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What do you see?
Too often, we modern folk ask Genesis to answer modern questions, like how old is this water-covered ball that spins at 1000 mph in space while orbiting a nuclear-powered fireball?
But Genesis wasn’t written to us.
It was written for us, but not to us.
It was written to people asking ancient questions.
What are those ancient questions?
You probably didn’t realize that the birds and the bees were created on day 1 … but to tell this story, we need to talk about sex.
What do you see?
The phrase “These are the generations of...” as an introduction is used 11 times in Genesis.
Before the Patriarchs: The need for a family of God
2:4 Heaven and earth
5:1 Adam’s line
6:9 Noah
10:1 Shem, Ham, and Japheth
11:10 Shem
The Patriarchs in the Promised Land: Establishing the family of God
11:27 Terah
25:12 Ishmael
25:19 Isaac
36:1 Esau
36:9 Esau
The Patriarchs in Egypt: Incubation for the Covenant People
37:2 Jacob
As we look, let’s ask ourselves . . . is this how we would tell this story?
Chapter 1: God arranges the furniture
Chapter 2: God puts the man in the garden and creates woman—man was incomplete without her
Chapter 3: Woman is “deceived”, both are disobedient.
They experience adolescence.
The serpent and the ground are cursed, but the man and the woman are not.
God is merciful.
God provides for his children as they leave the garden.
The man names his wife “Eve”.
Chapter 4: God disapproves of Cain’s offering.
Cain is emotional and has bad attitude.
Cain kills Abel.
Abel’s “blood cries out to me from the ground”.
Cain is cursed and cannot work the land.
Cain descendents develop culture, murder, and polygamy.
Remember that we are still answering ancient questions.
“Why am I like this?”
Do you have any relatives who have lived a very long time?
Would you be the good twin or the evil twin?
Do you ever feel like a background character in someone else’s story?
Is it hard to get out of your parents’ shadow?
gn5:6-20
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