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When Written: around 1500 B.C
Synopsis: Genesis is the first book of the King James Bible. The title means “beginning.” It encompasses all that is God and that we understand about God and that we understand about ourselves and the world in which we live.
God is the creator. God created all that we can see and not see with our eyes, feel or touch with our bodies, smell and hear with our senses. “And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands;” Hebrews 1:10
If a believer refuses to accept the first statement of Genesis because of a belief in evolution or any other position offered today in the halls of academia, in the media, or even in the churches, the believer cannot be a disciple of God. The reader of the Bible either has to accept all of it or none of it. There can be no picking and choosing which passages to believe and which to reject. If one verse is not true, then none of them are true. This is a crucial decision each reader needs to make as the very character of God is put in question. Can He be trusted? Are His promises true? Will I have forgiveness of sins and eternal life in Heaven when I shed this body? The Old and New Testament writers believed the words of the Bible to be true.
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
Numbers 23:19, AV
“In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”
Titus 1:2, AV
Genesis is classified as a historical book as it gives the history of man from Adam and Eve to the beginning of the Israelite nation, ending with the rise of Jacob’s son Joseph to the second most powerful person in the Egyptian government. Since it is a book of beginnings, it records the first people, the first sin of rebellion, the first family unit, the first sibling rivalry, the first murder, the first counseling session, the first sexual sins, the first massive climate change as a result of the first flood, the first career opportunities, the first drunk, the first land disputes, the first water rights, the first famine, the first judgement of God upon an entire city, and the first one world government to list just a few. Although traditionally read as historical literature, it is full of prophecy and spiritual wisdom.
Key Verse: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1