In this chapter God created heaven and the earth. We are to see God in this chapter as a spirit. On the first day God divided the light (good) from the dark (bad). On the second day God divided the waters and called the firmament heaven. (I do not know what the word firmament means. Can you please explain?) On the third day God made the earth with grass and trees that grew fruit on them. On the fourth day he made the stars in the heaven to point out day from night. He also created the sun and moon. On the fifth day God created the sea animals and the birds. On the sixth day God created male and female to rule over all the other animals. I don't understand the wording in the next section; "He

refers to everything as "his kind" and lets make man in OUR image." To whom does our refer to? Later he mentions that it is in his own image. On the seventh day he rested, so he could sit

God is not a living person in chapter one; he is a spirit that moves across the earth. God says something and it happens. We believe that it took only six

days for the water to dry up. God destroyed the earth because there was so much evil upon it. God must have been human because he made mistakes.

days to create earth but who is to say it didn't take longer. There were no clocks at that time and there was no one around to see what actually went on.

In this chapter a serpent in present in the garden (which God created), that I always thought it was the Devil. The serpent tricks the woman into eating the forbidden fruit (which I always thought it was an apple). In class we discussed that the fruit meant sex. I still don't understand how this is so. Man and woman now know all that is good and evil, they figure out that they are naked. God knows that they ate the fruit that he told them not to so he punishes all three of

given to him by the Lord as an offering. Then Abraham panics and offers a ram instead. The Angel of the Lord came to him a second time and offered him a blessing for what he did. The verses nineteen through twenty-four who were they talking about was it Abraham's wife?

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