Continuing our series, Things you can get wrong reading the Bible. Today, Creation.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1,2)

There is very little detail as to the creation of the heavens. Sun, Moon and Stars, but what of Planets? Asteroids? Black Holes? WHY?! It is the earth we are aware of, and only those few details in the heavens that can be viewed from the earth. Yet, in all cases throughout the Bible, “heaven” is mentioned first.

“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.” (Isaiah 65:17, mirrored in Revelation 21:1)

The Bible is a spiritual book, and a belief in this or that method of creation is of no spiritual consequence nor benefit. The purpose of the Word is not to tell us about the natural world, but to tell us about that spiritual world. Although we know very little about them, the heavens are present by virtue of their being the means through which the natural world is both created and maintained. What we see in the natural world is the manifestation of the creation of the spirit. And the MEANS of that creation and re-creation is SPIRITUAL.

“… the natural world… comes into existence and continues in existence from the spiritual world, and both worlds from the Divine. … not a thing can continue in existence from itself, but from something prior to itself, thus from the First. Therefore, if separated from that it would utterly perish and vanish.” (Heaven and Hell, paragraph 106)

Change your attitudes and beliefs to change the world.