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Exodus 1:1-2:10

A Faithful God for Fearsome Times
There are two principal assumptions or experiences that we can bring to the Book of Exodus that may impact our understanding ... It speaks powerfully to the minds and hearts of anyone experiencing exploitation and injustice precisely because of its account of Israel’s liberation. ... It also addresses the tension many Christians feel between what we read in the Word of God and what we feel in our own human experience.
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Genesis 1:1–25

God Our Sovereign Creator
Whether it is a hardened atheist ... or an angst-ridden artist ... or in specifically religious contexts, we appear irresistibly drawn to spiritual questions that are personal and experiential in nature. And it is God, the Creator of our material and spiritual world, who confronts us in Genesis 1 and throughout this first book of the Bible.
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ

There is a wonderful clip dating from 1968 featuring J. R. R. Tolkien, author of what still seems widely regarded as the single greatest English-language novel. Tolkien talks about how the fiction unfolded, dismissing the suggestion that his masterpiece is an allegory of the nuclear bomb.
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The Resurrection of Jesus Christ Part II

‘The physical resurrection of Christ is not an isolated historical fact. It is inexhaustibly rich in meaning for Christ himself, for the church, and for the whole world.’ Certainly, the significance of Christ’s resurrection saturates every aspect of New Testament teaching. Its meaning may be presented in several ways.
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The Resurrection of Jesus Christ Part I

The texts of the New Testament claim that although Jesus was dead and buried on a Friday afternoon, early the following Sunday morning, roughly 36 hours later, his corpse had revived, and he had physically come to life again in a new unprecedented bodily form. Supporting this is substantial detailed historical evidence, including numerous first-hand eyewitnesses ‘who talked with a person whom they took to be Jesus, and witnesses who saw the empty tomb.’
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Sin and Death

The world we inhabit contains an endless array of contrasts. Every human life is born out of crisis, proceeds in conflict, and invariably ends with irreversible loss. Yet, there is astonishing goodness. Between the boundaries of birth and death, breath-taking wonder combines with utter misery, sublime beauty with callous cruelty. Ecstatic joy, deep satisfaction, and heart-capturing tenderness, are bound up with terrible agony. Life is far worse than we ever feared and much better than we dare dream.
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The Angels

The first sentence of the Bible explains that God created both ‘the heavens and the earth’. This indicates that the environment that we inhabit is twofold. God’s world is comprised of two parts. The physical universe – ‘earth’ – has a counterpart in the spiritual universe – ‘the heavens’. There are then two distinct dimensions of created reality, two interlocking spheres, directly connected in some respects and more indirectly linked in others.
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The Creation of the Universe

God’s life in himself is the fundamental condition of God’s work of creation. We start therefore with consideration of the identity and nature of the Creator, for biblical teaching about the act of creation grows out of what Scripture suggests about the perfect life of God. Clarity about the character of the Creator ensures that the relation between the Creator and his creatures is accurately represented.
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The Nature of Revelation

The Bible makes colossal claims to knowledge. Its teaching about revelation treats the reasons for these claims and addresses various questions regarding them. Is God known to humanity, and if so, how? What is the origin and nature of our knowledge of God? How do we know about God, and how do we know that we know? Revelation is the biblical notion which responds to these and other issues concerning the origin and basis of affirmations about God, ourselves, and all other creatures in relation to God.
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