GENESIS 1 & 2 THE CREATION

GENESIS  1  THE CREATION

1.  What does ‘Genesis’ mean?

     Ans:  “Beginnings” / “Origins”.

 2.  How many chapters are there in the book of Genesis?

       Ans:   50 chapters.

3.  Who is the creator of the heavens and earth?

      Ans:  God created the heavens and earth (Gen. 1:1).

4    What part Jesus had in the creation?

       Ans:  “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:3) “…..God who created all things through Jesus Christ (Eph. 3:9)

5.   What God created on each of the six days of creation (in order) and 7^th day?

      Ans:  Day 1:  The heavens, the earth, light and darkness (Gen. 1:4-5)  Day 2:   Heavens,   - Gen. 1:6-8)   Day 3:   Dry land, the seas, and vegetation - (Gen. 1: 9-13) Day 4:   The sun, the moon and the stars – (Gen. 1: 14-19) Day 5:Living creatures in the water, birds in the air (Gen1: 20-23) Day 6:    Land animals and man – (Gen. 1:24-31)             Day 7:    God "rested" – (Gen. 2:2).

6.    Who are the parties of Edenic covenant? When it was made?                    (Gen.1:26  - 3:24).

       Ans:  God made this covenant with Adam and Eve. It was made before the fall and it was conditional upon obedience to God (Gen. 2:17).

7.    What did God give to man for food (in the first chapter of                             Genesis)?

        Ans:  " And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food (Gen. 1:29).

8.     From what / where, God formed the body (outer part) of man?

      Ans: The Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and …” (Gen.2: 7).

9.    How man is different from all other creations?

       Ans:  God himself created man   in His own image and shape (Gen. 1:27). God  “breathed” His own “breath” into the man’s nostrils of Adam, "the breath of  life,"   is the vital force that makes a body live. The crown creation of God, the  man has an inner, invisible, immaterial, and immortal spirit and this distinguished him from all other creatures upon the earth (Gen. 2:7).

10.  Give the reference that states man is created in God’s image?

  Ans:  Gen. 1:26, 27.

11.  What responsibility God gave to man in Eden?

       Ans:  “To tend and keep it” (Gen. 1:28; 2:15).

12.  “The Lord commanded the man….. You shall not eat of the tree”.              Of which  tree was Adam not to eat? (2:16-17).

         Ans:  Do not eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

13.  How did God create Eve? (Gen. 2:22-23)

        Ans:  Out of Adam’s ribs (by removing one of the ribs of man from his side).

14.  How did God clothe the man and woman?

       Ans:  Originally (before committing sin), they were covered God’s Glory. However sin separated them from their Creator God. Then the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them” (Gen.3: 21).

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15.  Mention the first God-ordained institution in the world?(Gen.18-25)

       Ans:  Family .

16.  Did Adam and Eve die when they disobeyed God? (Gen. 2:15-17).

        Ans:  Yes, When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the forbidden tree,                               immediately they died ‘spiritually’ i.e.  Instant spiritual death took place, and  started the decay of the body and physical death too followed (Gen. 3: 19). i.e. Adam died spiritually in the Garden, and physically died at the age of 930 years.

17.  The account of man’s first sin mentioned what two trees?

       Ans:   i. The Tree of the knowledge of good and evil; ii the tree of life                                         (Gen. 2:9; 17; 3:24).

18.  From which tree were Adam and Eve not to eat?

         Ans: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:16, 17).

19.  Where the “Tree of Life” is again mentioned in the Bible?”

         Ans:  In the Book of Revelation.  “…. On each side of the river stood the tree  of life…”  (Rev. 22:2), they may have the right to the tree of life and may go  through the gates into the city…… (Rev. 2:7; 22:14). 

20.  What name was given to the female and why?

         Ans:  Eve “…. Woman, because she was taken out of man” (Gen. 2:23).

21.   At what age Adam and Eve died (physically)?

         Ans:  Adam   930 years (Gen. 5:5), Eve...not known.

22.  What is the importance of the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis?

            Ans: These chapters provide accounts of the creation (or ordering) of the                  world and the history of God's early relationship with humanity.

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