Bible in Time II

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/ogame/images/2/20/11-abraham-starsjpg.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160330184952 Thursday, January 4 Genesis 12-15 In this section of Scripture, we have the beginnings of the travelog of Abram where God promises him four things -  I will make you a great nation and bless you.  Abram and Sarai are old by any standard and have not children. Where is this nation going to come from? I am going to give this land to your descendants. Where are these descendants going to come from? Look all directions and I will be giving you all of this land to you and your descendants. I will give you a son and make this happen, even when they go into bondage they will return after 400 years. Abram goes to this new land of God's promise. He goes to Egypt and tells them that his wife Sarai was his sister. Pharoah is condemned and afflicted with Abram divides the land with Lot and saves him.pledges. After all those shenanigans, God establishes a contract w

http://voqonline.com/blog/2015/05/09/noah-and-the-ark/ Wednesday, January 3 Genesis 8-11 The story of God, Noah, and the Ark has been fascinating to the people of God since the oral the tradition of transmitting the faith. The story continues... The story has it all - broken promises, the sadness of the Creator, redemption, a faithful family, a boat, building, lack of faith, animals 2x2, rain, wind, storms, waiting, wetlands, and dry land, rainbows, and promises. I am constantly reminded of the John Huston epic of the 1966 film called the Bible - the Beginning that covers the first 22 Chapters. It shaped me by the depiction of life in the ark of animals and special effects of the day. Beyond all the Sunday School stories of Noah and the Ark, we have God who is unhappy to the point of wanting to start all over. God finds a faith and remarkable old man and his family to make the land portion of the earth with animals and humans to survive and start over.

http://www.ackermarinesurvey.com/noahsark.html Genesis 4-7 We continue in the first part of Genesis with the stories from Creation to the birth of Abraham. Adam and Eve bore two sons, Cain and Abel. God blesses Able sacrifice of the best of his livestock and not Cain who was a farmer. Cain murders Abel in anger and hides the body. God knows what happens but questions Cain; Cain is punished forever to roam; no one is to touch him. What follows is a genealogy of the line of Cain followed by a genealogy of Adam. Note the comparisons. Adam descendants are long life all the way to Noah. People forget God and God decide to try again with Noah's family and the creatures of the sea. The world is flooded and all is destroyed. Noah and his family and animals stock survive in an ark. The rains were for 150 days. Sources: Biblegateway.com

NASA Genesis 1-3   Background - Sources of the Pentateuch The authorship of Genesis is not confined to one person but a series of people and communities over hundreds of years beginning with the oral tradition around campfires to being written down after the monarchy and while in the Babylonian Exile after 586 b.c. Chapter 1.1 - 11.26 tells of primeval history to the birth of Abraham. Chapter 1.1 - 2.3 is the priestly account of Creation that is cosmic in scope with merely God speaking something and something is created. The poetic stanzas of Creation deals with: Pre-creation - nothing but a void, darkness, wind, and the face of God Day 1 - light and light and darkness are separated Day 2 - God spares to bodies of water or what we understand as outer space and atmosphere Day 3 - God separated the water and the land and planted everything on the land Day 4 - God creates the stars, and Sole our Sun and the Moon Day 5 - God creates from the waters a mass of living cre

https://brandonvogt.com/how-to-easily-read-the-whole-bible/ For the next year, you are going to embark on a journey through one of the greatest pieces of literature ever created ... the Holy Bible. The Bible is Holy because I believe it is wholly divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit to storytellers, heads of families, around campfires, and other means that evolved as humans evolved in its technology of writing and preserving writings. It is edited and compiled from many documents that have always been important to a faith and believing community that through 6,000 years preserved these stories as the Word of God. As the language, scholarship, and theology of the faith community have changed as lead by God, so has the shape of this thing called the Bible. At significant points in God's history, the faith community has come together to decide what documents should be brought together as the primary sources for the story of God. The first gathering of the part of the Bible

Morning Sky - Dave Eitland This Week’s Readings Bible in Time 2: Study Read the Bible in a Year Monday, January 1 Genesis 1-3 Tuesday, January 2 Genesis 4-7 Wednesday, January 3 Genesis 8-11 Thursday, January 4 Genesis 12-15 Friday, January 5 Genesis 16-18 Saturday, January 6 Genesis 19-21 Click on Scripture reading to go to text via Biblegateway.com