Genesis Theme
Beginnings
Genesis 1:1
Overview of creation: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
Genesis 1:27
Made in God’s image - “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:28
Be fruitful and multiply - “And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””
Genesis 1:31
Creation was very good
“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”
Genesis 2
Creation. Focus on the sixth day
Genesis 2:24
Purpose of marriage - “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
Genesis 3
Temptation, sin, fall, curse
Genesis 3:15
First gospel - “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.””
Genesis 6:1-4
Nephilim creation (sons of God)
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in[a] man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim[b] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them.
Genesis 6:5
Depravity of man: “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Genesis 9
Everlasting covenant
Genesis 12:1-3
God giving Abraham the Abrahamic covenant
Now the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Genesis 15:6
Righteousness by faith :
“And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.”
Genesis 22
Isaac is offered up
Genesis 50:20
Gods sovereign purpose (God meant it for good)
“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.”