Exhibition
Play Scene 1
Creation | Fall | People of God
Narrated by Pio Mulipola
Key scriptures
Creation and Fall: Genesis 1 – 3
The covenant with Abraham: Genesis 12:1 – 3
I te tīmatanga te Kupu, i te Atua te Kupu, ko te Atua anō te Kupu.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
The Spirit of God hovers over the world, speaking creation into being. The story of the Bible begins. Korimako welcomes the dawn, the beginning, an invitation to draw into the story, accentuated by the words found in John 1.
God orders his world, separating light from dark, sky from sea, and land from the waters. Sun and stars, birds and fish, plants and animals fill creation.
Into the garden at the heart of this good creation, God creates man and woman. Taking their steps as the first children of God, they find their place and purpose.
The Southern Cross embedded in the night sky not only points to our place within creation, but also to the final purpose of Scripture – God delighting to reveal himself in Jesus.
Room 131. Waka arrives on land. It’s stern carries koru, facing forward and back, carrying our past into the present, and promise for the future. Toroa glides over the waves, as the dove, leading us to the shore. The voice of God ripples through creation.
The flourishing of flora welcomes us, yet the fruit of the tree entices the clutch of woman and man, fragmenting, disorientating. Reflecting representations by Masaccio, Michaelangelo, Blake, and many others, we see Adam and Eve cast out from the garden. Sin having entered the world, the cost is revealed.
Ko Te Paipera Tō Mātou Kōrero Matua.
The Bible Is Our Story.
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