Genesis Essay

God promised Abram three promises which the narrator repeated several times. It is important to know to understand the rest of the bible. The first promise was that Arbam would have a great nation. The second promise to Abram was that the lad he was standing on would be for him and his people and family. The final promise was that God would bless the whole earth through one of his descendants. God created a covenant with Abram and renamed him Abraham. This was a patron covenant. It is a covenant that solely depends on God and does not rely on others.

Based on biblical knowledge, life on earth began in approximately 5.000 B.C. In the bible when you read Genesis 1, it is called “The Beginning.” The very first verse in the bible says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” As you read further along into Genesis, we are told that God created water, light, day and night, animals, and humans. In Genesis 1:27, it says, “So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” All of God’s creations were made over a span of 6 days. In the beginning, God created the first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve. Adam and Eve were created for specific purposes and were the only Humans. Life on earth was simple. God gave Adam

Who made who? Did God create humans or did humans create god? At first thought one

If ten bystanders were to witness the same crime, how many different interpretations of the scene would there be? All the opinions and viewpoints that arise from one scenario are very dependant on different variables. The same can be applied when analyzing the book of Genesis. One controversial topic is whether to take it literally or figuratively. Some of the different arguments supporting and opposing either side include; the original beliefs of the interpreter, the historical time frame, the different genres of writing in the book, and more. There are many perceptions of the book of Genesis being literal or figurative.

“The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the lord said, ‘I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created-people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.’ But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.”(Genesis 6:5-8)

There was only water and bare, empty land. In the center of this nothingness was a great mountain. This mountain stood tall and proud and it reached all the way into the heavens. At the very top of this mountain lived a pair of every kind of animal. In the center of this heaven grew a tree. This tree was not just any tree, it was the sacred tree of life, and it was not to be harmed in any way.

Because of a new arrangement that was established between Abram and God, the nation of Israel begins to grow and to move forward in their relationship.

Abraham’s response to God’s promises were obedience (4-6) and confirmation (v. 7). In Genesis 15 the writer states that the Lord took upon Himself alone the responsibility for fulfilling the covenant. Genesis 17 adds the revelation that the covenant would be everlasting. One cannot research the Covenant and not about the narrative of Abram’s life.

3. The Lord threatens the Egyptian people that he will smite or whip there fist-born child until they are dead unless they free the Israelites. The Israelites represent the hebrew slaves.

Moving on, from what Richter named the barrier (people, time, and space), chapter three contains the outworking of God through the five men discussed before. As she states, “the biblical writers consciously organized their material in a systematic fashion in order to communicate certain central truths.” The author briefly details the aspects of the covenants within the Old Testament surrounding Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David. Taking, in turn, each of them and expositing them in a way that shows the redemptive story that is taking place. “For each of these characters was called to mediate a covenant between God and humanity”. Tying into the culture of the people, God used the fallen and difficult Israelite culture to set up his redemptive plan the would show to be faithful, even to a faithless people.

accept his offering for it was all that he had and did not know how to

In this essay I will analyze and differentiate two completely contrasting legacies left behind by Cain and Seth, the descendants of Adam and Eve. Reflecting on the point in time where Eve appointed eponyms for her children, their very names conceptualized a foreshadowing of this apparent contrast. In Hebrew, Cain means ‘spear' and Seth means ‘anointed’ or ‘granted’ a name that alludes to Eve’s utterance found in Genesis 4:25, “God has granted me another child in the place of Abel since Cain killed him”. This sets the tone of the significant dissimilarity of their character later distinguished in the narrative of Genesis. Cain was the primary exploitation for murder, and not only the act of killing, but that of his beloved brother. (Genesis 4:11-16) And in the midst of his child Enoch being born, Cain was developing the world’s first advanced civilized society. (Genesis 4:17) Contrasting, Seth was the third son of

On the second day God creates the sky, which is described as separating ‘the waters above from the waters below' and the sky is named heaven

We all know that our mothers and fathers gave us birth, and grandmothers and grandfathers gave our parents birth. However, what about the beginning? What does the beginning look like? Who created the sky, the earth, the mountains and rivers, the plants, the animals, and the human beings? How was the world created? What happened to the creator? These questions have puzzled and are asked by every people. However, no one has yet found the answers, and I have heard people saying that the creation of life is as impossible as the natural creation of an airplane from a stack of waste. With the willingness of knowing the self, ancient people tried to create mythological stories

Moreover, Sarai is the living symbol, at this point, of God's promise to Abraham. If Abraham is to be "the father of many nations," his barren wife must conceive and bear him a son. The classic theological interpretation fails to address the question of why Abram gives away the living embodiment of God's word, if he has accepted God's promise. The fact that this is not an act of an obedient and faithful Abram is clearly outlined in the subsequent event: "And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife"