Theme Of Genesis 12-50

In Genesis 15 the Lord visited Abram in a vision telling him not to be afraid because He is there to protect Abram. During this vision Abram mentions to the Lord that he’s childless and his only heir will be his servant. The Lord tells him not to worry because he’s going to have many children. Abram then asked Him how he could get possession of the land that He promised Abram. God told Abram to bring him a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon. Abram then brings the animals to him and cuts the goat, heifer and ram in half. At night a dreadful darkness came over him and at the same time the Lords pays Abram a visit. He gives him an idea of what the future looks like for his descendants. God tells

The readings of Exodus explain the departure of the Israelites from Egypt and how the covenant was renewed. The rejuvenation made Israel a nation and formed a relationship between god and his teachings. The nature of god’s presence reveals how the Israelites were authentic and productive with how they reproduced and how the land became filled with Israelites. The reality demonstrates how the new king of Egypt stated that, “The Israelite people have multiplied and become more numerous than we are”(Exodus p. 16). This reality proposes how the Egyptians became resentful against the Israelites in order them to suffer brutal slavery and make life difficult for them with intense work and punishment. The texts in Exodus acknowledge the sacrifices Hebrew women had to make in order to live through nature and reality. It states “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They are robust and give birth before the midwife arrives” (Exodus p. 16). Gods presence through nature and reality reveals how

“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)

To study Genesis in terms of its literary and historical content is not to say that we are in any way being irreverent in our reading of this part of the Old Testament. In other words, it is possible to read Genesis in both a spirit of appreciation for its position as the opening exegetical narrative of the Bible and as a document that reflects literary and historical realities and influences during the time when it was being written down. This paper examines some of the contemporary sources that influenced the two sets of writers who recorded the events of Genesis.

There is much information regarding chapter twelve through fifty of Genesis. I am going to mention what most of the chapters is comprised of. I felt that a big portion of the chapters discussed the importance of Abraham. Abraham was a man married to a woman named Sarai, who both lived in Haran. Even though Abraham was a good person, he was still without a child. One day God spoke to him and told him to get ready to leave. The Lord was going to direct Abraham to the land promised to him. Later in time, Abraham was sitting outside on a dark night. The Lord appeared to him and promised him a reward. The reward would be that he would have a son. By having faith in God's greater plan, Abraham would have a great reward. In addition, God promised Abraham that he would be a father of many nations and have numerous descendants. Later, Abraham told his wife that she would have a child. Sarah wondered how a woman of her age could conceive a child. One today would probably think having a child at that age is impossible. Abraham tried relentlessly to tell Sarah that she would conceive a child. Sarah chose disbelief instead of trusting in God's plan. Eventually, Abraham chose to have a child with Hagar. Hagar was a servant who gave birth to a son named Ishmael. Through Ishmael, there would be a line of descendants. Later in time, God spoke to Sarah and specifically told her she would have a son. She began to laugh and not trust in the Lord. God told Sarah that she would name her son

Popul Vuh shares a great many similarities with the creation story in Genesis from the Bible. Just as the Plumed Serpent created the earth by saying the word “Earth”, God of the Bible created the heavens and the earth in the world (Tedlock 524). When the humans became too powerful in Popul Vuh and threatened the gods in vision and in knowledge, the gods stupefied them, then took back the human’s advanced vision and replaced it with a fuzzier view. This parallels with the story in Genesis, by how God throws Adam and Eve out of the Garden lest they “become like one of us in knowing good and evil” (Genesis 4:22: ESV) The motivation of these tales is to rationalize the creation of the heaven and earth, and to have a god to serve or a reason to

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

The passage that I choose to write about was Genesis chapter 1 verses 1-5. I choose this passage because I was interested in studying how God supposedly created the earth and turned darkness into a world full of life and spirit. Genesis 1 begins by saying “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”(NKJV) I think that the purpose of this verse is to summarize the things that God would do in the future. This text tells us that God existed before the heavens and the earth. We also learn that before God started to create, the earth was empty, dark, and lifeless. The text also represents the beginning of everything earthly by saying God will create life on earth and in

Genesis 17:2 “Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”

The basis of Judaism and Christianity rely on the foundation set in the first chapters of their respective books. For Judaism, Genesis sets the scene for how the world was created, while for Christianity, Matthew is the first gospel that builds on Judaism to establish a new faith.

Starting from the beginning of Genesis I will travel to the end of chapter 11 giving details of each part as I go along. I will pick parts

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.

Genesis is a story of the beginning of time and the ancestry record of the seed line from Adam to Christ. It is a story that proves to us that God is in control and his will will be done no matter how much we resist it. The first chapters of Genesis tell us of the miraculous events that happen during creation. This week’s reading tells us about four outstanding people that God hose to use to continue his promise of a redeemer to save his people.

The first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis describe many significant events that happened. Warren W. Wiersbe describes these chapters as the one that “deal the humanity in general” (Wiersbe, 2007, p.12). Genesis starts with the creation, the fall, the great flood and when the languages were confused at Babel. These are the four most important parts found within the first eleven chapters of Genesis.

Just like how a child becomes fascinated after hearing stories of their babyhood, or how a family is eager to discover their genealogy, the book of Genesis is a very intriguing story to many Christians because it depicts how mankind and the world around them were formed. Genesis 1-3 allow a base knowledge for understanding the rest of the bible because it portrays the way that God created the world – how it was supposed to be and why the world is the way it is today. After God spends six days working on creating his idea of a perfect world, it says “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good,” (Genesis 1:31). However, as Eve disobeyed God’s word and listened to the deceitful serpent, God knew he needed to punish Adam and Eve in order