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If something catches your eye, perhaps it is something God wants you to see. As you see many details, you may wish to come back to some of them. | If something catches your eye, perhaps it is something God wants you to see. As you see many details, you may wish to come back to some of them. | ||
:Learn to distinguish between legitimate questions and mere curiosity. A legitimate question concerns solving the riddles and mysteries of the Bible making the invisible God known. They lead to deeper study. | |||
Mere curiosity leads to idle disputes; purposeless debates containing less and less focus. | |||
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{{1c| '''Look for patterns''' | {{1c| '''Look for patterns''' | ||
There are patterns which help with interpretation and those which help with doctrine. Numbers help with interpretation: | |||
Two things together represent the same thing from two sides. Example: "God created the heavens and the earth." <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:1 }} In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</ref> here is one creation with two parts. "Milk and honey" <ref>{{bgw| Ex 3:8 }} And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.</ref> represent the blessings of God in the spirit and flesh. "Soul and Spirit" <ref>{{bgw| Heb 4:12 }} For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</ref> : 'Soul also means 'waxing pale' as if it is dying. The Spirit gives life. | Two things together represent the same thing from two sides. Example: "God created the heavens and the earth." <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:1 }} In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</ref> here is one creation with two parts. "Milk and honey" <ref>{{bgw| Ex 3:8 }} And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.</ref> represent the blessings of God in the spirit and flesh. "Soul and Spirit" <ref>{{bgw| Heb 4:12 }} For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</ref> : 'Soul also means 'waxing pale' as if it is dying. The Spirit gives life. | ||
The first account of Genesis is written in a literary pattern of ABCDABCDA. This helps discern the pericope of the passage. It also forms a doctrinal pattern with the ten commandments. Ten times "God said" in a way which is later mirrored by the tablets of the law. The first set of ten are the commandments which displayed God's nature as creator, | |||
the second display his nature to a rebellious mankind. | |||
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{{1c| '''Fractal expansion''' | {{1c| '''Fractal expansion''' | ||
