Hey Google: What is God’s story?

“God’s Story: From Creation to Eternity is an 80-minute overview of the Bible. This audio and visual metanarrative provides a panoramic view of God’s plan to rescue fallen humankind. God’s Story lays a powerful foundation for understanding the reason for and need of a Savior.”

Wow, everything I need to know in just 80 minutes.Thanks google.

Hey Google” What is my wife thinking?

“I’m sorry, I don’t understand.”

AI Grok on “X”; What is my wife thinking?

“She’s probably thinking one (or more) of these, ranked by real-world probability:

“What should we eat for dinner / why hasn’t he decided yet?”

“Did he notice I got my hair/nails/whatever done?”

“A detailed mental replay of something you said three days ago that you’ve completely forgotten about.”

“(If every time someone half-jokingly asked “what’s my wife thinking?” the only acceptable response was “go ask her,” the internet would be a much quieter and far less amusing place.)”

That is the point in all this. God is silent if you don’t ask Him. The bible isn’t a place for amusement. It is God’s way of speaking to us. I would be the first to admit that Deuteronomy and Numbers are tough reads. Everything in the bible is written with purpose and if it does not seem to be a piece of the puzzle that you can place, set it aside and come back later. That is what you do with any tough puzzle. But you do need to revisit those parts.

Being in the Word is not an 80 minute video.

John 8:31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,”

Luke 6:47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:

The scriptures are there to show us who we are and what we can be if we just believe and obey.

Every ugly behavior that God detests is written so that we can see our own bad behavior and repent and change the way we behave. We will not discover that if we don’t read the bible cover to cover, over and over again. “Repetition is the price of knowledge.” – Dr. Keith Lamb

Genesis 1 English Standard Version

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

When we begin to put a puzzle together we look for straight edges and four corners. Placing those together tells us the borders of the puzzle. Everything needs to fit inside those limits.

When man first crawled out of a cave at night and looked up at the stars, I have no idea what he was thinking. I have my own thoughts and concerns. They were not his thoughts and my imagination is all I have to reason out what his environment might have been like.

My imagination says he had larger concerns than what those stars were and what they meant. Food, water, and survival would have been my major concerns. That is what I would do if I was in his shoes.

Archiologist’s digs provide us with evidence of past lives and they piece together some of the artifacts of life back then. What they don’t discover is what those people were thinking. For they  have to rely on crude pictures or even writings in unknown languages. All that would have come much later. Even so, they would fill in much of the gaps with their own conclusions. They would document their findings and publish them so that we would not have to do the work ourselves.

While evidence suggests early humans first recorded zodiac constellations in the prehistoric past, the Western concept of the zodiac originated in ancient Mesopotamia and was refined by the Greeks and Romans. Other cultures, such as the Mayans and Chinese, also developed their own zodiacs. Source provided by Google search. 

Yes, I googled it. How lazy of me. This is where we are today. The assumption is made that prehistoric man left evidence of the Zodiac. Let us begin with that very statement. Hello, it was prehistoric, there was no history to discover. The very meaning of history is His Story.

When we start putting together this puzzle of what God has done and why we discover that God spoke to man directly and gave Moses the words He chose to communicate with us. It is His Story.

What are the borders? Where do all the pieces fit jointly together?

Lucky us. We can google it. So let us ask Google, the results are from simplythehisotry.org.

“God’s Story: From Creation to Eternity is an 80-minute overview of the Bible. This audio and visual metanarrative provides a panoramic view of God’s plan to rescue fallen humankind. God’s Story lays a powerful foundation for understanding the reason for and need of a Savior.”