Earth, Fire & Sea: God's Story in Genesis

By R. Russell Bixler

Book Overview

How do you understand the first three verses of the Bible? Be careful- your answer may tell more than you realize! In this in-depth study, Russ Bixler critiques the popular theory that these verses... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560433426
• ISBN13: 9781560433422
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the most important christian books of the last 50 years

R. Russell Bixler took a great chance in publishing this book, when one takes the positions he did - especially with his high standing among "Professional Christianity" in the broadcasting business. Originally published 20 years ago. Bixler primarily deals with the Christian church's paradoxical misunderstanding of the bibles most "Scientific Book" - Genesis. Russel took the novel idea of actually studying what the actual text of Genesis says - and he had the God given temperament to not be afraid to shout out to the Christian church the truths he discovered. Reading this book made me feel like I wasn't alone in the desert anymore, but seeing its ranking - shows that there are still too few who have read this important book. If you are a Science minded individual, you will be happy to see that the ancient texts we call the bible - conform with proven science 100% of the time. Some in the church need to drop their silly dogmatic stance on our planet being less than 6-10,000 years old. I don't want to give a complete breakdown of the book as often is done, but just point out Russell Bixler's most important findings in dealing with Creation "ex nihilo". Especially revealing is the "Fact" that in the entire new testament Jesus always "created" miracles using existing matter. i.e. fishes, bread and wine - created from an existing small amount of like matter. Even when Christ brought sight to a blind man the "Logos" of the universe used some dust from the ground mixed it and placed it over the blind mans eyes. Adam too was made from this same dust - Eve was made from the genetic material from Adams rib and so on and so on - every miracle. Bixler does not claim that God does not create ex nihilo! only that in our story, in the biography of "our" planet earth - the matter from which "our" Earth was created was already in existence. Paradoxically, though our earth is relatively young, it is also very very old.....I leave you with one question, appropriately from the last book of the bible which teaches in conformance with the Judaic midrash traditions that God will wrap this age up and create a new "earth" from this existing one. Will that new earth be a young planet? or a very very old one? or paradoxically can it be both? God Bless You Russ Bixler 1927-2000