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  • Genesis 8:  Earth 2.0 

    In the eighth chapter of Genesis, it says that God remembered Noah and his family and the rain stopped. A wind blew and the waters subsided. In the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark settled in the mountains of Ararat. That is modernly Turkey’s northeastern border with Iran* and Armenia.  After waiting 40…

  • Genesis 7: The Flood

    God told Noah to take his family of eight including his wife, 3 sons and 3 daughters-in-law and himself, along with 7 pairs of each clean animal and two pairs of each unclean animal into the boat. Clean animals are later shown to be the as ones used for sacrifice. God says in seven days…

  • Genesis 6: We Built a Zoo

    Chapter 6 begins with a curious account of the sons of God having children with the daughters of Earth. There are two main interpretations the “sons of God,” either they are followers of God having children with non-believers, or some sort of angels that came down and had offspring with humans. The results of these…

  • Genesis 5: Generations

    This chapter repeats the part about God creating man, the word adam meaning of earth, “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.” Genesis 5:2  Then it says Adam lived another 800 years after Seth was born and had more daughters and sons. After Seth…

  • Genesis 4: Three Brothers

    Adam and Eve have a son and Eve names the boy Cain meaning “gotten a man with the Lord’s help.” She sees this child as a gift from God, as many parents do. They have a second son, Abel, meaning breath.  Abel keeps sheep and Cain works the ground. After a while, Cain brings an…

  • Genesis 3: In the Garden

    The story of beginning takes a turn when the serpent starts talking. Being “craftier” than the other animals, it asks the woman if God actually said they shall not eat of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Is this a talking animal book? No. No more animals speak except for one time later.…

  • Genesis 2:21 Woman

    The Lord caused the man to fall asleep and took his rib and made a woman. The man said “at last, bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.” He called her woman meaning taken from man. Adam saw himself in Eve.  The text says, “therefore a man shall leave his parents and join…

  • Genesis 2: Begin Again

    In the second chapter of Genesis, God rests on the seventh day. God declares the seventh day holy, which means set apart, because it is the day he rested from his labor. Taking a break from work is part of the rhythm of life from the beginning. Then the story rewinds. The writer describes an…

  • Genesis 1: 1-13: Beginnings

    The book of Genesis, meaning beginning, starts with God creating our world. It says the Earth was formless and empty and the spirit hovered over the face of the waters. God said, let there be light, and there was light.  While Genesis starts our modern Bible, chronologically the oldest book, Job, references the foundation of…

  • 2 Corinthians 13: Extreme Church Makeover 

    In this section, Paul repeats his warning for a third time. He says if he comes again he will not spare them. The Corinthians keep questioning Paul, but he says they must examine themselves. If they want to see Christ speaking in him, they must prepare for his strength because even though Jesus was crucified…