The name Genesis Beginning Comes from the Greek Can also mean origin birth and generation Hebrew from first word in the beginning Written by Moses Date written 1490 BC to 1420 BC ID: 758389
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GENESIS
BeginningSlide2
Writing of the Book of Genesis
The name Genesis = BeginningComes from the Greek.Can also mean origin, birth, and generation
Hebrew from first word "in the beginning."
Written by MosesDate written: 1490 BC to 1420 BC.
Introduction to GenesisSlide3
Content of the Book of Genesis
There is no ancient near eastern document comparable to Genesis.Book has two unequal parts.Primeval History (Age):
Creation -- fall -- corruption of humanity -- flood -- saving of Noah's family -- tower of Babel (Gen. 1-11)
Patriarchal History (Age): Abraham and his descendants toward fulfilling God's promise (Gen.
12-Ex. 2:25)
Mosaical History (Age): Moses call, prophetic ministry, delivery from Egypt & giving of the law
Introduction to GenesisSlide4
DATE
AGE
PERIOD
IMPORTANT PEOPLE & EVENTS
SCRIPTURES
unknown
Primeval
AntediluvianThe creation of the worldAdam and Eve's fallCain and AbelNoah and the floodGen. 1:1 - 9:29unknownPostdiluvianTower of BabelGen. 10:1-11:92166-1876PatriarchalPatriarchalAbrahamIsaacJacobJosephGen. 11:10-50:261876-1446EgyptianJacob moves to EgyptJoseph diesIsraelites pressed into slaveryGen. 46:1-Ex. 2:251446-1406MosaicalWanderingMoses called to deliver IsraelPlagues on EgyptExodusLaw given at Mt. SinaiTabernacle erectedRebellion at Kadesh-barneaWandering in the wildernessMoses's speech to the peopleMoses's deathJoshua becomes the leader of IsraelEx. 3:1-Deut. 34:12
PENTATEUCH CHARTSlide5
Outline of the Book of Genesis
Creation Genesis 1-2Fall (Adam and Eve) Genesis 3Noah & the Flood Genesis 4-10
Babel Genesis 11
Abraham Genesis 12:1-25:18Isaac Genesis 25:19-27:46
Jacob Genesis 28:1-36:43
Joseph Genesis 37:1-50:26Beginning and ending points of
Genesis
Creation of the worldJoseph's deathIntroduction to GenesisSlide6
Purpose of the Book of Genesis
To reveal who God is and his saving work through Israel to bless all peoples.
Introduction to GenesisSlide7
Important
teachings in GenesisGod keeps his promisesAll nations will be blessed through Abraham (Gen. 18:18)
Genesis
records the actions of a personal God who acts in history for the good of peopleGod is Creator of the world and
Sovereign
God's ways are perfectHumanity is God's unique creation
God punishes
sinGod calls for people to have faithGod shows patience and graceGod is self-revealed – commanding, conversing, entering into covenantsIntroduction to GenesisSlide8
Reason
Moses wrote GenesisWritten for the Israelites to teach them about the one God that created and rules everything as opposed to the God's around them and differentiate God from the gods
Distinguish the one God from other religions that had many gods that ruled over various aspects of the world, e.g. rain, crops, sun, moon, love. (How is the world seen to day; e.g. stars rule, science and random chance?)
God's were capricious, unreliable, and threatening. God's were to be appeased by sacrifice to solicit their kindness to people.
Introduction to GenesisSlide9
Reason
Moses wrote GenesisReveal a personal God at work, not a world that was the outcome of battle between the gods, Marduk and
Tiamat
, which were always in a struggle for power and thus gave rise the chaos and problems on earth (Tiamat losses and split in half) -- Mesopotamian creation myth –
Enuma
Elish:
No mention of the creation of woman.
Very few similarities with Biblical account.The creation account shows God to be the only God who created everything good and rules over an orderly creation.God does not live in strife with other gods.God is seen as initiating communication with his creation and providing for it. Humanity is to respond to God's action while in the pagan religions people must solicit with sacrifices and appeals so the gods will be benevolent to them.Introduction to GenesisSlide10
Genesis
and Humanities placeHumanity's makeup - image of God; relationship;
caregiver; labor
Humanity's calling - follow their creatorHumanity's fall - losing sight of GodHumanity's problem - sin and suffering
Humanity's
need - redemption from sin and sufferingHumanity's answer - Jesus Christ
Introduction to GenesisSlide11
Why did God create humanity?
He was lonelyNeeded humanityNeed to be worshipedGlorify God
God relational nature
Introduction to GenesisSlide12
Survey of Genesis
Primeval History
YHWH - GodSlide13
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Days of Creation (1:1-2:3)Prologue (1:1-2)
God is the subject of first sentence of the Bible.
Creation is God's action.Until God created nothing existed (matter has no self-existence)
Created but not yet formed or arranged.
Earth was formless and void (formless = chaos)Deep means the ocean literallyGod's Spirit was moving (working)
Spirit of God in O.T. is creative and sustaining
Spirit brings form and fills the earthSlide14
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Implications of the Doctrine of Creation
Everything
has value as God's creationGod
created and continues to work in the
worldScientific investigation is appropriate as creation assumes an orderliness created by
intelligence
Only God is self-sufficient or eternalEverything derives its existence from GodGod's creation is of value to him and thus should be for usHumans are to caretakers of the creationWhat if man creates life? Intelligence?Slide15
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Primeval History – Earliest History
Days
of creation and order of
creation
FORM
FULLNESS
Day 1Light & DayDay 4Lights for the Day & NightDay 2Sea & SkyDay 5Creatures for the Waters & AirDay 3Fertile EarthDay 6Land CreaturesAnimals & HumansSlide16
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First Day (3-5)Light
created and separated from darkness
How can there be light before the sun was created?
Other
sources of light (i.e. ultraviolet light, electromagnetic)Day
- evening and morning one day seems to set the limit.
Day (yom) usually means a normal day or part of the daylight portionYom is used "in the time of the judges" for an indefinite time period and in Gen. 2:4 for more than 24 hoursSlide17
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Second Day (4-8)Expanse
(firmament) = space or may refer to the atmosphere
Water above was a vast watery vapor (no rain in those days Gen. 2:5), water canopy like greenhouse
Uniform
temperature all over the worldLonger
lives because of filtering of ultraviolet radiation, etc.Slide18
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Third Day (9-13)Dry
land and
vegetationDifferent after the floodSlide19
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Fourth Day (14-19)Lights
created in the
expanseSigns for the seasons
Two
great lights, greater rules the day, lesser rules the nightSlide20
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Fifth Day (20-23)Creatures
of the
waterCreatures of the sky
Produce
after their own kindSea
monsters (tannin), sometimes translated dragon, a large sea animal (dinosaur?)Slide21
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Sixth Day (24-31)Land
animals after their own kind.
Creation of man (squirrel article)
Man
made in God's image contrary to animals, man's uniquenessMan
will rule over the
animalsMale and female created in His image (1:27)Be fruitful and multiply (also after the flood Gen. 9:1)Subdue the earthGiven all things on the face of the earthGod saw that all he made was very good.Slide22
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Seventh Day (2:1-3)Everything
completed.
God rested; God's creating work was at an end
God
blessed the seventh day and sanctified it (set it a part)Slide23
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Genesis and Humanities Place before God
Humanity’s makeup – image of God, relational (vertical and horizontal), labor, caretakers, rulers
Humanity’s calling – follow their CreatorHumanity’s fall – not following God
Humanity’s problem – sin and wrong relationships
Humanity’s need – redemption to right relationshipsHumanity’s answer – God graciousness shown ultimately in Jesus ChristSlide24
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Creation and ScienceChristian
theology does not propose to tell us
how the universe came into being; it tells us the source of creation
Science - True
science is defined as: The systematic analysis of presently observed processes and their phenomena.Two areas where science and theology
conflict
The origin and age of the universeThe development of creationSlide25
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Creation and ScienceWhich would you prefer, intelligent design or accident?
Which makes more sense, a organized universe by accident or intelligence?
We generally do not look at complex machines around us and assume the accidently came together but that someone designed them and created them
Kalam
Cosmological Argument
By
William Lane CraigSlide26
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Age of the CreationArchbishop James Ussher dated the age of earth at 4004 B.C.
Based his calculations on the genealogies in the Bible
Genealogies don't always have every generation
“Son of” can just mean descendent of
Geology dates the earth at 5 to 6 billion years in age and universe at 8 to 12 (Hubble created a stir when said 2 billion)Various methods used in dating
Radioactive material
Given probable gaps in the genealogies a longer period could be possible but not necessary to postulate 5 to 6 billion yearsSlide27
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Radioactive material like Uranium 238 - lead
or Potassium – argon
Carbon 14 dating of organic material is limited to 50,000 years but suffers from some of the same assumptions as others
Three Assumptions
Process of radioactive decay must have always operated at the same rate at which it functions todayProcess takes place in a closed system meaning nothing could disturb or change the process (experiments show things can change similar processes)
The initial condition of the elements must be known when it first began the process.
See Morris’ book Biblical Basis for Modern ScienceSlide28
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Age of the CreationAttempts to reconcile these two views
The gap theory - holds that the original creation took place billions of years ago (mentioned in Gen. 1:1) and then re-formed a few thousand years ago (Gen. 1:2ff).
Great age is from the first creation.
A great catastrophe occurred possibly due to Satan.
Creation stayed in ruin for a long time before God reestablished his creation recording in Gen. 1:2ff.Slide29
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Age of the CreationAttempts to reconcile these two views
The flood theory - holds that the earth is just a few thousand years old but due to the flood at the time of Noah and the changes that occurred in the geological structures the earth appears older to geologists.
Huge waves cause great stress on the earth
Greater pressure from the amount of water
Life forms and mud deposit in different stratasSlide30
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Age of the CreationAttempts to reconcile these two views
The ideal-time theory - holds that God created the world in six days but made it pre-aged or full grown so it is as if it were billions of years old.
Example of trees with rings indicating their "ideal age."
Creation began at some point in the life-cycle.
The word "yom" is a literal 24 hour day and always mean day when used with a number.Slide31
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Age of the CreationAttempts to reconcile these two views
The age-day theory - holds that the each day stands for and epoch or long period of time.
The word "
yom
" usually stand for a 24 hour period but can stand for and indeterminate period of time.Scriptures: Ex 20:11 says created in six days.Slide32
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Age of the CreationAttempts to reconcile these two views
The literary-framework theory - holds that the biblical account is a literary device to give a picture of the God as originator of the world but not to be taken scientifically.
First three days are places - second three days fill the places
Light & Day - Sun, moon, stars
Sea & sky - Creatures of the water and skyFertile earth - Creatures of the landSlide33
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Creation or Evolution
Creation - holds that God created every species.
Some animals have become extinct due to changes in the earths environment or other factorsAnimals develop within species
Creative act was in the six days of creationSlide34
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Creation or Evolution
Evolution - holds that all forms of life have developed from non-living substance to the first living material by a gradual process of selection, mutations, spontaneous variations which caused new types to come into existence.
Survival of the fittest due to better adapted to their environment
Developed from a lower to a higher forms
Problems with evolutionLack of intermediate stages in geological records
No intermediate stages exist in live animals
Leaves no place for a spiritual natureSlide35
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Attempt to Reconcile Creation & EvolutionTheistic evolution - God created directly the beginning of the evolutionary process and continues to work in the natural evolutionary process
May have been some modifying of living creatures in the process like giving humans a spiritual nature.
Try to fit the evolutionary process to scripture.Slide36
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Attempt to Reconcile Creation & EvolutionProgressive creationism - holds that God created over a long period of time each species (kind -
min
) and other evolved from those first broad group
Science notes gaps between kinds
Intra-kind development vs. Inter-kind developmentSlide37
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Doctrine (Teaching) of CreationGod created the entire universe out of nothing; it was originally very good; and he created it to glorify himself through his relationship with His creation.Slide38
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Objections to theistic evolution:Scripture teaches that creation was purposeful not random or chance
Scripture pictures God’s creative work as bringing an immediate response
“And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind.” And after three hundred eighty-seven million four hundred ninety-two thousand eight hundred seventy-one attempts, God finally made a mouse that worked.” (
Grudem
277)Slide39
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Objections to theistic evolution:Scripture points to God creating animals and plants to reproduce after their kind
God played a active role in creating.
Special creation of Adam and Eve breaks with evolutionary thought
There are many scientific problems with the theory of evolutionSlide40
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Since Charles Darwin first published his Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 – Problems persist:
No change from one species to another - fly is still a fly
Fossil records is still one of the biggest problem
Stasis. Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth.
Sudden appearance. In any local area, a species does not arise gradually by steady transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and “fully formed.”Slide41
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Since Charles Darwin first published his Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 – Problems persist:
Difficulty of explaining how life could have begun by chance.
Even the simplest living organism capable of independent life (the prokaryote bacterial cell) has not been able to be constructed in our best laboratories. “That a living organism emerged by chance from a pre-biotic soup is about as likely as that ‘a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.’Slide42
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Since Charles Darwin first published his Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 – Problems persist:
Kofahl
and
Segraves
reported a study by evolutionary scientists that calculated the probability of the chance formation of the smallest likely living organism is 10 to 340,000,000.Slide43
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Since Charles Darwin first published his Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 – Problems persist:
Non-Christian writer, Michael Denton
, Evolution: A Theory in Crises notes that since the time of Darwin notes, Neither the two fundamental axioms of Darwin’s
macroevolutionary
theory – the concept of the continuity of nature, that is the idea of a functional continuum of all life forms linking all species together and ultimately leading back to a primeval cell, and the belief that all the adaptive design of life has resulted from a blind random process – have not been validated by one single empirical discovery or scientific advance since 1859.Slide44
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Evolution of Humanity - Proof & Problems?Slide45
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Evolution of Humanity - Proof & Problems?
Leakey discovered
Kenyapithecus
africanus
– plaster cast of incisor and canine teeth and bits of the upper and lower jaw
Zinjanthropus (fossil man) – nearly complete skull but primitive tool found in the same strata, they should not appear until laterAshley Montagu (anthropologist), Australopithecus are apelike and not of the line the leads to man. Korn and Smith in their book Human Evolution note Australopithecus was evolving toward being man but never crossed to become human.Slide46
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Evolution of Humanity - Proof & Problems?
Pithecanthropines
family – Java Man - Dr. Du Bois set out to find the missing link between apes and humans and found the “Java man” as the bones were discovered in north central Java.
Found apelike tooth, other teeth about 10 feet away, brain pan and a femur (thighbone). Declared the brain pan too small to be a man but too large for an ape.
In 1896 Du Boise got the opinion of 19 authorities – 5 thought it was an ape, 7 thought human and 7 a missing link. Du Bois put the bone in a box and buried it under his dining room floor. Later admitted to finding other bones in the same strata that were unquestionably of modern humans.Slide47
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Evolution of Humanity - Proof & Problems?
Pithecanthropines
family – Peking Man
In the 1930s Dr. Black original found a molar tooth from which he decided he had found new genus and species.
Later, more bone fragments and an almost complete skull were found but their whereabouts is unknown and cannot be studied today.
Supposed reconstruction of the Peking ManSlide48
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Evolution of Humanity – Proof & Problems?
Nebraska Man
– single tooth but actually from a wild pig
Piltdown Man
– mandible and portions of a skull - complete hoax
Orce
Man – skull fragments later found to belong to 6 month old monkeyRodesian Man – actual bones of a modern manHeidelberg Man – large jaw bone with several teeth, jaw bone is large but teeth within modern human normsSlide49
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Adam and Eve in the Garden (2:4-25)Amplification on the creation related to humanity place in the created order (2:4-7)
Earth watered by mist not by rain
Formation of Adam and breath of life (physical life)Slide50
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Adam and Eve in the Garden (2:4-25)Planting of the garden east of Eden (2:8-14)
Tree of life
Tree of knowledge of good and evilLocation of garden by rivers
Gihon
TigrisEuphrates
Pishon
(see BAR, The River Runs Dry, p. 52f)Slide51
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Possible location of the Garden (2:4-25)
(see BAR, The River Runs Dry, p. 52f)Slide52
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Possible location of the Garden (2:4-25)
(see BAR, The River Runs Dry, p. 52f)
See article:
http://www.pauljwagner.com/images/pishon.pdf
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Adam and Eve in the Garden (2:4-25)Man's place in the garden; God provides (2:15-17)
Man is to cultivate and care for the garden (labor a part of life)
God gives his will for His creation. Man free to eat of everything but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Humanity has freedom of choice to choose for God or against
God - Yahweh means "He who is" or EternalYahweh is the covenant name for God (old version translated Jehovah)Slide54
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Adam and Eve in the Garden (2:4-25)Unique characteristics of humanity
Image of God (1:26)
Self-conscience - freedom to choosePosition – rules over creation (1:26)
Spiritual and physical being
Relational (2:14)Death will result if one eats of the tree.Physical death
Sin enters the world
Spiritual death or separationSlide55
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Adam and Eve in the Garden (2:4-25)Creation of woman elaborated (2:18-23)
Man was not complete without woman
Helper is not a negative termMan named all the animals but none were suitable for him
A woman was created from Adam's side
rib not a good translationfrom side: neither from his head suggesting superiority or from his feet suggesting inferioritySlide56
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Adam and Eve in the Garden (2:4-25)Goodness in relationships (2:24-25)
Man and woman were created to be united and complement each other
Marriage was institutedJesus based his teaching on marriage on this passage (Matt. 19:3-9; Mark 10:2-12)
There was an innocence before the fall. They did not know sin. They had only known good up to this timeSlide57
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Sin Enters the World - The Fall (3:1-24)Temptation of the serpent (3:1-7)
God said “you” plural are not to eat
The serpent used by SatanThe serpent as the devil and Satan (Revelation 12:9; 20:2)
Thrown down to earth and his angels
Satan lies to Eve to get her to disobeyEnticement is to be like God
She will not die
Disobedience brings loss of innocenceRealization of their nakedness indicated they had eaten of the tree of which they were not to eat.Slide58
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Sin Enters the World - The Fall (3:1-24)Why the seriousness of sin?
Results of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (3:8-24)
Adam and Eve change their relationship with God
Hide themselves from His presence
They were afraid because of disobedienceAdam blames the womanEve blames the serpentSlide59
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Sin Enters the World - The Fall (3:1-24)God's response to their disobedience
Serpent cursed
More than all cattle and every beast of the field.On his belly he will go. Was it upright before?Slide60
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Sin Enters the World - The Fall (3:1-24)First prophecy in the O.T. Ultimate defeat of Satan prophesied (3:15)
To Eve
Multiply pain in childbirthHusband will rule over her (not dominate in a sinful way)
To Adam
Ground cursed from which he will work for food.There will be thorns and thistles making the growing of food more difficult.Slide61
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Sin Enters the World - The Fall (3:1-24)God continues to provide for humanity
Adam (person or man) called his wife Eve (life or living) because she was the "mother of all living."
God provides the with clothes of animal skins
God removes Adam and Eve from the garden
Removed so they cannot continue to live forever by eating of the tree of lifeEntrance to the garden guarded by cherubim
Cherubim = heavenly creaturesSlide62
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Sin Enters the World - The Fall (3:1-24)Origin of Satan
Lucifer (day-star) had fallen from heaven because of a desire to usurp the throne of God (Isa. 14:12-15). This passage is specifically speaking of the king of Babylon though we may assume the malevolent spirit of Satan was at work and being described here to some degree.
Ezekiel 28:11-19 - the king of
Tyre
whom Satan worked through is spoken of in the garden, as created, and "blameless" until "unrighteousness was found" in him and he was corrupted in his wisdom by his splendor.
Jesus said He saw Satan fall from heaven like lightening
Jesus gave His disciples power over the enemy (Lk. 10:18)Slide63
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Cain and Able (4:1-24)Cain kills Able (4:1-8)
First time sacrifices are mentioned
Able gives a better sacrificeCain is jealous so kills Able
Sin continues to be a problem
Gen. 4:7 - do well, master sinCain's punishment (4:9-15)No care for his brother (the problem of the world).
Punishment is to be a wander or nomad no longer a cultivator.
Protected from vengeance by a sign or mark.Slide64
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Cain and Able (4:1-24)Cain's descendants in the land of Nod (4:16-24)
Violence continues in Cain's linage -
LemechHis line died in the flood
Seth in the place of Able (4:25-26)
Offspring in place of AbleThis line followed after the Lord (Gen. 4:26)Slide65
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The Generations of Adam to Noah (5:1-32)Adam through Seth leads to Noah
Two important figures prominent in the Bible
Enoch - walked with God an example of faithfulness (see Heb. 11:5)Noah - righteous before God, delivered from the flood
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Noah (6:1-10:32)The Evil of People (6:1-12)
Population increased and evil was the norm for the day
Sons of God took daughters of men. Offspring became mighty men of oldSome think angels intermarried with humans (see
Lk
. 20:34-36 which indicates angels don't marry)Probably means God's followers intermarried with non-followers
Nephilim
Tribe of Canaanites who were large in size (see Num. 13:33)Means fallen onesSlide67
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Noah (6:1-10:32)Building of the ark (6:14-16)
Gopher wood
Length 300 cubit (18") by 50 cubits (450' by 75') with three decksWindow around the top 1 cubit from roof
Very stable dimensions, would have to be turned almost vertical to tip over
Ark remains?Over the years there have been people who have noted possible boar remains on Mt. Ararat in TurkeySlide68
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Noah (6:1-10:32)The rain and the flood (7:6-8:19)
Noah was 600 years old when the flood came (enter ark 2/17/600). (7:11)
Rained 40 days and 40 nights.Fountains of the deep opened up.
Water covered the whole earth.
Length of time in ark 2/17/600 to 2/27/601is one year and ten days (8:13-14)Be fruitful and multiply occurs here and at creation when there were few people on the earthSlide69
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Noah (6:1-10:32)God's Covenant with Noah (8:20 - 9:19)
Noah's sacrifice
God's covenant with NoahSign of the bow that God would not destroy earth by flood again
Animals would fear people
Cursing of Canaan the son of Ham and Noah’s death (9:20-29)What does it mean looked upon his fathers nakedness?
He told with delight or delighted in his father's shame
Canaan will serve Shem and JaphethNoah died at age 950Slide70
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Noah (6:1-10:32)Generations of Noah's Sons (10:1 - 10:32)
Japheth - coastlands
Ham - CanaanitesShem - hill country to the east (line of Abraham)Slide71
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The Tower of Babel (11:1-26)The Tower (11:1-9)
Babel - confuse
People able to do great things (pride)Different languages given
Scattered abroad
The Generations of Shem to Abram (11:10-26)Traces from Shem to Abram