This meant that from the very creation of the world, some people were destined to rule over others. Genesis 1 will have none of this. It is not the king who is the image of God but each and every ...

By JOE MILLER JR. Jan 20, 2009 Genesis 1:1-2:4 You may have heard quite a few sermons on the creation. Read Genesis again, paying particular attention to the "ordering" of things.

Genesis 1 wants to examine the “big picture,” the creation of all that is, including man. A reader is immediately struck by its structure: there are a series of days on which particular works ...

For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Genesis 1 richly repays reflection. Consider it not just a creation account, but an accounting of the community of creation, of the ...

In that case, Genesis 1:1 reads, “In the beginning of God’s creating of the heavens and the earth.” That doesn’t imply creation out of nothing.

Genesis was meant to be read as literal history, creation out of nothing in six 24-hour days. From the extensive genealogies in Genesis 5, Genesis 11, 1 Chronicles 1-8 and Luke 3:23-38, we can ...

The point of this all-too-familiar recitation is to note that in Bereisheet/Genesis only our planet is teeming with life; our planet, alone, with all the stars of the universe centered about it.

For you, it shall be for food.’” (1:29) With the closing of the creation narrative, we learn that God is not satisfied with merely creating a good world that flourishes with life.