Letters May 5, 1997 Issue

Letters

with contributions from Brook B. Ballard, Virginia Brown, Chris Juneau, Nancy Mangan

Bill Moyers's Genesis discussions [broadcast on PBS] stirred me deeply because of what seemed to signal futile struggles to account for the first book of the Bible without any anchor in God. It was so secular. I was very appreciative of the response of the Sentinel discussions.

Brook B. Ballard
Cave Creek, Arizona

My relationship with the Bible shifted forever when I learned about the two distinct creation stories in Genesis. I stopped viewing the Bible as a contradictory, confusing guide. I experienced a similar paradigm shift when the importance of these sentences from Science and Health hit me: "The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse typifies the divine method of warfare in Science, and the glorious results of this warfare. The following chapters depict the fatal effects of trying to meet error with error. The narrative follows the order used in Genesis. In Genesis, first the true method of creation is set forth and then the false. Here, also, the Revelator first exhibits the true warfare and then the false" (p. 568).

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