We are taking time with the first five verses of Genesis. You can join Roger Ferguson and Yu Song as they read the words before racing to a conclusion.
Genesis opens with God creating, the Spirit, speech, and light. Roger and Yu compare ways readers have understood those lines across Jewish and Christian traditions and follow the language into John 1. They distinguish the passage itself from later interpretation and Roger’s own proposals.
The conversation gives us room to ask careful questions while returning to the text. You need not settle every interpretive question before beginning. Read Genesis 1:1–5, then John 1:1–5, marking what each text actually says about light.
