FACING THE DARK SIDE OF GENESIS: A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES claims that religious thinkers have overlooked a crucial aspect of the truth: God's creating act is necessarily interpersonal and immediately causes perfect creatures only. These persons, both angelic and human, necessarily respond instantly with full freedom. The new interpretation for understanding better who we are--and who we are not--integrates and deepens traditional belief in God. Attention is given to the profoundly unconscious dimensions of the mind and heart, largely neglected, that emerge from the spiritual structure of being. This new theistic worldview suggests an expanded ground for understanding the conflict between creationists and evolutionists. The author discloses a general failure of theology to see the difference between creation absolutely out of nothing and the redemptive creation out of something that is fallen, as depicted in GENESIS.

Facing the Dark Side of GENESIS: A New Understanding of Ourselves

Joyce Ph.D., Robert E

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A challenge to all believers in God to raise their awareness of the power and beauty of their own being at creation and their failure to be perfect as they were gifted to be. In creation, God's act of gifting us with being yields a perfect created person, but we humans on earth are those who responded immediately with less than a perfect yes to the gift of being. The book calls for a significant shift in the worldview of God-centered people. The story of Adam and Eve is told in a provocative way that may make more sense than creationists and evolutionists could ever do. Creation out of nothing is radically distinguished from creation out of something, such as dust, a rib, a fall.

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