UnderstandingtheBooksoftheBibleGenesis

WHY READ AND STUDY GENESIS? In Genesis, its first book, the Bible hits the ground running and shows us the kind of people we could see today on the news, or meet on the street, wrestling with God to find happiness, success, and love in a world gone wrong. They struggle. They suffer. They do right, and they do wrong. With God’s help, sometimes they fight their way through to a happy ending. And God builds on the struggles, the suffering, and the good and bad choices to start making a way for anyone in the world to find their way back to him. Maybe you’ve never read the book of Genesis. Or maybe you’ve tried but never got past the opening because of arguments you’ve heard about Adam and Eve and evolution. You owe it to yourself to take another look. From a perspective deeply immersed in real human life, Genesis gives us the big picture of what kind of world God wants this to be, how it became something else instead, and what God has been doing ever since, by meeting people just where they are, to make things right again. The main purpose of Genesis is to explain how one family and its descendants came to have a special role in God’s plans......