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Latest revision as of 05:27, 21 October 2024
Genesis in Context, A personal review of the first eleven chapters of Scripture
by Bro Roger Evans, 2021 {{#setmainimage:Sutherland logo-icon.png}}
ISBN 978-0-473-57589-2 (including revisions, October 2021)
Contents
To the Reader
Preface: The Importance of Context
1. The First Creation Account
2. The Firmament in Scripture: Ancient Cosmology
3. The Second Creation Account
4. Sin enters the Temple
5. The Origin of Death
6. Priesthood in Exile
7. Genealogies and Longevities
8. Un-creation and Re-creation: The Flood
9. New Beginnings
10. Authorship and Genre in Genesis
11. The Two Books of God
12. Moving Forward
Appendix: Interpreting Scripture
References
To the Reader
How we arrived at the starting line is not important. What matters is running the race and claiming the prize.
“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”
“In Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love. You were running so well. Who has obstructed you?”
The purpose of this book is to remove stumbling stones, not to place more. If it increases your faith, then it has achieved its purpose. If not, set it aside, and keep running.
This discussion document begins and ends with the unchallenged premise that the Bible, from beginning to end, is the inspired Word of God.
In examining the nature of that inspiration through context and genre it seeks to comprehend and to confirm God’s Message.
It is not a book of answers, but a book of ideas.
The challenge to all readers is to set aside all preconceptions and to search the Scriptures openly and honestly, to see “whether these things be so”.
Further Note. For those wishing to consult an authoritative and scholarly appraisal of Genesis, the NIV Application Commentary on Genesis (2001) is recommended.
Roger Evans, 2021
