How It All Began: Genesis 1

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Not how but Who-Not when but why! The rest of the Bible cannot be understood without these opening chapters. God created a good world, a stage for fellowship with His highest creation, mankind. But mankind rebelled. This is not the world that God created it to be! He has committed Himself restore it: (1) Messiah will come (cf. 3:15); (2) God calls one to call all (cf. 12:1–3); (3) God’s grace is...

flock, which showed an attitude of faith and respect. But it must be remembered that the text itself is very ambiguous and brief. We must be careful of reading too much into these early accounts. ■ NKJV “and their fat” NRSV “their fat portions” TEV “the best parts of it” NJB “and some of their fat” SEPT “even some of the fattest of them” JPSOA “the choicest” NET “even the fattest of them” Apparently here and in later Judaism, the intestines and the fat connected to it were what was offered on the

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