Quotes About Genesis

There's a wonderful book, Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero, which cites a poll that half of Americans can't name Genesis as the first book of the Bible. This is part of the dumbing down of our culture. One of those books that 50 percent of Americans apparently aren't reading is the Bible, or they would know that Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It's sort of like, "I don't know what Genesis is, but I believe it.

This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not. This is like this, because that is like that." This is the Buddhist teaching of Genesis.

The very beginning.

We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around.

There are many ways to tell the history of the world. Oral histories that were later written down, including the Book of Genesis, the Rig Veda, and the Popul Vuh, focused especially on the actions of gods and on human/divine interactions. The

It was a world as old as Time, but as new as Creation's hour had left it.

The LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. Genesis 2:7

She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up. Genesis 24:16

The beginning is the most important part of the work. —Plato

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

The first hint of the Gospel comes from Genesis 3:15, this is the first promise of salvation.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

That we have iodine in our thyroid glands proves that our bodies were fashioned from supernova material. The iron in our blood came from the cores of two previous star generations. The Sun gives off a bit of peculiar yellow light from fluorescing sodium vapor, an element inherited from its father, the type O or B blue star.

The ideas of things precede and lead to their creation.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

En el principio era el Verbo y en el final el lugar común.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

On the first day, man created God

No the first day, man crea tee God

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation.

Así comenzó todo: unos simios corrientes asomándose sobre la hierba.