Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Genesis”
Genesis 18:6 We don’t speak of a hearth very often now. It is an old word used for a fireplace or the place in a house where the fire was and the family would cook on it and receive the warmth from it. It was the gathering place on cold winters nights where they would sit and eat and talk …
Genesis 2:4-17, Matthew 26:55-56, Luke 23:1-24, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Revelation 22:1-5 Between Two Trees Genesis 2 gives us a description of the Garden of Eden and tells of the Tree of Life that sits within it. In Revelation 22 we have another description of God’s kingdom in which the Tree of Life is again mentioned, this time at the centre …
I often get asked questions about creation, usually the question is, do I think the universe was created in seven days? My usual response is to ask them the question, does it matters? I don’t ask this to be flippant but to get away from what I find is a superficial, surface question to some of the much more important and profound questions. …
Genesis 2:18-22 In the opening words of the bible we are used to hearing God proclaim that each entity that has been created is good. As you read on, though, you come to something strange in chapter 2, God declares it is not good. What! Something wasn’t good. The issue God sees that isn’t right is that Adam is alone …
Genesis 2:1-3 Did God get tired? It’s a valid question when reading about the last day of Creation. If God needed to rest, was it because he was tired? We can probably answer with confidence that, “No, God was not tired.” So why did he do no work on the seventh day? Well, another translation for the Hebrew word Shavat, …
Genesis 1:1-5 There was evening and there was morning… You may have never considered these words but they remind us of something important. For most of us we start the day with morning and we end it with evening but these words are the other way round in Genesis. Evening then morning, darkness then light. The Jewish Sabbath has always …
At the beginning of February I sent out a challenge to some friends of mine to take a bible story/book and create a playlist for it using between 4 and 8 tracks. The idea came from one of the Alchemy Project’s experiment and I have found it a great way of looking familiar stories in different ways. I decided on creating …
