Gen 3

The fall of man. This one has to be short today, I have a lot to do. It is pretty simple when you look at this literally. Adam and Eve are walking through the garden. They run up on a serpent and it talks to the wife. Adam is still close by but doesn't stop anything. After they discover that they are naked God ask Adam about it and he puts it off on his wife. She then puts it off on the serpent. The serpent is cursed, Eve is cursed, and Adam is cursed. But the curses all glorify God in some way. Through Eve having pains in child birth, Jesus was glorified because he was then able to be like man and be born through that process. Through man working the soil he was able to provide sacrifices to God and because thorn and thistle grew Jesus was able to tell a parable and depict what sharing your faith is. The serpent is the most interesting curse. This is the first prophesy that we see of Jesus defeating satan in the Bible.

Gen 2

This almost sounds like Gen 1 and Gen 2 are completely disconnected. If you were to just start reading in verse 4 of Gen 2 you would see everything take place that happens in Gen 1 just not in the same order. The earth gets created, it gets flora and fauna and man. Just not in that order. It says that when God created man nothing else was on the earth. So for me this begs the question: which account is right? I know that technically both are right but I don't have the knowledge and the exegetical know how to make the distinctions I need to make but I can recognize the difference. Towards the end of Gen 2 when woman is created Adam says "at last", it almost seems that he was waiting on God to create her. The rivers are also a subject that has been well researched it just seems that to me the geographical location of the Garden of Eden would be around Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. That's just my opinion. I guess that's what the whole idea of a blog is, to convey your opinion.

Gen 1

I am writing this because it is a study technique I want to investigate. I have never been good at studying the bible. I have never been good at studying for that matter. So I want to try this and see if it helps me. I am also not a writer. I have friends that are. They can write beautiful prose and stories that would rival John Grisham. I am not that type of writer. I don't have complete thoughts most of the the time, so the majority of my sentences are incomplete. I apologize ahead of time for my grammatical inadequacies.

Now that you know why I am doing this....

I am going to read through the Bible chapter by chapter expounding on every one. I will explain what I think that particular chapter is trying to say. I am NOT trying to convince anyone that they should believe what I am writing I am merely using this blog as a form of note taking. So if you do not agree with what I say I would love to know what you think but it will most likely not change what I have already stated.

Now to get started...

Genesis 1:

This is probably the most disputed chapter in the entire Bible. So this is a great start. There are so many beliefs on what the days mean and how long did it really take. I find myself at a junction. I trust the Bible. I know every word is true. I also know God is all powerful and can do anything. I also know that God created the universe. What I don't think a lot of people look at is that this is not the story of creation for the entire universe this is the creation of one singular planet. In verse 1 it says that God created the heavens and the earth, now... This indicates there is period of time between the time the "heavens and earth" were created and the "now". There's no telling how long that length of time was. I also take into consideration that since God created this universe He also created the physics that causes it to function like it does. I believe that God performs mighty acts but I also believe that He does them in the realm He created. In verse 1 it also states that the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. This would be God's presence physically on the earth. To me that is just an amazing thought. I'll talk about the six days and the creation of man a little later. For a first post I think this is ok.

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