Of the Beginning of All Things - Introduction (2 of 2)

In which I discuss truth that matters before messing with the rest...

This is the third post in this series. Here is the first, my preamble. And the second, the first half of the Introduction. This third post is the latter half of the second. If this were a book we'd still be in the roman numerals, but not for long. Here end the 'but firsts'.

Therefore, the next post in this series will be like chapter 1, and like Trajan I will leave these romans behind and head to arabic lands. So here is the second half of the introduction...

After forty days God sends a wind over the Earth. In fact, this is no wind, but just as Christ returns from the grave, ascends to heaven and sends us his Holy Spirit, so does the Father returning send his Spirit again over the Earth. Ambrose says: "in fact the wind had no power to dry the deluge. Otherwise the sea, which is moved every day by the winds, would become empty. How would the sea become empty by the strength of the winds alone?...There is no doubt therefore, that the deluge was subsided by the invisible power of the Spirit, not through the wind as such but through divine intervention."

On the Beginning of All Things - Introduction (1 of 2)

In which I discuss truth that matters before messing with the rest...

This is the second post in this series. Here is the first, my preamble. 

Before I jump into logically laying out my thoughts about the intersection of reason and revelation in the book of Genesis, and this goes for both you and myself, please remember: whatever actually happened is important, but it is only useful to know if it tells us more about God. The important bits are not how we trace out our genetic inheritance from Adam and Eve, but knowing that the world has been condemned from the first sin, and that sin is our spiritual inheritance. We are condemned by sin to be apart from God.