Genesis Bible Articles
Genesis as a Revelation
Three things can be said regarding Genesis as a revelation of God:
A- It is a great revelation - Genesis discloses that man never could learn for himself. Genesis is the only book of the history of the creation.
The Birth of a Nation, From Abraham to Joseph
Around 400 years after the Flood, God appeared to a man called Abram, who lived in the Middle East, in the city of Ur.
God said to him: “Leave your country and your family, and go to a place that I will show you. I will make from you a great nation, and your name will be very well known. . All the families of the earth will be blessed by you”.
Noah and the Big Flood
With time, the descendants of Adam and Eva began to populate the land.
While seeing that t human cruelty was everywhere, and that the people only thought about bad things, God was sad.
And He said: “I created the human race, but now I will destroy it “. However, God was satisfied with Noah, the only fair man of that epoch; a man that obeyed him completely.
The Divided Family of Cain and Abel
Eva was pregnant and, when she gave birth to a baby boy, she said: “The Lord gave me a son “She named the child Cain.
Later Eva had another son, Abel. Abel decided to be a shepherd of sheep, and Cain chose to be a farmer. On one day chosen for God, Cain congregated some products from his farming and offered them to the Lord. Abel, however, offered a little sheep. God accepted gladly the offer from Abel, but he rejected the offer from Cain.
The Fall Of Humanity
In the pretty and recently created garden, where Adam and Eva lived, Satan, disguised as a serpent, met with Eva.
This serpent was slier than all the animals that God had created. he asked Eva: “You are certain that God said to you were not to eat from the tree of the garden?”
