ThinkChristian: Genesis is different

One of the neatest Christian blogs is ThinkChristian.net. They've got a number of contributors over there who must surf a lot and find all sorts of inspiring or thought-provoking things.

Anyways, they have a recent blog entry called "Genesis is different". It is a link over to a guy who briefly compares the creation account in Genesis with other ancient creation stories, and the differences are important. The main thing the author brings out is that Genesis doesn't exalt any one particular race or city, as most ancient creation accounts seem to do.

This reminds me of what Craig Smith, a Native American Christian who now witnesses to other Native Americans, likes to tell people. He tells people that he's from the Ojibwa tribe, the name of his tribe means "THE people". His wife is Navajo and Navajo (in that language) means "THE people". And apparently almost every tribe's name for themselves means that. A natural human tendency is to glorify our tribe.

But again we see God's truth reflected in Genesis: a creation story that glorifies nobody -- except God Himself.

He alone is worthy.