Game Start – The Summary

It’s so easy to lose an internet surfer before he discovers the gems amongst all the words, so I thought I would give you a taste of what’s to come.

The major points...

• I’m going to show you some prophetic interpretations of Genesis 1 that are a sign for the times we are in. Basically the entire history of the world, since Adam, on page 1.

• I’m going to show you radical consequences of assuming that Genesis 2 actually follows Genesis 1. That is, the account of the creation of Adam is not a more detailed description of man created on day 6, but an event that occurred after God rested on day 7, exactly as written!

• I’m going to show you a reading of Genesis 1 that reveals The Father and the Son before time began. This reveals a whole new perspective of the physics behind creation.

Have I got your attention? There are a lot of other cool issues explored. There are challenges to Christian theology and popular Science. But I just wanted to grab your attention as quickly as possible because there are also a lot of words.

WARNING I’m about to show you something new. Questions will flood into your mind. How did we miss this? How can one assumption change so much and yet not change the story? If you can resist the reaction to dismiss it just because it is different, there is a prize. The prize is a better revelation of God the Father of Jesus Christ. Seriously, you need to pray a prayer something like this... God, if this is You, I want to see it. If not let these words fall to the ground. My prayer for you is... Dad, open their eyes to see You and to see your Son, Jesus. Open their ears to hear more than what my words can convey. Let them see your passion and your purposes here in the early Genesis chapters. Everything is meaningless, academic debate unless it enables you to better see God and His Son.

Why read this?

• You’re going to see some things a bit differently. It’s a bit like making a picture by joining the dots. I’m just going to join them in a different order and you will be surprised and delighted by what you see. The dot that says Adam was created 6,000 years ago is not altered. The dots that show that God created all things through Jesus, that Jesus reconciled all things to God, and that Jesus is coming again soon, are still preeminent and perhaps even bolder.
• I’m going to reconcile some scientific concepts with the Bible. Don’t worry, God got it right and science is playing catch-up.
• I’m going to explain some quirky little things that even the notes in my Study Bible struggle with. Then you will have to wonder why these ideas have not been main stream theology long ago, but even that is in God’s timing.
• I’m going to show you a different pre-Adam timeline but the post Adam timeline, the last 6,000 years, is rock solid Bible.
• I’m going to show you Jesus and God’s vision, from beginning to end, revealed on page 1.

The Summary

I present several different ways or models to view the creation account in Genesis 1. These use symbolic; literal; technical and prophetic, images extracted from the very brief description in Genesis 1. I was amazed myself when I saw the last 6 millennia mapped out in days 1 to 6 which gave rise to the chapters on “God’s Timetable” in Page-1-God. But the surprises kept on coming. Look out for “God’s Acceleration Factor” in the Universe Model, which reconciles the age of the universe that science proposes with Genesis 1. But after extensive investigation of multiple Models, the classic Literal Model and the prophetic model I have called “God’s Timetable”, are seen as most important.

However there is another key, even radical issue introduced. Everyone who reads Genesis tends to assume that the account of the creation of Adam in Genesis 2 is a more detailed account of man created on day 6 in the first creation account, given in Genesis 1. But, if you can see the creation of Adam exactly as it is written, as an event after God created all things material in Genesis 1, then amazing things happen...

• You can view Genesis 1 simply as a preface for the creation of Adam. That includes day-6 man!
• The physical creation is seen as just that, and dogmatic interpretations of time scales are resolved. The acceptance of some significant pre-history before Adam actually re-enforces the clear timeline depicted from Adam onwards. We also see God’s pattern of making major adjustments every 2,000 years, at work on page 1.
• Lots of quirky little things that did not make sense suddenly do make sense. Christian theology always had work-a-rounds for these dilemmas, but it’s easier to see things this way, so there is no dilemma.
• You see the same God at work on pages 1 and 2 as in the rest of the Bible. He’s not acting in some genie-like way in days 1-6 that you don’t see again in the rest of the Bible. He’s not cursing everything He created when Adam stuffed up but He is allowing things to unfold as He knew they would. In fact, if you look the right way you see the last 6,000 years summarized on page 1.
• You can also see God setting things up for Adam in this world, just as he set things up for Jesus in heaven.

In addition, various scientific understandings are reconciled with revelations in the Bible. So science (as different from some scientists,) is not opposed to the Bible, but rather it all comes down to what, or who, you are seeking.

There is much, much more, but there are also lots of words. Some challenges to traditional Christian theology needs careful biblical justification. Some Christians as well as atheists will oppose the ideas, so in places I’m a little defensive.

The “revelations” I present here, if you will allow me to use that word for now, unfolded over a several years starting in about 2005. In places you might think I’m opposed to believers who passionately proclaim and defend the literal interpretation of Genesis 1. It is true that I challenge some of the theology that has grown out of this, but apart from the Literal Model believers, I have found no other Christian view that faithfully preserves the clear and exact history from Adam onwards. So in reality, it’s the rest of Christendom, that has abandoned the literal model and hence the literal history from Adam onwards, that most needs to hear what I am saying so that they can again see the actual start of God’s plan in Adam. Once you see the start then you can focus on the soon to occur, next major step.

It’s my hope that readers who do not yet believe in Jesus will find explanations here that will transition them to a biblical world view. Also that believers who read this will be encouraged and strengthened to see that God did get it right and both Science, and the Church, is slowly catching up.