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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

090225: Genesis 1-3

Genesis 1-2
- “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image.”
- “God saw all that he had made, and It was very good.”
- “By the seventh day, God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work creating that he had done.”
- “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
- “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden…”
- God told Adam: “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”
- Of the many trees in the Garden of Eve, there are only two that has a name: Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
- How the 1st woman, Eve, was created: “While [Adam] was sleeping, [God] took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.”

Genesis 3 “Fall of Man”
- God curses the serpent.
- God curses the woman: childbearing pain, insecurity of husband
- God curses the man: “through painful toil” will he eat his food
- “The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them… After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.”

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