Genesis 11: 1-9 Analysis

There are many different ways to interpret Genesis. On the first verse, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” there are two main interpretations. One interpretation is that the verse is a summary of the entire Genesis account. The second interpretation represents God’s first creative act. In order to discover which interpretation of Genesis I believe is correct, I had to keep reading. In Genesis 1:2 the verse starts with “and” which tells me that Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 are part of one contiguous thought.

     In this essay I will take an interpretive look at Genesis chapters 5-9. The main focuses will be: the relationship between God, Noah, and Noah’s generation of mankind; the barriers and boundaries for

Ever since the tower of Babel, people have endeavored to find a way to unite all humankind. In Genesis 11, the reason the world wished to stay united was to build a tower to heaven and defy God's command to fill the earth. Because of their disobedience, the Lord confused the languages of the workers so that they began to babble to one another. More recently, Mark Johnson has attempted to unite the world through music. As is indicated in several places throughout Johnson's interview with Bill Moyer's, Johnson's theme is that music changes lives by uniting people in song.

Robert states in chapter one that “Genesis 1-2, the first two chapters of the bible show us God’s original, perfect creation” (27). In this chapter he goes into depth about the creation of the world. Roberts gives us four truths about creation.

The rabbinic approach is the rabbis and religious people’s point of view on a story. Studying the rabbinic approach can add to the understanding of Genesis 11:1-9 because rabbis compare texts to other texts in the Tanakh or verses of a text. They look for the similarities to help us interpret the story. This makes us compare characters or words said throughout the story. This helps us understand the text better. For example, the rabbinic approach compares Genesis 11:4 with Genesis 11:2. the people built the tower to show independence from G!d and show they didn't need g!d anymore. The rabbinic approach gets this interpretation from Genesis 11:3. This relates to Genesis 4 “Come let us build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the skies.” They wanted to build the tower themselves to how independence as the rabbinic approach points out. They thought that they didn't need G!D anymore and building this successfully would prove that. But they did need G!d everyone needs G!D. The rabbinic approach says Building the tower to show independence is bad because they didn't any longer worship and except g!D. Everyone needs G!d and the fact that they thought they didn't need G!D was bad because he is above us. This part of the rabbinic approach will help us understand the story because it is a very helpful fact to know in understanding the text when it. The lesson this part of the rabbinic approach teaches us to be loyal and respect G!d as our G!D. In addition, we should

Many Christian scholars believe that the primeval Bible history is not a historical truth, but a story that is present in the Bible to convey spiritual truths. People may think that Genesis 1-11 should be read literally, denying all its metaphorical or symbolic language. However, this biblical stories primary importance lies not in its historical value (science make that claim extremely controversial) this are stories of tremendous importance because they set forth great affirmations about God, Humankind, and the World: “these biblical statements need to be assessed on some basis other than historical correspondence or accuracy.” If we read the biblical story of Genesis as God’s word, that is superior to human reasoning attempts to interpret it; we miss its spiritual message.

Throughout this section we learned about Genesis 1-11 and what it teaches regarding the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization. Learning about these different chapters and topics can really shape and define your Biblical worldview. Before college most of us didn’t have much of a worldview other than what our parents believe. These topics affect and shape our own personal worldview.

Chuck Swindol said, “Whatever else may be said about the home, it is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out. It is the place where life’s bills come due, the single most influential force in our earthly existence.”

The healing of the impotent man on the Sabbath proved to the turning point of the Jewish authority’s wrath towards Jesus. While Genesis 2:2-3 teaches that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jewish rabbis agreed that God continually upheld the universe, yet without breaking the Sabbath. If God was above Sabbath regulations, so was Jesus (Matthew 12). His enemies charged him not only with sabbath-breaking, but blasphemy, in calling God his own Father, and identifying his equality with God in nature. Jesus begins to refute their accusations as he states, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” (John 5:17). All things have been committed to the Son. Anyone who does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

Genesis 1:1 reads, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). If I never had access to any books and could only learn or know about the universe through what I observe with my own eyes, there would be a few things that I would be able to learn from reading Genesis 1:1.

The differences between the two stories is Genesis 1:11, God is creating vegetation on the third day. Genesis 2:5 before the creation of man “no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and no there was no man to work the ground.” In Genesis 1 God created water. God created woman in his image. God created Earth before sun and moon. In Genesis 2 Man was created before animals. Adam created then trees then Eve. Water came from the ground. Woman created from Adam’s rib.

According to (Harris, 2014), there are many prominent figures mentioned in Hebrews chapter 11, including Abel, Enoch, Abrahams’ wife Sarah, and Rahab; this cast of believers, the author felt, showed true belief in Christ and loyalty to God in a time where there might have been little hope for them. Faith was a very hard job at that time, and those with hope of God’s glory were doing so on completely blind faith in something they never witnessed with their eyes. Through blind faith, Abel offered a better sacrifice over Cain’s, Enoch set examples for others by walking and living for God (MacArthur, 1972). Sarah learned to trust fully in God when He promised her a son and lastly, Ragar, a Canaanite prostitute, seemed to show her faith by harboring

He knew that the building of this tower would only cause more problems. God wanted everyone to spread out so they could start new civilizations and create more diversity among the people. God knew this would be a good thing for everyone. At the time of building the tower, everyone spoke one language. They could all understand each other. God says in Genesis 11:6, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” So, instead of letting the people continue to build the tower, continue to communicate and think up even more ways that they would “make a name for themselves”, God confused their language. They would no longer speak the same language. God decided this would be the best and most effective way to get the people to spread out among the earth. Since they didn’t all understand each other, they couldn’t finish building the Tower of Babel. So, they all got into groups by language. They got into groups of people that spoke the same language, that could understand each other, and they spread out as God had intended them to do in the first place.

The book of Genesis is often referred to as the book of beginnings. Genesis is the first book that begins the Old Testament, it is also the first book of the entire Bible. The Lord also began the world in the book of Genesis, He made the heavens and the earth, man and woman. In Genesis chapters one through eleven, the Bible teaches us stories that most of us have grown up hearing in Sunday School such as the creation account, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood and the tower of Babel. In this book of beginnings, we are shown some of Gods characteristics; we see that God is love and He showed His love by creating us and the world, on the other extreme, we also see the wrath of God. Through these teachings, we are able to see that God ultimately in control and holds everything in His balance. The stories of Genesis aren’t just stories; they are real life accounts that can help build and shape a worldview on things regarding the natural world, human identity, human relationships and civilization.

Whilst P is the author of Genesis 1, Genesis 2 has been tied to J and differs significantly in its tone and focus. J writes almost as if it is a fairytale and where the P account focuses on the origin of the world with the creation of mankind as its climax, J “begins with Gods creation of the man, and describes how subsequently God builds up a world for his