The Scriptures: Genesis 1:1 - The God Of The Scriptures

The Scriptures, what we now call The Bible, are a collection of 66 different books written across 1500 years in three main literary genres: narrative, poetry, discourse. The scriptures aren’t meant to be shackles that imprison you, they are meant to be a doorway into another world. One page 1 we are introduced to God, the creator; but what is this God like? Is he like the capricious and volatile gods of the ancient peoples that surrounded the Israelites? Is he the angry, intolerant and harsh God that many Christians believe He is? In this episode we begin in Genesis 1 and then take a “tour” through this world of the Bible to examine how God describes himself and how the story of Jesus and the demoniac in Mark 4/5 hyperlinks us right back to the creation narrative to announce that He is the God whom we read about in the whole Old Testament.