Genesis

Overview of the Book:

Two parts Beginning of all things (Chap 1-11)

Beginning of the Jewish race and nation (12-50)

Written by Moses

Genesis may be the most important book of the Bible. Some consider it a book of stories (Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, Noah, etc.). Most important written work in history. Foundation of all things; matter, energy, life, marriage, family, society, morality, law, even the 7-day week.

Book of firsts: First human beings, marriage, birth, death, lie, trial, murder, first self defense, ownership of property, natural death, rainfall, boat, nations formed, cities built, calendar established, first example of God's grace, and first covenant.

-Most quoted by other Bible authors, except Psalms and Isaiah.

Quoted as literal text by Jesus Himself-

Digging deeper:

Gen. 1:1- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:2- The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

The heavens and earth refers to the physical earth and the atmosphere, not the heaven where God dwells.

“In the beginning, God…” Our world and everything in it had a beginning. There was a point before this existed. Every man has contemplated the question of where did everything begin; even atheists pursue the question of the beginning of all things. The theory of the Big Bang is the secular answer, but it still begs a question of where did the material for the Big Bang come from?

The reason the unbelieving world has no answer for what came before everything, is that they limit their sources of information.

We must be willing to acknowledge that there was a source of all things, which implies an authority, a judge. It also implies that if everything had a beginning, then it likely has an end as well. There will also be a point when it has ceased to exist.

2nd Pet. 3:3- Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 2nd Pet. 3:4- and saying, “ Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” 2nd Pet. 3:5- For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 2nd Pet. 3:6- through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 2nd Pet. 3:7- But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

The unwillingness to acknowledge the Biblical account of creation begins with an unwillingness to acknowledge a higher authority Who holds us accountable. Revelation tells us that this world does indeed have an end.

Rev. 21:1- Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.