Talking about the beginning of everything we only have two options to go through - the Divine theory or the Big Bang theory. But before great knowledge and wise men exist whom we pertain to scientists, we only believe in the first theory - the Divine creation. In the bible, we can read how God created the vast and lifeless earth and breath into it for life to exist. It explains the actual events of one of the most debated subjects of our current day...the origin of life. Genesis is the first book of the Law and also the first book of the entire Bible. The name Genesis literally means “In the Beginning”.
Genesis merely talks about a Narrative History, and Genealogies. It was Moses who wrote it about 1450-1410 B.C. The main personalities include Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Joseph. This book was written to record God’s creation of the world and to demonstrate His love for all that He created.
Chapters 1-11:28, Moses explains the creation of all things, Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth".
It was stated also the fall of man in sin and separation from God in chapter 3.
In chapter 5-9 God implemented His judgment on the wicked earth through a universal flood. God wipes out humanity and starts again, with one secluded family - the family of Noah.
From chapters 11:28-36, God begins to carry out His plan of redemption in the beginning stages of establishing His own nation of Israel. It is one faithful man, which God calls and promises to bless with a multitude of people and through them bless the entire world, it was Abraham.
In Chapters 37-50 God faithfully raises up and protects the generations of Abraham as He had promised. God blesses Abraham’s son and their son’s. Through their disappointments and failures, He displays His power and sovereignty in their lives, but in at the end of the book of Genesis, God’s people are in a foreign land and wondering about the promise land.
Below are the important events that have happened as summarized in the book of
Genesis.
Genesis 1:1 – Genesis 2:7 - Creation: How the world was made
Genesis 2:8 – Genesis 3:24 – Eden- the first earth-home
Genesis 4 – Cain and Abel – The first children
Genesis 5:1 – Genesis 9:17 – Noah’s ark and why it was built
Genesis 9:18 – Genesis 11:9 – The tower of Babel and why it was never finished
Genesis 11:27 – Genesis 12:20 – Abraham – A man who heard and obeyed God’s call
Genesis 7 – How Abraham ended a quarrel
Genesis 14 – Lot’s choice, and how it brought trouble
Genesis 15 – 17 – Hagar, Ishmael, and God’s promise to Abraham
Genesis 18 – Abraham gets strange visitors.
Genesis 19 – Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis 20- 21:21 – Ishmael – The little boy who became a great hunter
Genesis 22:1-20 – How Abraham gave Isaac back to God
Genesis 23:1 – Genesis 25:18 – How Abraham found a wife for Isaac
Genesis 25: 19 – Genesis 27:41 - The story of Jacob
Genesis 27:42 – Genesis 29:12 – the ladder that reached to heaven
Genesis 29:1-30 – Jacob and Rachel
Genesis 32-33 – Jacob and Essau
Genesis 37 – The story of Joseph and his coat of many colors
Genesis 39-41 – Pharaoh’s Dream
Genesis 42-45 – Joseph and his brethren
Though it has been proven by scientists that Big Bang Theory answers the inquiry of creation of the world and all that lies in it, we can never neglect that the book of Genesis has proved also that creation was made by God. It would be worth to share this one as to spread the good news.
God bless everyone!