When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 22 Enoch walked with God[a] after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:21-24 While the book of Genesis is referred to as a "Book of Beginnings", it can also be called a "Book … [Read more...] about Genesis – A Generational Legacy
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Genesis – The Heart of Murder
Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?” And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, … [Read more...] about Genesis – The Heart of Murder
Genesis – Exile as an Act of Grace
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the … [Read more...] about Genesis – Exile as an Act of Grace
Genesis – Shame and the Gift of Pain
To the woman he said,“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children.Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”And to Adam he said,“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the treeof which I commanded … [Read more...] about Genesis – Shame and the Gift of Pain
Genesis – The Aftermath of Sin
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” He … [Read more...] about Genesis – The Aftermath of Sin