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Not only does the book of Genesis begin our Bible, but it also can serve to begin the discussion of a variety of important topics as well: the question of origins, tensions between genders and between siblings, the reality of sin, the saga of human family, and the promise of God’s covenant. In this perceptive and helpful commentary, W. Sibley Towner relates the theological issues in Genesis to...

ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth” (11:4). The purest expression of human autonomy is to try to create a destiny so grand and dazzling that not even heaven can threaten it. They tried it and their great self-made name vanished. Now, however, God unilaterally and freely offers to one humble Aramaean of Mesopotamia a name whose true greatness will be manifested in the blessing that it brings to others. This is the act of grace by which God answers the
Pages 135–136
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