God 's Fourth Speech With Noah

Furthermore, the history of the covenants is gone into in more depth. He continues with the story of Cain giving into the deadly sin of envy on his way to kill his own brother. God declared that Noah is also a major covenant and that

     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

This paper, is an in depth comparison of the similarities and differences between the Bible characters Adam and Noah. Furthermore, this paper will examine the lives of both men as well as God’s influence in their lives. In addition, this will allow the reader to come to the conclusion that Noah is “A Second Creation”, a new beginning of mankind.

‘I now establish My covenant with you and your offspring to come, and with every living thing that is with you. – birds, cattle, and every wild beast as well – all that have come out of the ark, every living thing on earth. I will maintain My covenant with you: never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”(Genesis pg. 174) This is Gods way of letting Noah know that he will never again flood the earth again.

The Hebrew Flood story of Noah and his obligation to preserve man kind after God had punished all living creatures for their inequities parallels The Epic of Gilgamesh in several ways. Even though these two compilations are passed on orally at different times in history the similarities and differences invoke deliberation when these stories are compared. Numerous underlining themes are illustrated throughout each story. Humans are guilty of transgressions and must be punished, God or Gods send a flood as punishment to destroy this evil race, a person is selected by the gods to build a craft that will withstand the flood and allow this person to create a new race. An

Theologically, a covenant (used of relations between God and man) denotes a gracious undertaking entered into by God for the benefit and blessing of humanity and specifically of those who by faith receive the promises and commit themselves to the obligation which this undertaking involves. The Abrahamic Covenant is an unconditional covenant. God made

In “Genesis” there is another story within it, I had read called Noah’s Ark. As everyone knows or should know that in Noah’s Ark there was a flood. God has seen and had noticed how chaotic and wicked everything was. What God wanted to do was erase any sort of life on what we call Earth. His purpose was not to destroy human life, but wipe take out the all the sin. In the midst of it all there was one man, Noah, among them all that God had

Many people know Noah but many don’t know Utnapishtim. Both of them survived the same great flood but each is told differently. Telling the purpose of the flood, how long the flood lasted, and the reaction of God/gods. This will the differences of both stories.

With Noah’s covenant, God redefines his relationship with

In the Bible, God speaks to Noah, saying many times over that the world that he created has become

Genesis 9: 12 of the New King James Bible go on to say And God said:

The contextual range of meaning of האמנה, or covenant, will explore the usage of covenant in the text of topic, Exodus 19:1-8, followed by its usage in the book of Exodus as a whole. Covenant is used only once in the focal passage but carries great significance. (Strong’s “covenant”:

There are three main covenants in the Old Testament. The first covenant is the Abrahamic Covenant. God promised Abraham that he would be the father of a great nation (Genesis 12:2). God also promised him the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:7; 17:8), He

The last of the four divine speeches in the flood account is actually a cluster of sub-speeches (see 6:13-21, note). 9:1-7 The first sub-speech is full of echoes of Gen 1, especially the command to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” (see 1:22 and 1:28, notes). 9:2-3 The new world order is different in that the relationship between animals and humans has changed, leading to a new meat-eating diet, which will be refined later (Lev 11). 9:4 The ban on blood consumption rests on the conviction that the blood is the life and that life is sacred (Lev 17:11,14; Deut 12:23). 9:6 There is value in all of animal life, but human life is highest in God’s economy. Those who shed innocent human blood suffer mightily by the nature of God’s ordering

The book of Genesis presents the reader with a relational God. In particular, Genesis focuses on the relationship between God and man and “thus Genesis does not present a static theology of God’s involvement with humanity, but regardless of his mode of engagement, God is present and active”. However, the sin of man arrived into the world and these relationships were fractured. Again, God exhibits judgment, but also mercy when in Genesis three He sends Adam and Eve out of the Garden for their transgression, yet provides clothes as an act of grace.