Book of Genesis

Same-sex marriage has been legalized in our country, but has brought judgment from God on nations. As an example, look at what happened to the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. Three angels came to visit Abraham. Two of the angels went to Sodom and Gomorrah to see the wickedness that was in the city. The other angel stayed with Abraham, and told him he was going to destroy the city because of the people’s wickedness in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and because of homosexuality. However, Abraham…

The genealogies of Seth and Cain seem pretty boring a first glance. However, you can actually pull a lot out of Chapter 4,5 in Genesis. I would like to compare and contrast details that I have found very intriguing. First, I would like to talk about a few things that we distant to Cain’s line like how the line started with cain and not God or Adam. Also why it mentions a city in his genealogy and what that could mean. As well as why what Lamech said is so important. Then I would like to show you…

Melchizedek is mentioned three times in the Bible. The first time is in Genesis when he meets Abraham:…

Since the beginning of time, god created the Earth and the human race. The creation of the Earth also lead to different stories that tells people many ways of the world and humans god had created. In many religions, each one has a story of the first humans, Adam and Eve, who characterizes the human species and their nature. Many creation stories have different point of views of humans created in the world and tell people about being human and the nature of humans. In some societies,…

Assignment # 3 There is a very close similarity to this story to this story as of the story in the Holy Bible about Abraham asking God for a child. Presently let’s get to the story at hand. That is in the Qur’an sura 37 verses 100 – 111. Farther on Abraham did ask God for a child, and God had blessed him with a child. So when the children reach the right age Abraham told his son that he seen in a dream the he must sacrifice him and his son stated do as you are commanded. You will find me, if…

We read over two very important stories of creation in our reading, First the Christian biblical story similar to Adam and Eve. And last but not least the Iroquois Legend from the Native Americans, which varies from any other story I had heard before, Below are what I recognized as similarities and differences between the two. The First Noticed differences between stories were that the Women in the Native American story worked together with the animals of the earth after falling through a hole…

In the story “She Unnames Them” by Ursula LeGuin, Eve from Adam and Eve is the main character. The main character makes references to the story of Adam and Eve and also mentions the garden. The authors point in the story is that in today's world there are many barriers between humans and God’s creations, one of them being the debate of whether people have names because of respect or classification. For example “They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a…

Many myths and stories contain similarities in plot, content, and outcome. In the “Great Flood” myth and The Book of Eli their story displayed prior, during and after their heroes’ journey relate and are reflections of the ancient and modern day cultures that created them. God saw the “wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Speiser). In the “Great Flood” myth God is regretful for creating man and has decided…

This is a bizarre set of circumstances. In essence, this means the descendants fighting today are related, and have been killing each other for a very long time over the interpretation surrounding God and his promise to Abraham, who was a Jew. You have to be on the important people list when you are prominently mentioned in the oppositions bible. Abraham along with Jesus is mentioned in all three major religious publications, the Bible, Torah and Koran. “Recall Abraham was put to the test by…

skillful use of his highly valuable talent of dream interpreting, he is able to get himself out of trouble and get the ultimate payback from his brothers. As the son of Jacob’s prized wife Rachel, Joseph receives special treatment. The author of Genesis affirms this by stating “And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons” (Gen 37:3). This is further proved when Joseph receives a colored tunic from his father while his brothers receive nothing. In addition to the tunic, Joseph also probably…