Please read Chapters 1-11 of Genesis. Remember that I am more concerned with the quality of your reading than the quantity. Once you've read the assignment, pick out a key verse from the assigned chapters and do one of the following:1. Explain why you think this verse the key to understanding what the selection is about.
2. Explain why you think this verse is the best/most memorable in the assigned reading.
3. Explain why you think this verse is the most difficult/hard to understand in the passage.
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“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Holy Bible, pg. 1). (It felt like a sin not to cite it.) What better way to start off a book? God created the heaven and the earth and everything in it. This passage should leave no doubt in believers mind’s why they are here and how they came to be on earth. The passages is concise and to the point. While this passage is important, there are so many other passages from Genesis that could be used. Genesis talks about sin with Adam, Eve and the forbidden fruit. We do have free will, but sin is all around us. The subject of sin re-appears with Noah (chapter 6). The world was out of control so God did something about it. These passages go along way to help us understand Genesis. The passages that talk about the genealogy are a little bit like figuring out characters in a Tom Clany book, very confusing. Happy Blogging!
Genisis Chapter 1 verse 1, God created the heaven and the earth. I think that this really puts things into perspective. There would be nothing had it not been for these first moments. This has to be the most important verse in the old testament. What if instead God had decided to go do something else. There would be no Noah, no Adam and Eve and therefor no us, no History and no Hewbrews. There were other important verses about origonal sin, the wiping out of man due to his wickedness, and God's promise to man. But there would not have been any of that without creation.
After reading the first 11 chapters from Genesis, I find one verse in particular difficult to understand. This verse is found in Chapter 11 verse number 7. This verse seems odd to me in two respects, first why would the Lord want to confuse the speech of the people and make it so they cannot understand each others speech? The second thing I find odd is found not only in this verse but in two others. The words attributed to God in this verse have God refer to himself in a plural form. For example in verse 7 he says, “let us go down and confound their language”. Two other times this is found in Chapter 1 verse 26 God says “Let us make man in our image”, and in Chapter 3 verse 22 God says “behold the man is become as one of us”. Why do the words of God have him refer to himself by using "us" and "our"?
The thing I find difficult to explain is why the author of these first 11 chapters refers to God in a singular, one entity sense, for example the author usually writes God said. Then the other verses that I previously talked about, appear to be coming from God himself and seem to have God refer to himself in a plural or multiple God way. Of the first 11 chapters this is the part I find to be most difficult to understand.
"When you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." This quote is from the serpent on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Serpent tells Eve she will not die if she eats the fruit from the tree. I believe this passage is important, because the man and woman of today are derived from this event. If Adam and Eve did not eat the fruit from the tree where would we be today? It's important to realize that while we get evil from this there is also good! So many people look at this event as the epitome of evil but in all actuality it is not. If this story is true, good or bad we would not be at this point in time.
I really like the portion of the verse that says "And God saw that it was good." This phrase is said at the end of each day when God looks over his creation to admire it. I feel that this is probably the most important statment in the assigned reading for several reasons.
First of all the first couple of chapters explain the creation story of the nation. Every great nation has a creation story and this statement "It was good" proves that God had big plans for this people.
Also, God saw that what he created was good. I find comfort in knowing that. God has a plan for all of us and he wants good for us all. He had this same plan in mind for the Hebrew people.
I think that the passage that jumped out at me the most was Genesis 6:7. In this verse, God decides to destroy everything that he has made with a flood because 'I am sorry that I have made them'.
I remember reading this when I was younger and feeling sad. I was the type of child that hated to disappoint anyone. Reading this passage again brought me back there and I wondered how I would have felt if that was said about me. It is 100 times worse to hear God say this than if your parents were upset with you.
He was sorry he had ever made anything. And that to me is something we should remember, but also never forget that God gave us the rainbow and said he would not destroy creation again.
well i think what hit me the closest is that "god said let there be light.. and there was" kind of a big thing for myself... there is also the line "in the beginning god created heaven and the earth" another... big phrase... if once can call em phrases
Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night shall not cease." This verse is memorable because it shows God's promise to man has never been broken. The political side of me likes this verse because it shows that the hysterical cult of global warming is wrong!
The passage I feel is very memorable is Genesis 2:23, "Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.'" This to me was the true beginning of mankind. God knew that it was not good for Adam to be alone and that he needed someone to share life with. So, God tried to find a mate for Adam by creating all the animals but none seemed to be the right match. It was not until God put a deep sleep upon Adam and created Eve out of his rib that Adam had a suitable partner. Eve was different because she was created from Adam instead of made from the earth like the other animals. The two were now able to start their family and live happily ever after...or not.
There are so many memorable verses for me in this portion of Genesis. God’s creation is the foundation of all humanity. For me, the most memorable lies in the creation of the human race. I have always been interested in the intended relationships between men and women. Just as God created man out of His likeness, so too did He create woman. What is most interesting to me is that God could have created Eve out of Adam’s skull saying that women would be smarter and more advanced then men. He could have created Eve out of Adam’s heel meaning that men would walk all over women and push them around. Instead, God created Eve out of the side of Adam saying men and women will walk together, side by side and will, in this fashion, prepare each other for the kingdom of Heaven.
Genesis 1:27
"God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them."
I chose this verse because it kind of sets up the entire idea of what God's law is supposed to be about. In this first section, we see creation to Noah's Ark to Abraham, and in it we see the basis of what God wants the human race to be like. I felt this verse embodied the basic law that we see in the first part of Genesis, that men were created as images of God, and God expects us to act accordingly.
What we witness is this "law" being broken. Most notably, Cain killing Abel, the people at the time of the flood, and the people who built the city of Babel. If there is anything that I could of picked out of this section, this is it.
Tim Baustian
genesis 1:31
"god saw all that he had made and it was very good. and there was evening, and there was morning - the sixth day."
i chose this section becouse i belive it showes somethign very important. that it was "very good" god saw what he had created and accepted what he had created. he accepted that there was darkness aswell as light. he created a balence of nature, of good and evil in the terms of light and dark. i think thats important. becouse it shows that you cant have things one way and it sets in motion things to come.
by saying it was " very good" it also shows how he created a purposefull balence in the food chain. its marked that he created man to rule over the land and creatures. creating that balence of power in nature. makign it so its not caotic and insted orderly.
i think ,finaly, by god looking over what he made and marking it as "good" just shows how there will inevitable be a balence of all things. it dosnt state that everything is "perfect" just "very good" a carfull wording showing that "good" is truly the best sometihng can be, and perfect is not a true aim. for the world cant be perfect, it can be good. but there will always be that darkness lurking around the corner. something that one must always be aware of.
Genesis 4:6 stuck out when I was reading the assigned passage; it was both a memorable verse and a verse that helps to understand one of the themes of the selection.
"Then the Lord said to Cain, 'Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.'"
First, this verse deals with a main theme of the selection--sin and the fall of man. The fall, of course, occured in this passage and some of the first effects of it are seen in the assigned reading--the murder of Abel, the acts of man that troubled God enough to send a flood, etc. This quote, where God confronts Cain's anger after God found Abel's offering better than Cain's, describes sin as something waiting to infect us all, something that needs to be mastered and overcome. This verse then is key to understanding what the world was like after sin came into it, and sin is an important theme of the entire Bible save a few chapters.
The passage was also memorable in the selection. It describes sin in a unique and visual way and it is still applicable today. I think these two reason are why it kept coming to mind as I was thinking of a verse to discuss.
Chapter 3, The Fall of Man, was particularly interesting to me because it shows God's love to his children, even though they had disobeyed. It taught them that there was consequences to what they did.
It reminds me of my parents. They taught by example of what was right and wrong but also by TELLING
us what we should and shouldn't do. This is what God did. As children when we did wrong we lived with the consequences no matter how harsh. It was our choice to do what we did. My dad always told us that if we ended up in trouble he wasn't going to come bail us out it was our own fault.
God was harsh with Adam and Eve, but I believe that this is a great lesson to all that you have to take own up to what you did and to live with the consequences.
The verse that is most memorable to me is; Chapter 9:13. God gave us an awesome rainbow to remind us that He will never destroy mankind.
It brings back memories of when I was in grade school and I often think of when I painted the rainbow. It was beautiful.
God was so sorry that he gave back something so grand to look at and it will be shared for generations to come.
The verse that is most memorable for me is Chapter 9:13. God set a beautiful rainbow in the sky that tells the generations He is God and He made a covenent with the earth. He will never destory mankind with a flood. He must have felt awful so He gave us the rainbow.
This verse is one of many that shows us even though we make mistakes in life, He can make something good out of it. God is so kind.
"Whenever the rainbow appears into the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting convenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on earth." Genesis 9:16
This verse I find the most memorable because it shows God's grace and mercy. God could have ended mankind with the flood. It also shows God's faithfulness because he never again flooded the whole earth.
One of the verses that stuck in my mind was Genesis 3:20, which said, "The man named his wife Eve (meaning "the life-giving one"), for he said 'she shall become the mother of all mankind'" Which I see to be extremely true. Although I think we often see Mary as the "mother of all mothers", essentually Eve was the original mother and from her came many nations.
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