What Is The Role Of God In The Book Of Genesis

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In the beginning was the genesis of creation, where had God moved by his spirit to create the Heavens, Earth, and mankind for a companionship with one of his own image. God wanted a relationship based on freewill for the product of true love. But the free will of mankind resulted in the fall from the grace of God. Because of God’s love, we can see the movement of God throughout history to reconcile the relationship between God and mankind back into right standing. The movement shows a trajectory approach for the growth of mankind as we move from an infant childlike faith to a full grown intimate relationship with God. And throughout the testimony of God through the prophets, God shows his plan through the promises that he made with Abraham.
The Book of Genesis presents us with how everything began with the spirit of God in the creations of the Heavens and the Earth. And through a period of seven days spoke into being all that is in the earth and of the earth. He formed from the dust of the earth a man called Adam in the form of his own image. Then he created the first woman called Eve to be a companion to Adam. They were together and had children, their children had children since they were to be
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Though we don’t understand why the events unfold in the life of Job unfolded in the way that they did, we are called not to try to understand. But to trust God in all of his ways. We are to just honor him with Psalms in praise of who God is, what he has done and what he can do in our lives including those around us. Supported by the wisdom of the Proverbs to instruct us on how we should live and the pointlessness of human effort apart from a living relationship with God. But when we do live according to his ways and continue to walk with him, he shares his wisdom of love in a way in which he instructs on how it should

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