Please read my study questions on Genesis and then Genesis Chapters 1-11. 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 (1) 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.
Gensis 1:3 And God said let there be light; and there was light.
ReplyDeleteI think this is the most memorable line in the genesis. The reason for it, is the very nature of the line. For whatever reason everyone know it. People who are not Christian or haven't read the Old Testament still know this line.
Every time you hear it, one knows exactly where it comes from. Even if the words are changed.
Genesis 9:13- "I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world."
ReplyDeleteTo me, this verse is a key to understanding what the selection is about. We are humans and have made erronous choices that ruined God's perfect blessed creation. God made a covenant with Adams which he broke, and throughout Genesis we read stories of human disobedience. This verse shows that while we as humans are flawed and at times incapable of keeping our promises, God has left us with a reminder that He will always keep His promises.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of deep. And the spirit of god was hovering over the face of the waters.
ReplyDelete-What could be more of an important verse for the understanding of Genesis 1-11. The very first verse in Genesis is the very most important part. It explains what the rest of Genesis continues to explain. The idea that "god" created earth and all things. It is giving humans a base for understanding the world and why they exist. It is the groundwork for everything Genesis is built on.
Genesis 3:1 "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made."
ReplyDeleteI find this verse quite difficult to understand because the Bible says that God created the earth and all of its creatures, so does this verse mean that God did not make the serpent? Also, the fact that the serpent is evil is troubling because in verse 1:31 the Bible says "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good."
Genesis 11: 8 "So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city."
ReplyDeleteI think this passage is important and memorable because the assigned section of Genesis is about the origins of all things especially mankind. Mankind came from Adam but almost ended in the time of Noah. What happened at Babel shows us the origins of all people and nations. With new languages people spread out and went all over the place. This passage tries to explain where we, as in all of people, came from. -Zach Kuhlman
The most memorable to me is the Tower of Babel; Genesis 11:6-7 "The LORD said, 'If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.'" From this passage we see where all the languages of the world come from; English, French, Hebrew, Latin, and a whole list of others. The people were so set on being able to see God that they were willing to build a tower that reached to the heavens. Whats even more interesting is he confused the languages of the people then and today some people know five or six different languages. It just amazes me how much we have learned and now we can communicate with different cultures and people when the purpose of confusing the languages was to eliminate the problem of building the tower in the first place.
ReplyDeleteGenesis 7:1 "Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Go into the ark and take all your family with you. I have seen that you alone are good among those that are living now"
ReplyDeleteThis is memorable to me because as you read through the 5th and 6th chapters in Genesis, you read that God has come to find that God believes he has screwed up with man. But Noah has come along to show that maybe men could be able to save and bring them back to the right path
Tyler Munson,
ReplyDeleteI like 2:17 & 3 dealing with the tree of knowledge and that man must not eat from its branches. It goes well with the intro in the Gleason book saying that man was free to choose his path and the tree representing the origins of his own ego, and the serpent (aka Satan)tempting man to fuffill his own wants and needs. Because of Adam and Eve went against God's wishes they introdused sin into the world and banisment from Eden, and this is how man became distant from God and began a long line of event in order to get closer to him.
Genesis 3:15 "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head and you will strike his heel." I think this verse is one of the most memorable verses in this section of the Bible because it is the first recorded promise of a savior from sin. It also helps explain what is going on in this part of Genesis. God had made Adam and Eve perfectly, just as he had the rest of creation, and all he asked in return is that they show their love for him by obeying his command. Instead of doing this, however, they decided to follow their own selfish desires and sinned by eating the forbidden fruit. This verse shows that by doing this they had fallen out of God's grace and were in need of a savior. One thing that may be difficult to understand about this verse, however, is knowing that in order for Christ to 'crush the serpent's head' his heel would have to be struck. When Jesus died on Good Friday many people who had believed in him began having doubts, because they did not understand this section of scripture that explained that his death would pay for the sins of the whole world. It would be easy for people today to have these same doubts as well when they first hear of Jesus' death. Thankfully, by God's grace, however, we can know that although Jesus did die, he was able to crush the serpent's head and rise again on the third day.
ReplyDeleteJohn Rawerts
One of the most memorable verses in this selection was Genesis 8:21. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done." God is pleased with Noah's obedience at this time and makes a promise first to himself and then later to mankind that never again will He destroy creation in the way He did. I like this verse because it is the beginning of man's covenant with God. Later God even gives a visual reminder (rainbow) that His promise will not be broken. This verse shows the just love of God for His people and His knowledge of our hearts.
ReplyDelete1:1 - "In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth", the key reason for this verse is to let people know god is the creator of the heavens and earth.
ReplyDeleteI think the most memorable selection is the fall of man. When God punishes the serpent, woman and then man. And at the end of all that after they are banished. God placed a Cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the entrance into Eden.
ReplyDelete27 So God created mankind in his own image,
ReplyDeletein the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
I think this is the most important verse because it really shows how important we are, mankind, are to God. I think this is so important to look at because its means alot to know that we are created in the image of God and cares about us that much to create us in a way that is like him. Its hard to understand that something so great would do that but it means alot to know that he cares enough to replicate himself through us.
tom quigg
Gen 1:28 "God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
ReplyDeleteThis verse is importat because it shows the dominance that God put onto man. He is the ruler of every living creature on the earth. He is to "subdue the earth" and use it as his own. The earth is man's and we are to fill it and use its abundant resources.
Genisis 6:7 "And the Lord said, "I will completely wipe out this human race that I have created. Yes, and I will destroy all the animals and birds too. I am sorry I ever made them."
ReplyDeleteI think this verse is memorable because it shows how far humans had turned from God. God was willing to wipe out his creations rather than observe their wickedness anymore.
Genesis 8:21 "When the Lord smelled the sweet odor, he said to himself: 'Never again will I doom the earth because of man, since the desires of man's heart are evil from the start; nor will I ever again strike down all living beings, as I have done."
ReplyDeleteI think this is an important verse because it shows that God has decided to never punish man as severely as he had done with the flood. God thinks that man will always be tempted to do evil things and they did so even when they lived in the Garden of Eden.
Kitty Esser
I can honestly say that up until now I've never questioned Adam and Eve being the first humans, but it has been brought to my attention that they could have been the first, but it seems likely that there were others created as well. It confuses me when in Genesis 1:26-27 it talks about God making man in his image, "male and female created he them" and then over in chapter 2 He only creates Adam out of the dust of the ground, and then out of Adam comes Eve, and then it gives no account in Chapter 4 that Eve bore children beyond Cain and Abel for Cain to marry at that time when he left the presence of God and went to the land of Nod, so it could be that his wife was from another created line entirely. It's interesting to think about, but also confusing.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about the same thing, with the different account. But I was wondering if maybe Chapter 2 is kind of like a mini look at how he created them on Day 6 in Chapter 1? But a lot of the lineage listed through these chapters talks about the first child born, then later they had more sons and daughters and lived until an outrageous amount. Do you think it is similar that the same applies for Adam and Eve? But then in chapter 5 it discusses the other children Adam had.
DeleteGenesis 2:9 "and out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
ReplyDeleteGenesis 2:16-17 "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die"
I think together these are two of the most memorable/important verses in Genesis because they show that since the very beginning of man God gave us a choice. Even though he commanded that they shall not eat of it the choice of doing so was still there. God didn't wrap the tree up in chains and try to hide it from them. He clearly warned them and they chose to disobey him. To this day we still have a choice about every thing that we do. It's up to us to accept Christ into our lives and it's up to us if we decide to sin or not.
3:12-- The man said, "The woman you put here with me-- she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
ReplyDeleteI think this verse is particularly memorable from this chunk of reading, if only because it seems somewhat comical. It's almost like it is clear to see how quickly the fall affected every aspect of human nature, immediately causing us to play the blame game. I find the fall of man so interesting, because I used to think that Eve ate, went and found Adam, then he ate. But it says in vs. 6 that Adam was right there with her while she was being deceived by the snake. And the entire idea about how Eve was deceived. It almost makes you angry when you think about how she was confused. She took what God had said (Do not eat the fruit), altered it (Do not even touch the fruit), and when the serpent proved her she was wrong (not dying when she touched the fruit), she assumed God had been wrong. And Adam watched this all take place, then blamed her. What a bummer...
Terra Burley
Genesis 3:15 "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his head. To the woman he said, i will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
ReplyDeleteThis seems to be a very important part of Genesis, as it is the first time that man had the knowledge of good and evil and is the first instance in the Bible in which God is punishing the people he has put on earth for disobeying him. Through out the Bible God's wrath seems to show itself over and over again it becomes a recurring theme over the course of history.
Chapter 1, verses 20-31. It basically says on the fifth day God created animals and on the sixth day he created people. Ever since I was a kid this has confused me. There is no mention of dinosaurs or other prehistoric animals. Are they grouped in with the animals? If so does that mean that the seven days it took to create everything aren't in fact literal days? Maybe they symbolize a certain time period. That is one part I have difficulties understanding.
ReplyDeleteGenesis Ch 6 verse 3. "Then the Lord said, 'my spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they ar eonly mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.'"
ReplyDeleteI found this verse interesting since in Chapter 5 it talked about the descendants of Adam and how they were living to be 700, 800, and even 900 years old. Also reading further on in Genesis it was surprising to see that once this verse was said Abraham lived to be 175 years old contradicting the previous statement.