Are you trying to read your Bible and find it is hard to understand?
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No worries!
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There are some basics that will help. The first thing you need to know is that the Bible is Gods Word, Gods story, and a systematic reveal of who HE is one layer at a time. If you grasp some concept in the New Testament and fail to see it used in the old, it is because the people in the Old Testament had not been given that concept yet. God can not hold them to a standard that HE hasn't given them yet. That would be like a cop writing out tickets for laws that haven't been written yet.
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So, with this nugget of truth in mind, it is easy to see how our own path to understanding the things of God will route us through the Old Testament because it forms a foundation and a framework that we need to build upon to have the right understanding of the deeper things found in the New Testament.
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That said, Genesis is the fundamental foundation for every doctrine of the faith. It all starts here. Every key concept has its beginning right there in Genesis. And why not? The best way to understand our place in this world, is to look at how it all got started.
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Yes. The book of Genesis starts us off with the cosmic answers to How it all started. But to be fair, we won't get any clues as to Why God did this Earth thing until we have ventured much further in.
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One final note for this basic intro.. Everything about God can be likened to a wheel within a wheel. One point leads to another, leads to a third, fourth.. and so on until it all comes back around to your first point. Not unlike a wheel spinning around. Everything in scripture becomes gloriously connected to everything else. If you haven't already, at some point you will meet a person who is discovering these links for the first time. Their minds are bouncing from point to point like the little silver ball in a pen ball game. I hope that reference isn't too dated. While we may have difficulty understanding what they are talking about, rejoice with them because it is all coming together. Gods word makes perfect sense!
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