Genesis One: God Sets the Stage celebrates what God has done in creating a stage for our human drama. And it shows that life on the stage, the lives we live, operates by different rules than those that apply to the theater, the realm of science. Both creationists and evolutionists have had trouble understanding this. This book challenges both the conventional views of Genesis One and the scientific worldview—all without footnotes. It is a “different idea” book presented in a way that is meant to be persuasive rather than simply an addition to all the arguments over the origins of things. If you believe in God, Genesis One: God Sets the Stage will reinforce that belief and persuade you that believing in creation is a reasonable thing to do.

In this astute mix of cultural critique and biblical studies, John H. Walton presents and defends twenty propositions supporting a literary and theological understanding of Genesis 1 within the context of the ancient Near Eastern world and unpacks its implications for our modern scientific understanding of origins.

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