This week’s readings actually did not interest me very much.  Yes, the content is interesting, but since my interests do not lie in science, I found myself a little more disengaged than usual.  This is not to say that I don’t appreciate what the Lord has given us; I love the beauty of the world.  However, the way I see it, God does not give us much detail in the creation story because it is not as important as other things.

the Bible is, at its core, a story.  A story about God’s relationship with us, a story of His love for us.  It is a real story, thus it will naturally have scientific implications.  But the Bible is not “a scientific treatise from which we can deduce Newton’s Laws … or the chemical structure of salt.”  The Bible was never intended to present us with scientific answers.  God is mostly concerned with the heart.  But for some, it is an exhilarating thing to connect instances and information in the Word with our modern sciences.

Lennox’s second chapter interested me the most in that he lengthily notes to the reader that the Bible is not literal all the time.  In addition, just as we speak in sort of pseudo-metaphors, the Bible does also.  Lennox mentions John 10:9 when Jesus states, “I am the door.”  Of course, anyone with a double-digit IQ can tell that Jesus was not an actual door.  However, the metaphor reveals the real truth that Jesus is the only “door” to heaven.  Lennox relates this to a modern sentence: “the car was flying down the road”.  Cars cannot fly (yet).  The real meaning behind the sentence is to express that the car is going incredibly fast.  Often times, Lennox states, people take the words of the Bible literally to discredit it as a myth of some sort.  As we touched on in class, in most cases it is quite clear when the Bible should be taken literally and when the passage should be read as a metaphor, an example, a parable, or poetry.  However, there is indeed some gray area–Revelation for instance–when it is difficult to pinpoint which event is literal and which is figurative.  The creation account may be the same way, which gives room for the 24-hour vs. non-24-hour creationist theories.  The non-24-hour theories are a little more believable to me because they seem to connect better with scientific findings.  Besides, time is a notion made by man; God exists outside of the forth dimension.

When it comes down to it, though, we may never know for sure when exactly creation happened.  Maybe we were never meant to?  In his sermon “Indescribable”, Louie Giglio shows his audience the wonders of the cosmos and the brilliant intricacies of the universe to display how majestic, creative, and intelligent God is.  I think that is what it was all made for: our enjoyment and for us to bask in the glory and wonder of God.  What happens when we finally know something we didn’t before?  Oftentimes, the wonder fades.  I don’t think I ever want to comprehend how exactly God put everything together.  It lets me wonder; it lets me marvel.