GENESIS: the creation week
Introduction
? This presentation is about the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Its main purpose will be to educate you, the audience on hermeneutics, the literal and contextual interpretations of the creation story, as well as the history, author, date and importance of the book of Genesis.
? Throughout history, people have asked the ultimate question 'Where did it all begin?' For the majority of fundamentalist Christians, the belief is that the beginning of all life itself came from the supreme power of the Almighty Lord God. This point of view appears in the Bible, but can this be taken in a completely literal sense? Did one God create it all? Through examination of the literal and contextual meanings truth and fiction can be separated.
The Creation Week
? Genesis is the first book of the Bible and serves as an introduction to the rest of its writings and the overall history and basis of the Jewish religion. Scientifically, it presents rather irrational concepts, but has been widely accepted in a literal sense by most Jews and Christians.
In short the text says that on the first day ?in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth' and created light, thus separating the night from the day.
On the second day the sky is created and ?then god made the sky and he separated the waters above from the waters below'
The third day God separated land from the waters ?God called the dry land earth, and the waters he called the seas.' And drew forth grasses and plants and other foliage.
The fourth day God adds the sun, the moon and the stars
The fifth day comes and god then creates the fish and birds show in the text as, 'let the waters bring ...