FACING THE DARK SIDE OF GENESIS: A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES claims that religious thinkers have overlooked a crucial aspect of the truth: God's creating act is necessarily interpersonal and immediately causes perfect creatures only. These persons, both angelic and human, necessarily respond instantly with full freedom. The new interpretation for understanding better who we are--and who we are not--integrates and deepens traditional belief in God. Attention is given to the profoundly unconscious dimensions of the mind and heart, largely neglected, that emerge from the spiritual structure...

A new understanding of creation and of ourselves. A PERFECT CREATION challenges both creationists and theistic evolutionists to look deeper into the infinite intimacy of God in gifting us to BE. We are called to acknowledge our hidden failure of personal gratitude for our own be-ing. We are seen to be not the only cause of darkness, pain, and evil in our lives, but the ultimate cause. We have spiritually repressed our absolute origin in God and have confused our coming to be in cosmic creation with our originative creation out of nothing. The Book of GENESIS and the rest of the Bible deal...

A challenge to all believers in God to raise their awareness of the power and beauty of their own being at creation and their failure to be perfect as they were gifted to be. In creation, God's act of gifting us with being yields a perfect created person, but we humans on earth are those who responded immediately with less than a perfect yes to the gift of being. The book calls for a significant shift in the worldview of God-centered people. The story of Adam and Eve is told in a provocative way that may make more sense than creationists and evolutionists could ever do. Creation out of...