Biblical Symbolism 🗺️

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth

Unlike modern science, traditional cosmology did not attempt to describe reality in terms of atoms, energy, and mechanical causality. Instead, most ancient cultures perceived the world in terms of spiritual principles such as angels, demons, and mysterious sea monsters at the edge of the world. So before attempting to interpret a book like Genesis, it is important to understand why our current worldview is so different from that of the past

Spiritual Perspective	Material Perspective
What does it mean?	How does it work?
What truth does it embody?	What material is it made of?

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Concepts

• Our Creator
• Heaven and Earth
• Time and Space
• Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad (TKGB)

Footnotes

1. Pageau, Matthieu (May 29, 2018). The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis: A Commentary. ch 1 ↩