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Genesis 1 is among the clearest, most comprehensible passages in the Bible. Its story-line is as straight-forward as it is dramatic, and its message is unambiguous: God created the heavens and the earth in six days. Significant contemporary evangelical scholarship aligns that creative act to natural processes over an extended period of time. Framed in a revised doctrine of God’s inspiration of the Bible, post-modern linguistics, and belief that Ancient Near Eastern mythology influenced the writing of Genesis, scholars envelope the first chapter of the Bible in obscure complexity requiring their special knowledge to unravel what is claimed to be its true meaning. Part 1 of The Misted World of Genesis One reviews that scholarship in the light of biblical and extra-biblical evidence, and affirms the perspicuity of the Bible. Genesis one can be understood without access to meanings hidden in the mists of ancient pagan culture and purportedly obscure language.Part 2 helps readers explore Genesis one as the beginning of the Christ-centred biblical narrative from creation to new creation. With stunning clarity the beginning of the Bible gives glory to God, meaning to existence, integrity to personhood, insight for life, and confidence that God will fulfill his promises to redeem to himself, through Christ, a people to live in his coming new heavens and new earth.Michael Drake is the Founding Principal (Retired) of Carey College, a Year 1 -13 Christian School in Auckland. He has worked in public and private education through teaching, school establishment and management, teacher training, curriculum writing, and policy development. He has served in student and youth work at national and local levels, and is an elder in Bays Baptist Church, Auckland. His writing includes A King’s Bible, In God’s World, Māori Culture in a Christian World View, The Child Moulders, By Fear and Fallacy, and a number of booklets and papers.
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