Genesis 1:1

If a group from my congregation asked me to teach a four week course, I would choose Genesis on the grounds that it holds more stories that have relevance to the context of my congregation. The approximate demographics of my congregation are as follows: over ninety percent are Caucasian; over fifty percent are 45 years of age or older; women are the dominate group within most of the small group activities; and the mining, healthcare, and retail industries are the largest employers respectively.…

Evaluate God 's mercy in relation to his response to humanity using the events and characters of Genesis and Jonah. To evaluate character and events of Genesis and Jonah pertaining God’s mercy on relations on his response to humanity for his people. These two books of Genesis and Jonah gives us examples how humanity change when Adam and Eve cast the first Sin in Genesis 3, however in Genesis 2 God gave humanity a chance by providing them everything they needed in the Garden of Eden. Jonah…

kind and all crawling things on the ground of each kind, and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1-4: pg. 117). God made his creation of animals for humans to be able to feed off of and to honor in his name to be thankful for the food that was offered. “then the Lord God fashioned he human, humus from he soil, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the human became a living creature.” (Genesis 1-4: pg.…

Genesis means "generation". If you were a Levitical Priest and you could not trace your ancestry to Levi, you would be removed from your position (Neh 7:64). The genealogical record for every Israelite confirmed their ownership to their land and home. It is quite often that when the book of Genesis is discussed, people will comment on how, in their perspective, Genesis was written for the purpose of having a ‘story book’ to explain why and how we got here, and where we came from. This is not…

The biblical story of “Noah’s Ark” founded in (Genesis 6-9), is the original encounter of the flood story. Many religions believe God’s word is true, cause of its reputation the word of God’s is taken very seriously. In the bible, the people became aggressive, wicked and corrupted in their ways; once God noticed that he became angry with the people. Because of the people wickedness, the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth. (Genesis 6:5-6). In “Noah’s Ark”, God realized that the…

time. Witcombe claims that Genesis advises men to not trust women and even tells women to refrain from trusting themselves. Women are not able to escape being compared to Eve. There are other commentaries that believe Adam and Eve to have been equal when they were created, up until the time that Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge. Because she sinned,…

is such a difference between different creation myths. During the first couple of weeks in the semester it became clear that creation is rooted in many cultures in diverse ways. In the beginning of the semester we discussed the creation myth of "Genesis". To story begins with God creating the earth and it follows with the well known phrase, "And God said, Let there be light: and there was…

Genesis 1:11-12 teaches: And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants[e] yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (ESV). God place everything on earth as provisions for the survival of man and prosper man. Is…

economy is always better. God created human beings, He knows how they should work. God also created marriage and knows how it should work (Genesis 2:18-25). God did not have to create mankind. God was not lonely, he has the eternal fellowship of the Trinity. God chose to create mankind to bring Him glory and so that we could enjoy Him forever. The first picture in Genesis is that God created man distinctly different than the rest of His creation. God breathes life into the man's nostrils,…

The book of Genesis introduces many characters to the readers including Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Sarah, and the list goes on. All of these characters play an important role within the overall story of Genesis. Although all of these characters are crucial to the makeup of Genesis, Abraham may be one of the most influential and crucial characters of the Genesis story. The life of Abraham covers thirteen out of the fifty chapters in the book of Genesis, and Abraham is seen as one…