Sometimes, as a pastor, you notice the reaction to things that you're saying. Sometimes you know when you say something, that people are processing something that isn't jiving. I had that experience this morning.
It relates to the Genesis passage on creation. Genesis contains two (2) accounts of creation. Check it out Genesis 1 and 2 both contain different accounts of creation. What many people fail to note is that Genesis 1 is a poem. Look at your Bible sometime and notice how chapter 1 is indented. That indentation is because it is a poem. And like poems it speaks in literary form, not literal function. For instance, it uses repetition (very prominent tool in Hebrew poetry). By outlining day one = light; day two = sea; day three = land and the same pattern is repeated in day 5,6, and 7. It is a memory tool for Hebrew children. Now, I know many Christians who don't realize that about the passage, and an equal ratio of pastors who don't know that either, but I think if you examine the text you'll find it that way.
I mentioned that this morning and some people I could tell, hadn't heard it before. I passed over it so quickly that I thought I might come on the blog and explain myself further, before I'm accused of heresy.
--Ben
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