Genesis Flashcards
Author of Genesis
Moses
-not stated, but traditionally attributed to Moses
Date of Genesis
Very beginning of time
- Moses lived around 1400 BC, but Genesis dates to the beginning of all existence
Genesis in ten words or less
-and my method, three words or less!
Creates; sin; Chooses
Framework:
God creates –> Man sins –> God chooses
- God creates the world
- Man sins
- God chooses a special people
Summary Of Genesis
- what are my three key words that give a frame for Genesis?
Framework:
God creates –> Man sins –> God chooses
God creates (Ch 1 and 2) the universe and everything in it, with special focus on humans (Gen 2:7)
Adam and Eve ruin paradise by disobeying –> sin throws humans into a moral free fall (Cain murders Abel) –> people become so bad that God brings a flood (global or regional is debatable), saving only Noah and his family, ark full of animals
–> earth repopulates –> God chooses Abram as patriarch of a specially blessed people (later called “Israel”) –> Abram has a grandson named Jacob –> Jacob has a son Joseph –> Joseph saves Israel from Egypt –> setting up events of Exodus
Verse in Genesis relating to The Trinity:
“God said, Let us make ___ in ___ image, after ___ likeness”
And name the verse
“God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (1:26, emphasis added).
Verse of Creation, where God gives special focus on humans
then the Lord God formed the ___ of dust from the ___ and ___ into his nostrils the breath of ___, and the man became a ___ creature.
Gen 2:7
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
The “So What?” factor of Genesis
Answers the question of “where did I come from?”
Knowing we are God’s creation, and not a fantasy of childish macro-evolution fairy tale nonsense, gives us meaning and an appropriate understanding of reality
