My Summary of Genesis 1 through 3
Gen. 1: God created everything in seven days. Including man in God's own image. And it was good.
Gen. 2: God rested on the seventh day. 2:4 to 24 described in detail day 6 when man, woman, and animals were created.
Gen. 3: A serpent talks to the woman and she chooses to eat from the tree of life. Man eats too. They become aware of good and evil. God curses us to have pain in childbirth, women to serve under men, man to toil for resources and both are banished from Eden.
Thoughts:
An incredible story about the creation of everything that we can perceive today. While it does not say our purpose in being created it certainly tells us how. It seems to also show how we are even more like God than He necessarily desired us to be in that we know of evil even though He initially did not mean for us to. There is no story as to how the serpent came to be in the garden and how he was "evil" before Eve sinned. I also wonder why God put the tree there at all. Did He not know what would happen? If so, why curse us?
Prayer:
Thank you Lord for giving me this look into the very beginning of the world that led to my life. Please give me an understanding on how to remember your love in creating us and a fear of your power. Even then you knew that I would live someday, and I humbly ask that you direct my ways now.
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