Genesis 1 is one of the most amazing pieces of literature I've
ever read. It's aesthetically lovely, delicately and perfectly
balanced. The prose is full of poetic language and structured
repetition. It's rich with both symbolic and numeric
significance. It stands up to rigid academic analysis.
And it appeals to preschoolers. With its simple elegance, its
repeated phrases, and its pairs of opposites, light, dark, high,
low, wet, dry... it quickly lodges in their impressionable little
memories.
Fitting indeed that there be something of this magnitude to draw
all eyes to the beginning of the Great Story...
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