In today’s study, we read more about God’s response to sin and evil.
One of the key elements in a narrative is a conflict. What then, is the problem of life according to the Bible? In the Christian worldview, Gen 3 is an important passage and it is important to understand what it says before moving on to understand the rest of the Bible.
With this in mind, let us begin!
Gen 2 recounts for us the creation of the world again. Why? Read on to find out.
In the previous study, we learnt about the creating God in the opening verses of Genesis 1. Picking up from the six day account of creation, these verses focus specifically on one aspect of God's creation -- Man.
What is a mandate? The dictionary defines mandate as "an official order or commission to do something" (if it is a noun) or to "give (someone) authority to act in a certain way" (if it is a verb). Let us learn from Gen 1, what is the official order and command given to one special part of God's creation.
- The first chapter of the Bible is about the Creator God, not the creation (Gen 1:1-2a)
- The first chapter of the Bible is about a certain kind of God, not the god we invent (Gen 1:2b-6)
- The first chapter of the Bible is about God’s creating: giving order to the formless, filling up the void (Gen 1:7-26)