...Tyesha Richard July 5, 2013 BIBL 105 Essay 1 Natural World, Human Identity, Human Relationships, and Civilization throughout the Bible God is the creator of all things. He created the heavens and the earth. God created the natural world. Genesis 1:1 states, “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth (NIV)”. On the first day, God created light. He created light to separate day from night. The second day God created the sky and the ocean. “And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water. So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it” (Genesis 1:6-7). This is how God created the sky. On the third day, God created the dry ground and He called it land. He created land so there would be vegetation (Genesis 1:12). God then created the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day. He wanted to distinguish day and night by creating the sun and moon. “God made two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night” (Genesis, 1:16). God then created the birds of the sky and the fishes of the sea on the fifth day. On the sixth day, God created animals and man. God wanted to make man in His own image. The fact that man is the pinnacle of God’s creative work is evident from his designation as God’s image bearer (pg.55). Man was to take care of the earth, to rule over the fishes of the sea, the birds in the sky, and the animals in the land. Man and woman were given...
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...In “A Separate Peace”, Knowles demonstrates the evil within us when Finny falls from the tree and sin comes into existence. The innocence and adolescence are replaced by a darker and more evil side of human nature. “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” That’s Romans 3:23. But Romans isn’t the only book of the Bible that refers to the wickedness of sin. The story of Adam and Eve is one of the most well-known Bible stories. Genesis 3:6 says: “When the woman saw the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he also ate it.” Adam and Eve committed the original sin, which causes the perfect world...
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...and shed his Grace on us and gave a way of redemption from the eternal consequences. Keywords: Sin, consequences and redemption The sin of Man and God’s Grace Through Genesis 1-11 we read about man sinning, his immediate and eternal consequences, and God making a way for redemption. Today man is still struggling with his sins against God reaping the immediate consequences and eternal consequences. Though around 2000 years ago Christ came and fulfilled Old Testament Prophesy and made the way to eternal redemption attainable. Adam and Eve Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 2:8) He had it made. God even gave him a companion. (Genesis 2:21-22) All they had to do is not eat of the tree that gave the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:17) As we do so many times today they did not obey God and listened to the devil in chapter 3 and ate the fruit. God gave them freedom to obey or not to obey. God gives us the freewill to obey or not. Why you may ask? “But if, of our Own Choice, and against the steady urge of our Nature, we obey God, there is Character in that.” (Halley’s Bible Handbook, Dr. Henry Halley, 1965, p. 67) They had the immediate consequence the man would have to work and the woman would bear children and suffer doing so and were removed from the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 3: 16-24) The eternal ramifications was that they were to die and would have to make sacrifices for atonement of sins. Today we still work and toil. Women still suffer in...
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...Genesis 1-11 Worldview Essay Anissa Ortiz L24589524 Bible 105 January 27, 2014 The Natural World The Old Testament book, Genesis, is known for the creation and beginnings of all mankind. In essence, Genesis 1-11 lays the foundation for the biblical truth we know today. The natural world is referred to the Lord’s creation. In Genesis 1, God’s existence and the beginning of creation is introduced as the verse reads, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). The chapter continues with a detailed description of the creation of the world in six days by a triune God. From this, God shows us how to conduct our weeks by working six days and then resting on the seventh day. This is where the principle of the Sabbath was established; the verses read, “By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that He had done” (Genesis 2:2-3). In addition to God creating the world, Genesis 1-11 also teaches that He gave human beings the responsibility of using His creation and all of its resources for the good of all. Human Identity In the pages of Genesis, it is written that all human beings are created in the image of God. This simply means that every human being is made to reflect God and His character, which is described as good. At the end of chapter one, the first...
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...Bible Observation After reading Genesis 1-10 my observation of the reading was that this was one of the beginning stories of man. In addition this was when God created the heavens and the earth including the light, water, land, and creatures. It took God six days to make the earth, and on the seventh day God rested. In addition Adam and Eve were the first two humans that God had created they were the first couple, and first to sin. Adam recognized that Eve was his wife by marriage, and has verse 24 suggested this is the basis for marriages today in the present. In the Garden, the myth tells of how God places a serpent within Eden. The serpent knows that God has given all the fruits of the trees except one. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This particular tree is forbidden to be eaten by man. The serpent is crafty though and gets Eve to think she will be as knowledgeable as God by eating this fruit. She falls into temptation and eats of the tree. She then convinces Adam to also eat. He follows and the result is the final and horrible downfall of man. After Adam and Eve committed the first Sin this was a disobeying by God, and that’s why they had become ashamed of showing their bodies. The serpent is forced to travel on in belly which explains why they were not created with legs. To women, the explanation of child birth and the extremely horrible pains of labor are answered. Woman is also given a place in society as now having to be under the control of man. Women...
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...Charles Johnson Genesis 1-11 Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. In the Beginning God created The Earth the trees plants oceans grass ground and dirt, light and darkness, moon and sun. Then he created Man, and then created Woman from the man’s rib. Adam and Eve were created. Genesis 1:11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. Adam and Eve were God’s children, they were to walk the earth peacefully and eat from the gardens that God provided but not the Forbidden tree. Eve was persuaded into to eating the apple and persuaded Adam as well. This is how mankind became aware of right from wrong, they became vulnerable to temptation by worldly things, and they started to questions Gods very existence. And Man was cursed to the ground and work for their fruits; women were cursed pain during child birth and to always be submissive to their husbands. It’s easy to see now how after years and years after Adam and Eve there is so much corruption. My world view is that mankind has fallen for worldly things not remerging where they came from. Woman now marries Woman. Men marry men. God’s purpose for Adam and Eve was to populate the world with children and build families that would Praise God and be pure. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let...
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...Munch. The paper aims to explore different areas in which the characters portray jealousy, the reasons behind this feeling and what impact the feeling has brought to the characters directly involved. Narrowing down Cain and able in the book of Genesis, the soldiers in the Othello film and the two men in the green room, this essay will explain how the different characters of different times and different settings relate to each and how jealousy makes their stories correlate with one another. It will finally analyze what impact or effectiveness jealousy has on them. To begin with, Cain and Abel were the sons of the first human beings on earth and related to each other as brothers. Cain being the first-born engaged and interested himself in farming and working on the soil while his brother Abel worked as a shepherd who kept flocks of sheep. During the time of the offering, Cain offered the fruits of his harvested crops to God while Abel offered a sacrifice of the fat portions of his flock. In their offering, God favored Abel’s offering more than Cain’s offers, and hence, he became angry and was jealous of his brother. Cain’s jealousy increased immensely after God asked of his anger and told him to do right. At this point, Cain called Abel out to the field as an excuse and killed him. The Othello play begins...
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...Darren J Black Jr Daryl Neipp BIB 105 7 September 2015 My Biblical Worldview: How does Genesis 1-11 effect it? Introduction How does Genesis 1-11 effect my worldview and how does it contribute to my everyday life. Reading these chapters has a big impact on my life and there are so many things that it covers in such a condense amount of time. You have Adam and Eve being created and how that effects my worldview on marriage in the world. Also how we define ourselves as a man and a woman and the different roles of each of us that the bible defines for us. How Cain and Abel relantionship with each other defines how we should act and not become jealous with one another. The wickedness in the world when Noah was here and how the Lord saw the world was so evil and destroyed it, which is kind of how I look at our world today. There many topics in these chapters that I will discuss and explain how all of this effects my biblical world view today and what I think of all of it in this paper that I am writing today. Natural World The 1st chapter of the bible pretty much sets out the natural world and all that is in it, in Genesis chapter 1 to 2 the LORD our God makes everything light, darkness, land, sea and all the creatures in the world. He creates Adam and later Eve somewhere to live and basically live off the land. This chapter is the reason the natural world exist and that God was gracious to give us so much in it. Without the beast that roam the earth or the birds that...
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...Genesis: The Effects Today Bible 105-B27 LUO: Old Testament Survey 201320 Spring 2013 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx L33333333 Liberty University January 21, 2013 Genesis: The Effects Today We must begin with the question: what is Genesis? Genesis is the beginning of everything we know today. It is what we research, study, and learn today about everything that exists around us. The first eleven chapters of Genesis cover the period from the time of creation to the time of Abraham (Hester, 1962). It is the truth of the beginning of the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization. These four areas are discussed in this essay in reference of how they affect my worldview. When I read the first two chapters of Genesis, I find God as the creator of everything that we know in regards to natural world. The first chapter summarizes the creation of the world and the second scrutinizes it (Hinson & Yates, 2012). In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). The teachings on how the natural world came to be, as we know it today, have never wavered from the depictions Genesis gives. Today we can watch as the concept of evolution self-destructs. Many have recognized the total inability of chance and random processes to produce the incredible complexity we see around us, especially in living systems (Morris, 2007). Statements such as these are easily found with the use of your computer. The fact is, none of the theories of how our...
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...Essay Question 1: Biblical Worldview Rationale for the Biblical Worldview Essay Genesis 1-11 gives an excellent explanation of the beginning of many important realities which are some of the world’s most highly discussed topics including creation, existence, identity, relationships, early nations and civilizations. Genesis teaches of the natural world through the scriptures found in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 with the creation. Genesis chapters 3-5 tell of the fall of Adam and Eve into sin and how it would affect human relationships with each other and God. Genesis chapters 6-9 tell of the growing power of sin and God’s intent to restore creation through the Noahic covenant after the Great Flood. Finally in Genesis chapter 10 there is the table of nations as they descended from Noah’s sons, Genesis 11 speaks of the tower of Babel and begins to introduce Abram’s family beginning with his father Terah. Genesis chapters 1-11 provide lots of information pertinent to the rest of the bible and the way things are to be carried out across the nations. The Creation begins in Genesis 1:1, the first day, God creates the heavens and the earth but seen the earth as formless and empty, then its continued in verse 3 with God creating light and separating light (day) from darkness (night). In verse 6, the second day, God creates a vault (sky) to separate the water from water and in verses 9 and 10, the third day, dry ground appears it is called land and the water is called seas then God...
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...The first part of the book of Genesis tells the story of the beginning of the natural world, human identity, human relationships and civilization. Genesis 1-11 recounts the ancient history of the world from creation until the birth of Terah. Through this first setting of Genesis, we are able to understand how this world was created, and the reason why humans exist. It gives the answer to the most important questions of life: “Who am I?” and “Why we are here?” The Bible reveals the answers to our life questions, and this is the ultimate truth that molded my world view. Genesis 1-11 portrays God the creator as just, loving, and holy. Genesis Chapter 1 lays the foundation for all biblical truth as it assumes God is the creator of all things. The world was created instantaneously at God’s Word. He created this world for a purpose, and it was made to please him. God describes that He “saw all that he had made, and it was very good”( Genesis 1:31). Chapter 1 is very important because it reveals the creation of man and woman, and how the human was made. In verse 27, it says that “God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them”. This biblical truth is the answer to the origin of this world, but many modern scientific theories we have today present contradictory statements. For example, the Evolution theory. The truth that “God created man in his own image” informs us how special we are, and how different we are to animals. God...
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...rather than on her relationship with the One who had given her everything. (Read Genesis 3:6.) Sadly, by eating of the fruit, Eve showed that Jehovah was not the most important Person in her life. 2 The apostle Paul was inspired to say this about Abel “Through it he, although he died, yet speaks.” (Hebrews 11:4) Through what does Abel speak? Through faith, Abel was the first human ever to develop that sterling quality. So powerfully did he demonstrate faith that his example is alive, a vibrant standard that we can apply today if we learn from his faith and seed to imitate it, then the record of Abel is speaking to us in a very real and effective way. Imagine Abel seeing those cherubs when he was a boy. In their materialized form, their appearance surely bespoke immense power. And that “sword.” ever flaming, ever turning, inspired awe as well, as Abel grew up, did he ever find that those cherubs got bored and left their post? No. Day and night, year after year, decade after decade, those intelligent, powerful creatures stayed right in that spot. Avel thus learned that Jehovah God had righteous, steadfast servants. In those cherubs, Abel saw a kind of loyalty and obedience to Jehovah that he could not find in his own family. Surely that angelic example strengthened his faith. Meditating on all that Jehovah revealed about himself through creation, divine promised, and the examples of His servants, Abel found that his faith grew ever stronger. His example speaks to us, does it not...
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...started reading the Bible I have looked at the first 11 chapters of Genesis as merely a historical text to tell how God created the world, His grace, His love, His justice and His Holiness. However after reading it with an eye toward how it influences my world view and how I see the natural world, the human identity, human relationships and civilization I see there is a wealth of information overlooked in most people’s basic understanding of what could be considered the most important 11 chapters in the Bible. As we see from the beginning of the Book of Genesis a triune God created the entire natural world and all living things in six days. According to Moses writing he meant six twenty-four hour periods, this is based on the fact Moses used the word “Yom” for day in this book. “Yom” as used in other parts of the Bible refers to a day as a twenty-four hour period by this we can be sure Moses wasn’t referring to a day as some other period of time. Based on this God is showing us we are to work six days and rest on the seventh or Sabbath as seen in Genesis 2:2-3 (NIV) “Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” These first 11 chapters also show us the fallacy in evolution as the Bible clearly states He created all living things, from birds that fly in the air to the creature that lives in the bottom of the ocean, as seen in Genesis 1:20 (NIV) “And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures...
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...Pure Power vs. Justifications In both Genesis and Theogony, the storyline revolves around gods that rule over their realm. A major part of their everyday lives consist of the gods settling quarrels, trying to win a power struggle, or other adventures. It is during these experiences that the gods true dispositions comes out in the form of how they wield however much power they possess and how it affects those under them. Judging by their nature of power and authority, and the state of social order around them, God from Genesis is a more just leader than the gods from Theogony. The highest ranking gods in Theogony, at first Kronos then Zeus, use their power and authority in unjust ways, dismantling the social order around them. Kronos, the first god at the head of Mount Olympus was continuously insecure about the safety of his throne. His primary concern was that one of his children would overthrow him and succeed him. “He had in mind that no proud son of Heaven Should hold the royal rank among the gods Except himself... Therefore he never dropped His guard, but lay in wait and swallowed his children” (Hesiod 38). Kronos possessed the power to eliminate any possible inheritor to the throne by simply eating them. Kronos avoids a clash between gods for power by perpetrating in a unjust actions solely for his own benefit. As a result, the gods around him became disloyal to him as Rhea, the god who bore the children that Kronos ate asks her parents Earth and Heaven to “bring...
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...BIBL 104-B16 Date: 6/15/15 Old Testament Bible Dictionary Project: Genesis Genesis, the beginning, tells the story of the beginning of life coming to be. Hence, why the first verse is, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” I believe, that one line set the mood for the rest of the book of Genesis. It is said to be written sometime between 1450-1410 B.C. to the people of Isreal to record God’s creation of the world and His desire to have people set apart to worship Him. Moses, the writer, starts off with the creation (God working for six days and the resting on the seventh day after the creation of the heavens and earth, along with man and woman), then leads to the fall (the first sin – Adam and Eve), flood (God called Noah to build an ark, so God could restore creation by a flood), and then the formation of the new nations (confusion of languages). To really grasp the reading of Genesis, one must understand that the text centers on God’s promises. The major events are the creation of life (heavens, earth, man, and woman), temptation, sin, first murder, flood, and life after. The main personalities in Genesis are: God, Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah, Abram (Abraham), and so on. Abraham Abraham, or Abram, lived from about 2166 – 1991 B.C., as they say. Abraham was young when God called him for an assignment. He was faithful and did as he was told. His story is told in Genesis 11 – 25, but he is also mentioned in Exodus, Acts, Romans, Galatians, and...
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