Genesis 1-2 Summary

Genesis 8 begins with the fact that God remembered Noah and those in the ark. The waters of the flood had served their purposes, the end of air breathing life on the earth. God was ready to prepare the earth for the reintroduction of life.

The theme for this writing is taken from the book of Genesis. The focus will be taken from an event that was recorded in chapter 12 of this book. The main charter was a man call Abram and his wife, Sarai. Because of deceit of Abram, driven by his fear of losing his life he chooses to be deceitful.This dishonest act caused someone else to sin this caused God not to be happy with the person than sin so a plague was caused by him. The act on one cause God to moved on others in a negative way.

Christians may disagree amongst themselves on how the universe and the earth were created, but the communal belief between the groups is that God created everything. The timeline and the process in which it was done are debated between the various groups of Christianity. In Genesis we discover that it takes God six days to create the earth, heaven, universe, and all the species found on Earth (Genesis 1-2). In the beginning God is introduced as the creator and he reins supreme over his creations. Later on in the Bible God’s attributes and characteristics are presented to the reader. In addition to being the creator he is also all knowing, enteral, loving, compassionate, forgiving, and good (Diffey, 2014,). In Christianity God is the Father and mankind is referred too as his flock. God enjoys walking with, conversing, and tending to his flock. God created

Genesis 1:1 is the first gospel in the Bible and begins by stating "In the beginning God created the heavens and earth" which; tells us that he is the creator of all things of which; are visible and invisible to humanity. God continues to sustain what he has created, however; does not depend on his creation to continue his own existence, although; humanity

The book of Genesis covers many topics. Creation is the theme of chapter one. In chapter two, God says that His creation is good. He then creates man from the dust and women from the man. Next is the Fall of Man, Eve is tempted by the serpent to eat of the tree God told them not to eat. Both, Eve and Adam end up eating of the fruit from the tree resulting in the punishments from God for all of mankind. Chapter four is about Cain and Abel. It also covers the first murder and first record of bigamy. It gives some lineage of Cain and also tells of Eve’s birth of Seth who replaced Abel. Chapter five is about the generations of Adam. Adam lived to be 930 years old. Chapters six through eight is about Noah building the Ark and the Flood. Chapter nine, God promises to never destroy the Earth with a flood again. The lineage of Noah is recorded in chapter ten. The confusion of languages of the people at the Tower of Babel and

Ralph does so in part by comparing and contrasting the differences between the Genesis 1:1-2:4 story of creation and the story of creation as it is written in the Enuma Elish (Brinkman, 2003, pp. 267-269). This Babylonian text shows a much different version of creation when compared with the bible story of the one God in the Old Testament. Whilst both of these stories had some slight similarities, such as the theory about the world being flat, one stark difference between them was that of how the earth and the heavens were created. In the Enuma Elish (Brinkman, 2003, pp. 267-269), there was a war between the gods, where one god slayed another and built the world out of the remains of the body whereas in Genesis 1:1-2:4 God created the world and in this creation account all things are brought about from a place of love and light. It is also discussed that during the creation of the world, the pinnacle of all of these achievements culminated with the creation of man in God's own image. In the Enuma Elish (Brinkman, 2003, pp. 267-269), the creation of man was brought about after the gods had been given tasks to perform within their pantheons. Rather than doing what it was that they were

This book has taught me far beyond what I expected, perhaps while reading this book I learned much more about the Genesis 1 account than I ever learned in my entire life. Miller and Soden might argue that my lack of study in this area is a result of being a group thinker rather than an individual thinker (30). Looking at both the Young Earth creationism (YEC) and the Old earth creationism (OEC) views for the first time, I realized that during my time at Moody Bible Institute I am really seeking to be challenged in my beliefs with by no means making it some kind of test for orthodoxy. Even though both the YEC and OEC views have strong arguments the aim of this essay is to demonstrate what I took away from this book which was written by two advocate of the OEC belief.

On the road of pursuing Bible and Christian world, the first step we need to know and accept is God’s creation. If we believe the biblical creation, we will believe everything in Christianity.

God knew the brethren of Jesus that were in Christ Jesus when He formed Jesus in the beginning, we were in the incorruptible seed of God just as Eve was in Adam.

In fact, the Book of Genesis, as a whole, gives us evidence of God’s interest in his people and how he is the vessel for miracles. The Book of Genesis can be broken into six major contexts: Creation (Gen 1-2), The Fall (Gen 3-4), Noah and the Flood (Gen 5-10), The Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9), and The Patriarchal Era (Gen 11:10-50). In each of these contexts falls the four theological categories of God, Man, Creation, and the World’s order or creation mandate. In Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, deemed the Creation section, the biggest idea in is God, and how he created our world.

Content- The creation of the world. God created the heavens and the earth. The passage relates to when God created the heavens and the earth. The passage relates to the earth was formless empty. The passage relates to how God created the earth from day to night and he separated the light from darkness. God separated water, made dry grounds that he call land. God produce vegetation. God created livestock and mankind. Adam and Eve was created. Men began to multiply on the face of the earth.

The Creation story, relates to the idea that the whole universe is brought into existence by God, who is beyond the universe. The bible explains to us that people have more than enough evidence about God's creation here on earth. “because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them . . . so that they are without excuse.” In the bible it gives us proof that God created the heavens and earth because it tells us: “By him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things,

The vivid story of the creation account found in Genesis 1 and 2 often gets lost in the question of “how” rather than the question of “why.” Desmond Alexander points out that the creation story “often hijacked by those who are almost exclusively preoccupied by the modern debate on the relationship between the biblical view of creation and that of contemporary science” (Alexander 119). Gary Schnittjer helps by adding, “Problems occur when readers use the scriptures to answer their own questions—questions that the biblical text was not designed to answer” (Schnittjer 1048). The creation story is not as much a detailed explanation of how the world was created, but rather a theological description of God’s purpose and relationship in creating humanity (Schnittjer 816). Even more, the Genesis account provides a means to interpret the rest of the “the story of which it is a part” (Schnittjer

It is a well-known fact that the Bible was written by multiple people who lived in in different times and places, and combined into one book. Because of the number of sources who were living under different circumstances and beliefs, the pages of the Bible are shrouded in small biases and language use that can be differentiated and picked apart in order to reveal traits of the multiple people telling the narratives that make up the most influential book to date. It’s quite interesting that it’s possible to separate sentences from each other and produce a number of slightly different accounts of the same story, especially because these stories are often told in tandem. The creation story in Genesis 1-3 reflects this idea, and it seems that there are two points in which

In the book of (Genesis 1) in the bible begins with the creation and recreation of the heaven and earth also known as the natural world. God created the heaven and earth to show forth his faith through his word and the love for all living things. In the book of (Genesis 1:1) in the bible states, “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. In addition to God creating the heaven and earth he saw where it was inform and that it did not sever a purpose. So he spoke