Genesis Chapter Summaries

Genesis Creation Sermon VI: And God Created All the Beasts of the Earth (fig.1) by Jacob Lawrence was created in 1989. This painting is the 6th in a series entitled Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis. In this painting Lawrence depicts a church service where the congregation is being taught by the pastor about the 6th day of creation and the biblical verse Genesis 1:24-25. The viewer goes straight to the pastor who is in the

The actual account of biblical creation of the earth is noted in Genesis 1. The Bible tells its readers that the world was created in six days, and on the seventh day, God rested from his work because it was good. Within those six days, God created light and dark, sky, land, the galaxy, the sea and flying creatures, and finally land animals and man. In Popol Vuh, the Maker is a supreme god like being who is noted to be the “mother-father of life, of humankind, giver of breath, [and] giver of heart” (cite). The narrative of Popol Vuh, begins with a sense of familiarity as its first sentence reads “This is the beginning of the Ancient Word, here in this place called Quiché” (cite). The idea of beginnings and blank slates is also apparent in

A Biblical Worldview is your view of the world through a biblical perspective. Worldviews are very important because they influence everything you do and every decision you make. That is why it’s important to know your worldview and to make sure it is in line with God’s word. It is also important to know your worldview because it affects your witness to others about God’s salvation. In Romans 1-8 Paul gives you some information that will help build a foundation for a biblical worldview.

When we compare this to Genesis, there is a big contradiction here. In Genesis 3 (ESV) it talks about the Fall of Man. Sickness, disease, and death came from the Fall, based off of the biblical evidence. Genesis 2:16-17 (ESV) says, “And the LORD God commanded the man saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.’” Now, why would God make death a punishment if had already happened to other organisms before? That is because death hadn’t occurred yet. The Fall of Man brought death upon Adam and Eve. Death wasn’t there, otherwise God would have called death “very good” as it would have been a part of his Creation from the very beginning. Once again, evolution is contradicted by

This took them five attempts to get correct. In Genesis, God used dust to create man. After this he then takes one of the man's ribs and makes a woman out of it. These attempts were both perfect. In the Norse creation myth Odin creates the first man and woman from two fallen trees. Man was made from an elm tree. Woman was made from an ash tree. These first humans populated the world of Midgard.

Most of the creation stories begin with stillness. First there is nothing and then God creates it all, like The Rig Veda and The Hebrew Bible. A few of the stories start slightly different, such as the African Creation Tale and the Native American Creation Tale that begins with Earth already created, and the Popol Vuh and The Babylonian Creation that begins with nothing but water. Water is a main theme in many of the creation stories because ancient societies were all situated on or near water. Since they did not have elaborate irrigation or ways to have water travel vast distances, settling close to the water was the only option. The water was their source of life; in many societies it was also part of their religion, as can be observed in

In the following paragraphs I will state the differences and similarities of Young Earth Creationists and Old Earth Creationists. I will discuss in this paper for young earth creationists: a six literal days time telling, the seventh day of rest, and the age of earth according to Biblical genealogies. Also, I will discuss in this paper for old earth creationists: a six days creation for one year each day, the seventh day of rest still occurring, and the age of the earth according to the farthest star that we can see in the atmosphere.

Genesis is written by two different groups. The two groups are the priests and the folklore. Both Genesis one and two have similarities and differences. The first difference between Genesis one and Genesis two is the order of creation. In the priestly narrative, Genesis one, the order of creation fall in order of light/dark, sky, dry land, vegetation, stars/sun, animals (sea monsters and fish), land animals, and humans. Humans are created last but another difference in short is that male and females were birthed at the same time unlike Genesis two where Eve came from Adam. In Genesis two, Adam is made, however; in Genesis one verse twenty-seven, God does not give man a name “male and female he created” (Coogan, 2010, p. 13). He then makes the Tree of Knowledge (good and evil) and Tree of Life. After giving Adam land and animals in Genesis two, God states that Adam needs someone at his side to help him “but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner” (Coogan, 2010, p. 14). God therefore makes a woman from Adam. This is important because Genesis one is interpreted as the priestly narrative. The main focus on Genesis one and why it was created this way was because humans are supposed to be accepting the creation on the

In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Genesis, describes two different accounts for how God created the earth, and everything in it. However, these accounts differ in literary description and events that leave us with many questions. We often wonder where we came from and why are we here? To keep our faith alive, we must understand how we got here and our purpose here on earth.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Gen 1:1) this statement encapsulates the entire narrative, functioning both as a summary statement of what is to follow in the story as well as a declaration of Yahweh’s transcendence of creation. Yahweh is a self-existent god; preexistent to creation and is in no way dependent on his creation. In the social context of the ancient Near East this would stand in contrast to the neighboring nations of Israel whose gods existed side by side with cosmic matter eternally, existing within creation, and creating out of necessity. Whereas Genesis proclaims Yahweh’s transcendent distinction from everything which was created by his sovereign power, and ultimately depends on him for its very existence; Yahweh is creating from a place of utter freedom and love, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Genesis divides naturally into two major parts. Chapters 1-11 provide and overview of the beginning history of humankind from Adam to Abraham. The theme of this part is expressed in the record of five history defining events. God created all things, including Adam and Eve whom he placed in the Garden of Eden. The Fall (humankind’s original disobedience toward God which disrupted his special favor toward them and destroyed their perfect relationship with him): Adam and Eve defied God’s instruction, bringing the curse of sin and death into human history. Cain and Abel: The tragedy that occurred between these two lives set in motion the two basic streams of history: humanistic civilization and the smaller portion of humanity that would follow

While this does not prove anything, we should be aware that we will never understand God because we are not God. With that being said we should not question everything, that is what faith is for. The next reason for believers to believe in the literal 24-hour event is that it is necessary. It is necessary because if it wasn 't it would undermine the message of the cross. Creation being 24 hours also helps prove the age of the Earth. If the days of creation were not 24 hours there would be no way to tell how old the Earth is. This helps Christians when it comes to the fossil record theories. We know that fossils were made after Adam rebelled. If they happened before then this means the Bible would have a contradiction. We know sin did not exist before Adam and Eve rebelled against God. Therefore we know that fossils were not made until after the fall of man, because death did not exist before the fall of man. The word Yom proves that the days were only 24 hours. “Respected Hebrew dictionaries, like the Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon, give a number of meanings for the word yom depending upon context. One of the passages they give for yom‘s meaning an ordinary day happens to be Genesis chapter 1. The reason is obvious. Every time the word yom is used with a number, or with the phrase “evening and morning’, anywhere in the Old Testament, it always means an ordinary day. In Genesis chapter 1, for each of the six days of creation, the Hebrew word yom is used with a number and the phrase, “evening and morning’. There is no doubt that the writer is being emphatic that these are ordinary days.” This article piece explains the word Yom. Everywhere in the Bible in the same context means a literal

God created the earth by his image. They both were empty darkness in the beginning of the story. The Genesis story says that “the earth was formless and empty, darkness in the deep surfaces.” In the Greek story had empty darkness too then there was a void. The thing that existed before the earth was darkness is that there was a bird name Nyx in the Greek story. Genesis story says “god created the heaves and the earth.” Human had an effect being created because Nyx wasn’t lonely

In the book of Genesis 1:1-31, the Bible gives an account of how life begun on the surface of the earth. The Bible says that for the first five days, God created heaven and earth and everything that is in it. He separated waters from the dry land and created both sea and land animals. On the sixth day, God created man in His own likeness

In each of these creation myths, there was nothing. No light, no life, nothing but darkness. Each myth agrees that, at the start, nothing existed and that our world and everything in it had to be created or to come from somewhere. Most of these myths incorporate some divinity or spirit who was said to create existence, although the Rig Veda “Song of Creation” breaks this common trend. According to the “Song of Creation”, there was the One who was self-sustaining but creation is not necessarily attributed to him. The legend speculates that perhaps the One created life but it also says maybe he didn’t and perhaps even he doesn’t know how creation happened. Whereas every other myth was definitive in how creation came about, the “Song of