Genesis 3

A serpent tricks the woman into eating the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden. She brings the fruit to Adam, they realize good from evil. God punishes humans by cursing the soil and painful child birth. Then God expels them from the garden because Adam and the Eve could eat from the Tree of Life and live forever. God then places mighty angles with flaming swords to guard the entrance to the garden.

Notes of interest:

Adam gives the woman the name (Eve).

Angles are not humans. Angles could be what God refers to when he talks in the “we” and “us” format. This probably answers the question under Genesis 1, however it isn’t concrete enough for me to officially call it.

There exists a Tree of Life, guarded by angles, somewhere in Eden.

Genesis 2

On the 7th day, God blessed the day and rested. God had made Eden, and in the center if the garden planted 2 trees, one of Life and one of Conscience. He put man in the garden and told him to eat anything but from fruit from the Tree of Conscience, for it will open your eyes and make you aware of right and wrong. Then God decided to make woman from man as “a helper suited to his needs.”. God took a rib from Adam (the first man) and made woman (woman means taken out of man).

Notes of interest:

God didn’t tell woman about the fruit or tree, only Adam.

I can’t find anywhere how Adam came to be called Adam. In Genesis 1 28 God clearly tells man to multiply and fill the earth, He calls men masters of the fish, birds and animals. For those of you confused by this I found my answer in Genesis 2 4. This is a summary of the events that were over summarized in Genesis 1… So this isn’t strictly chronological.

Genesis 1

God creates the heavens, world, animals, and man in just 6 days.
Day 1 – He creates light and darkness
Day 2 – He creates the world itself
Day 3 – He creates land, seas, grass, plants and fruits
Day 4 – God creates the sun and the moon to mark the days, years, and bring about the seasons
Day 5 – He creates fish and birds
Day 6 – He creates animals, and wildlife. Then God said “Let us make men in our image, in our likeness” and God made man.

Notes of interest:

Since God doesn’t create the sun nor moon nor stars until the 4th day, we obviously cannot consider a day 24 hours (or 1 revolution of earth) can we? We don’t know how fast earth would be spinning up til this point since the universe hadn’t been created yet.

God says in every English translation I can find that He makes men in our image. He is implying multiple gods. However he could be talking about the Holy Trinity (that seems farfetched). This point of interest is going on my list of questions to be answered later.

Genesis 1 26-28 repeats how God made man like Himself. It just keeps saying the same thing over and over. This must be real important. First it tells me that God is male, second it tells me that God must be human like (Jesus?)

Introduction

Hello All! I've decided that the best way to grow my faith is to journal my faith and readings. With that in mind, I will be reading a part of the New Living Bible (Christian) everyday and recording/summarizing all I read here. I hope you learn a little something too. After this, I'll read other religious books and do the same. Have fun and visit my website designed to grow in faith. http://www.religionfocus.com/.
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KAG