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Okay, so as you may have noticed,

what we have on our play for this weekend

is quite a substantial subject matter.

Creation in the fall, as you may have noticed,

in any program for theological instruction,

creation, the fall, redemption,

any one of those could very easily require its own course.

So we're not going to be able to entertain every question that has been entertained on any of these subject matters,

but hopefully we'll be able to talk about the key points so that if questions arise in your mind,

you'll have the opportunity to ask those questions, and we'll have an opportunity to address them,

at least in some coherent way.

So as you see, number one there, we begin with a very basic philosophical question

put by the early 20th century German thinker, Marcin Heidegger.

Why is there something and not nothing?

Notice that Heidegger is not famous as a theologian.

He's a philosopher.

That's a philosophical question.

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