Please read through my Genesis Study Questions and then read Chapters 1-11 of Genesis. I am more concerned with the quality of your reading than the quantity, and if this material is difficult for you, I'd much prefer that you read carefully the first four or five chapters than struggle though the whole assignment. If you are familiar with this material and find it relatively easy, read through the whole thing.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.
If you would prefer, you can take whatever study question you find the most interesting and add your answer to that question here.
The establishment of genealogy throughout Genesis is something I noted while reading it. Portions of Genesis 4, 5, and 10 list the descendents of Adam and Eve. A part of 11 contains Noah's descendents. I liked seeing a list of the early 'players', especially the connections between everyone.
ReplyDeleteAdam/Eve -> Cain/Abel/Seth
Adam -> Noah
Noah -> Shem/Ham/Japeth
(and so on)
Genesis 9:11- “I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” I think that this is the most important part of the reading because it is the first real promise that God makes to his people. He is saying that no matter what happens for now on He will not take it out on all of humankind. Even though humans are evil, He is willing to let them try.
ReplyDeleteGenesis 3:7 shows Adam and Eve's eyes being opened to the evil that they have brought upon the world. Before this moment they were living in a perfect world and in one instant evil came into the world. This verse is memorable because this event more than anything else changed the coarse of history according to Hebrew tradition.
ReplyDeleteGenesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. I have always been intrigued by this passage and the concept that Adam & Eve were naked because they did not know Shame before eating of the Tree of Life. Nakedness starts off accepted/normal/Godly and immediately religion makes sex a nasty thing to be hidden away and not talked about. There is a painting (by who I don’t remember), but it’s of Adam & Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden and it captures their despair perfectly. The shame the painting conveys as they’re hunched over clutching their crotches…from who I still don’t know if they were husband and wife and the only two people on earth.
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