In chapter one of Genesis, the author tells the story of how our world began-heaven and earth, light and darkness, grass and herb, sea creature, winged creatures, beasts of the earth, and lastly humankind. "And God saw that it was good," says the author. In fact, seven times the phrase "it was good" appears in the opening section of the Bible. What is God seeing and feeling when he says this? That was the question we wrestled with last week in our Woodstock Buddhist Bible Study group: What does God mean by "good"? "How we define good as human beings is our perceptual frame for reality," observes Clark. "But that frame is necessarily quite small in comparison to all that is, and so there's the need here, at the very beginning of the Bible, to break it open and get as big a picture of reality as we can."
"And God Saw That It Was Good"
Buddhist Bible Study
March 21, 2009
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