In the book of GENESIS we are concerned with the description of THE BEGINNING. That is the time before 2,100BC when GOD and ABRAHAM had their famous discourse.
And so: In the beginning GOD created THE HEAVENS and THE EARTH. Now THE EARTH was formless and empty. WHOA! EMERGENCY STOP. Say that again! THE EARTH was formless and empty. That's right. But how did you know that? How did you know about the Earth being formless and empty? Well somebody told us. Yes, who? Erm..God? So, what did he say exactly? Well, basically it went something like this:
And GOD said Let there be LIGHT
And GOD said Let there be an expanse of WATERS
And GOD said Let dry GROUND appear
And GOD said Let the LAND produce VEGETATION
And GOD said Let the WATERS teem with LIVING CREATURES
And GOD said Let BIRDS fly
And GOD said Let THE LAND produce LIVING CREATURES and WILD ANIMALS
And GOD said Let us make MAN in OUR OWN IMAGE
Wow! That's pretty good. The basic sequence in the right order. But hang on. This text is more than 4,000 years old. Oh, it's much older. People knew it before it was written down. Before they could even write, so to speak.
So who was this GOD who went around imparting this information? And where did he come from?
4,000 YEARS AGO THE WORLD'S LARGEST PREHISTORIC MINE IN WALES' GREAT ORME MOUNTAIN WAS MINED ON 9 LEVELS
