Seven Days that Divide the World, 10th Anniversary Edition
The Beginning According to Genesis and Science
John C. Lennox
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Seven Days that Divide the World, 10th Anniversary Edition
The Beginning According to Genesis and Science
John C. Lennox
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Now revised and updated--John Lennox's acclaimed method of reading and interpreting the first chapters of Genesis without discounting either science or Scripture.
What did the writer of Genesis mean by "the first day?" Are the seven days in Genesis 1 a literal week or a series of time periods? If I believe that the earth is 4.5 billion years old as cosmologists believe, am I denying the authority of Scripture?
With examples from history, a brief but thorough exploration of the major interpretations, and a look into the particular significance of the creation of human beings, Lennox suggests that Christians can heed modern scientific knowledge while staying faithful to the biblical narrative. He moves beyond a simple response to the controversy, insisting that Genesis teaches us far more about the God of Jesus Christ and about God's intention for creation than it does about the age of the earth.
With this book, Lennox offers a careful and accessible introduction to a scientifically-savvy, theologically-astute, and Scripturally faithful interpretation of Genesis.
Since its publication in 2011, this book has enabled many readers to see that the major controversy with which it engages can be resolved without compromising commitment to the authority of Scripture. In this newly revised and expanded edition, John clarifies his arguments, responds to comments and critiques of the past decade since its first publication. In particular, he describes some of the history up to modern times of Jewish scholarly interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative as well as spelling out in more detail the breadth of views in the Great Tradition of interpretation due to the early Church Fathers. He shows that, contrary to what many people think, much of the difficulty with understanding the biblical texts does not arise from modern science but from attempting to elucidate the texts in their own right.
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CHAPTER 1
BUT DOES IT MOVE?
A Lesson from History
Tremble before him, all the earth;yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.1 Chronicles 16:30
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.Psalm 93:1
He set the earth on its foundations,so that it should never be moved.Psalm 104:5
For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s,and on them he has set the world.1 Samuel 2:8
In them he has set a tent for the sun,which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.Its rising is from the end of the heavens,and its circuit to the end of them,and there is nothing hidden from its heat.Psalm 19:4–6
The sun rises, and the sun goes down,and hastens to the place where it rises.Ecclesiastes 1:5
There is talk of a new astrologer who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky, the sun, the moon, just as if somebody . . . moving in a carriage or ship might hold that he was sitting still and at rest while the earth and the trees walked and moved. But that is how things are nowadays: when a man wishes to be clever he must . . . invent something special, and the way he does it must needs be the best! The fool wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside-down. However, as Holy Scripture tells us, so did Joshua bid the sun to stand still and not the earth.3
He was a fundamentally proud man, with an inflated idea of his own importance. He was dismissive not only of the ignorant, but of Tycho [Brahe] (as verbose) and even [Johannes] Kepler (as what we might call a ‘luney’ because he believed the moon caused the tides). Galileo worsened with age – though recurrent illness and a painful hernia may partly explain this. The Starry Messenger and Letters on Sunspots were fairly polite, The Assayer was largely an outburst of unjustified conceit with little of value in it, and his first Dialogue treated all opponents (and his friend the Pope) as idiots. His treatment of various Jesuits (particularly [Christoph] Scheiner and [Orazio] Grassi) and Urban VIII probably deserved much greater enmity than he actually received. Other friends could only look on as good prudent advice was ignored and Galileo painted himself (and his church) into a corner.How should we view the “ ‘trial’? As [Arthur] Koestler said in his classic book [The Sleepwalkers], we cannot see it as a kind of “showdown” between enlightened reason and blind faith. Galileo himself never wavered in his Catholic faith; he was advocating science which was at least twenty-four years out of date and had no proof at all that the Earth moved apart from a bogus one which contradicted his own dynamics.9