Name: 旧約聖書の鍵を開ける 第2部 - 創世記1章 (Unlocking the Old Testament Part 2 - Genesis 1)
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Well now, the Bible is not one book, but many. The word Bible comes from the plural word

biblia which means library and the Bible is not one book but 66 books and together these

books form a history book, the history of our universe. But the Bible begins earlier,

and it ends later than any other history book because it begins with the very beginning

of our universe. It goes right through to the end of our universe and even beyond. But

it's history written from God's point of view. Therefore, he selects what is important

for him; that makes it quite different from a political history or a physical history

of our universe, or a cultural history of our society. God selects very carefully the

things that matter to him; the events which affected him most deeply. Therefore again,

it's quite different from every other history. Now there are two themes in the Bible. Number

1 - what has gone wrong with our world? And Number 2 how can it be put right? I think

everybody agrees our world is not a good place to live in. Something has gone terribly wrong

with it and the book of Genesis tells us exactly what. But the rest of the Bible tells us how

it's going to be put right, or rather how God himself will put it right. Only God could

solve a problem the size of our world and he's going to do it by rescuing the human

race from itself. For that's what we need to be rescued from - ourselves. That's what

the word redemption actually means, to be rescued; and we need to be rescued from ourselves.

So all 66 books form part of one great drama which I'm going to call the Drama of Redemption

and the book of Genesis introduces us to the stage, the cast and the plot of this great

drama, and without the first few chapters of Genesis, the rest of the Bible would really

not make any sense. The Hebrew title for this book is simply In

the Beginning, that's because the Hebrew scriptures were in the form of scrolls all

rolled up and they would simply give each scroll the name of the first word or phrase

in it so that just unwrapping the first bit of the scroll, they could identify which book

of their scriptures it was. So they simply call it In the Beginning. When the Hebrew

Old Testament was translated into Greek about 250 years before Jesus was born, they changed

the name to Genesis, which means 'origin' or 'beginning' and that's a very appropriate

title because here we have the origin of our universe - of the sun and the moon and the

stars, of planet earth on which we live. Here we have the origin of plants, birds, fish,

animals, humans. Here we have the origin of sex, of marriage and of family life. We have

the origin of civilisation, of government, of culture, both arts and sciences. We have

here the origin of sin and death and murder and war. We even have here in this book the

origin of sacrifice, both animal and human. So, it's a remarkable book, just one small

book - 50 chapters - and yet it covers the origin of all that. And it deals with ultimate

questions like Where did our universe come from? Why are we here? And even more personal,

Why does each of us have to die? - something we rebel against, something we don't talk

about or think about, something we dress up like a horticultural show to try and disguise

the horror of it. But we all have to die. Why? Now these are ultimate questions of life

and we need answers to them or else we just drown these questions in busyness and forget

them. But they can't be answered by any human being. The historians can't answer

these questions, they can't tell us how it all began because no historian was there

either to observe or record how it happened. Scientists can't tell us about the beginning

of our universe. They can go back to the beginning, but they can't go beyond that. They can't

observe anything beyond that. So they can't tell us how it began and therefore much more,

they cannot tell us why it began. Science cannot find a purpose for this universe coming

into being. They can tell us some details of how it came about, but certainly not why.

Philosophers can't answer these ultimate questions, they can only guess. It is speculation

when philosophers try and tell us for example the answer to the question that occupies most

of them, the problem of evil. Where did evil come from, why is there so much evil in the

world? Philosophers have strained their brains to try and give us an answer, but it is all

guesswork, nobody really knows. There is only one person who could really answer these questions

for us and that is God himself. So when you open the book of Genesis you are immediately

faced with a question. Are you reading the results of human imagination or divine inspiration?

Does the book of Genesis just give us another series of guesses from human speculation about

these things? Or does it actually tell us the answer, give us the answer from the only

person who was there when it all began, and indeed the person responsible for it?

There are other accounts of creation in the world. There's one widely known one called

the Babylonian Epic. It's far more complicated and far less credible than what you have in

Genesis but it's only one of other sagas which are supposed to tell us how it all began.

You should read some of them just to compare them with the sheer simplicity and convincing

nature of Genesis 1. But you must decide when you read Genesis - are you reading the product

of a human imagination or a divine inspiration? So, you've got to take a step of faith before

you open the book. But actually, science is based on steps of faith. I've got a science

degree and I know that in science you produce a hypothesis, a working theory and then you

test it to see if it fits the facts. That's how science progresses. It's built on such

leaps of faith, so you leap in faith into a theory and then you test it with the facts.

And therefore I believe that the approach of faith is scientific from that point of

view and I say, take a step of faith in Genesis, assume it is God's answer to these questions

and then see if it fits the facts, And there are two big facts that stare me in the face

which are perfectly explained by the answer in Genesis. Fact number 1, what a wonderful

world we live in. Isn't it incredible? The universe is amazing, but this planet is the

most interesting thing in the universe. It's got more variety in it. Well, it's got life

in it. We live in a wonderful world and the more you watch nature programmes on television

the more wonderful it appears to be and the wonders of modern photography are revealing

so much to us. Do you like watching those programmes? What a wonderful world we are

in and the other fact is this. It's been ruined by those who live in it.

Now these are two facts we all have to live with and we're becoming more and more conscious

of the environment and what we are doing to it. 100 different species are becoming extinct

every day. We're destroying the world we live in. Now these two facts are extraordinary.

What a wonderful world we live in; and why are we destroying it? Well I believe that

the facts fit Genesis perfectly and I believe it's a scientific approach.

Now let's look at the place of Genesis in the Bible. It's not just the first book

in the Bible it's the foundational book for the whole Bible. Most, if not all, biblical

truths are here in the book of Genesis in essence, that's why it's been called the

seed plot of the Bible. The seeds of Genesis come to fruition later in the Bible, but they

are all there in embryo. This book is in fact the key that unlocks the rest of the Bible.

Have you ever wondered what the Bible would be like if it began with Exodus instead of

Genesis? Supposing this book was missing. I think as soon as you began to read the Bible

without it you'd say, well I'm not interested in a bunch of Jewish slaves in Egypt. Why

should I study their history and religion? Only if you had a particular academic interest

in it would you read any further. But because Genesis is there, you're reading about yourself,

about your life. You understand what makes you tick and why you can't be a better person

and the person you wish to be in your best moments. Have you ever wondered why life is

such a moral struggle? Most people want to be better than they are but fail, why? Well

Exodus wouldn't help you to understand that; Genesis does, because you are reading about

your ancestor, a man called Adam and when you read about him it's like looking in

a mirror and seeing yourself. The Old Testament is built on the book of Genesis, there are

many references all the way through the Old Testament to people like Adam and Noah and

Abraham and Jacob who changed his name to Israel. The whole of the Old Testament builds

on the book of Genesis. But it's the New Testament that builds on it even more. Surprisingly,

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