you, you're also going to be getting like, here's where those other books, those non-narrative books fit in to the great story. You can subscribe at your podcast app, wherever you listen to podcasts.
And you can also sign up for our email list by texting the word Catholic Bible, all one word, Catholic Bible, to the number 33777. Today, we will be reading from Genesis chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 2, the first two chapters of Genesis, as well as Psalm 19. As we launch into Genesis 1 and 2, we're going to hear both stories of creation.
This is the early world period in the Great Adventure Bible timeline. And then Psalm 19, of course, is just this beautiful Psalm of David on the creation of the world. Let's get started. Genesis chapter 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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. And God said, let there be light. And there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. There was evening and there was morning one day.
And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it separate waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
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Chapter 2: What do Genesis chapters 1 and 2 reveal about creation?
Then the Lord God said, it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper fit for him. So out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
The man gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the air and to every beast of the field. But for the man, there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man. And while he slept, took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
The man said, this at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Psalm 19 To the Choir Master A Psalm of David
The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words. Their voice is not heard, yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hid from its heat. The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold, sweeter also than honey in drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is thy servant warned.
In keeping them, there is great reward. But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. And then I shall be blameless and innocent of great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
Okay, so that, oh gosh, Genesis 1 and 2. I don't think I can overemphasize the importance of Genesis chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 2, because if we get these two and tomorrow's chapters wrong, we're going to get the entire rest of the story wrong. In fact, the trajectory of the entire Bible, the entire story of salvation.
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