Bible in Time II

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 l...