Adventures in Salvation History

Genesis

Dawn — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:48:58 +0000

>Tower of Babel: People wanted to glory themselves by building a tower. God confused their speech to create different languages, and scattered the people.

ch. 12

>Abram and Lot go to Egypt.

>Abram tells Pharaoh that Sarai is his sister, Pharaoh took her and was struck with plagues.

Ch. 13

>Abram and Lot part ways to avoid conflict between their respective groups.

Ch. 14

>Abram rescues Lot from conflict between kings.

Ch. 15

>God’s covenant to give Abram land.

Ch. 16

>Sarai gives her servant Hagar to Abram.

>Hagar speaks with the Lord.

>Ishmael is born of Hagar.

Ch. 17

>Covenant of circumcision.

>Promise of a son.

>Named Abraham and Sarah.

Ch. 18

>Visitors predict Sarah having a child.

>Abraham asks God to spare Sodom if He should find 10 innocent people.

Ch. 19

>God destroys Sodom and Gommorah, but spares Lot and his family.

>His daughters get pregnant by him, tricking him with wine, because they don’t think there are any men to marry them. Their sons: Moab and Ammon.

Ch. 20

>Abimelech, king of Gerar, was warned not to take Sarah because she was Abraham’s wife. God kept him from sinning.

Ch. 21

>Sarah bore a son, Isaac.

>Sarah asked Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away.

>Hagar and Ishmael ran out of water, God heard Ishmael’s cries, and showed Hagar a well.

>Ishmael grew up in the wilderness, and got and Egyptian wife.

>Abraham and Abimelech made a pact to be loyal, and that a well that was dug by Abraham but siezed by Abimelech would belong to Abraham.

Ch. 22

>God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrafice his son, but stopped him at the last minute.

>God promised Abraham many descendents, because he did not withhold his son from God.

Genesis ch. 6-9

Dawn — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:39:10 +0000

>Flood, because of the wickedness of man.

>Noah built an ark, went with his family and pairs of animals.

>Covenant: One Holy Family.

Genesis ch. 4-5

Dawn — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:38:06 +0000

>Cain kills Abel, but God promises that no one shall kill Cain.

>Adam and Eve conceive and bear Seth.

>Generations from Adam to Noah.

Genesis ch. 3

Dawn — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:36:43 +0000

>Original sin: Wanting to be like God. Not trusting. Doubting God’s message.

>Result of original sin: Adam & Eve were aware that they were naket, and hid from God.

>God’s response: pain, work, and suffering. Banished from Eden.

>THE PLAN–> “I will put enmity between you [the serpent] and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.” A redeemer will be an offspring of woman.

Genesis ch. 1 & 2

Dawn — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:34:12 +0000

>God created the world–>made order out of chaos.

>God created time, He willed that we should work for 6 days and rest on the 7th day.

>God gives us the bounty of the earth to meet our needs.

>God created woman for man.

Welcome!

Dawn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:39:49 +0000

You have found the blog I will be using to organize my learning about the Bible. I went to a weekend presentation by Jeff Cavins, and it inspired me to want to better understand Scripture, and God’s plan for salvation. I’m thinking I will need to read through the Bible several times, probably over and over again forever. One of Mr. Cavin’s last comments at his presentation was, “You have the rest of your life to figure this out.” My goal is simply to learn a little more each day about God’s Word.

Initially, my plan is to read through the books that keep the “plot” moving forward, and become more familiar with the stories. I’m at the end of Genesis, and I’ve been jotting down the main plot points as I read. I will post them here, and continue to post as I read.

If you have found this blog, please feel free to comment! Share what you think, ask questions, add your ideas. Join me on this adventure!

Hello world!

Dawn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:28:36 +0000

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