"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"...and then man screwed it all up just by disobeying God.
This is the beginning of God's story, of how He created the heavens and the earth, of how He created man to be the pinnacle of His creation, of how things got messed up, and how God is preparing the way to correct all man's mistakes. And man made lots of mistakes along the way: violence, sexual immorality, cruelty to other people. Yet through all of this God used the most unlikely people to bring about His ultimate plan, which at the ending of this book would be the creation of people of Israel...but that's just the beginning, as we go through the lives of about several dozen generations of people from Adam to Joseph all in this one book.
Literature It all starts in the beginning
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"...and then man screwed it all up just by disobeying God.
This is the beginning of God's story, of how He created the heavens and the earth, of how He created man to be the pinnacle of His creation, of how things got messed up, and how God is preparing the way to correct all man's mistakes. And man made lots of mistakes along the way: violence, sexual immorality, cruelty to other people. Yet through all of this God used the most unlikely people to bring about His ultimate plan, which at the ending of this book would be the creation of people of Israel...but that's just the beginning, as we go through the lives of about several dozen generations of people from Adam to Joseph all in this one book.