Genesis: A Theological Commentary (Volume 1)

ISBN-13: 9781547101634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 420 str.

Dr Charles Vogan

Opis

The book of Genesis is a foundational book for two reasons: first, it talks about all humanity. The Creation story was designed to pull us all into the story of the Bible. The one God made us all in his image, for his special purposes; there is no distinction of race or historical era in the Creation account. And the descriptions of our fall into sin, with all the attendant ills that the Fall brought upon us, are shared by all of humanity all around the globe.

Second, Genesis is the story of one man's family - an account of events stretching over 300 years - and what God did with them to deal with this very problem of sin and death under which all of mankind suffers.

Adam failed God because he turned to his own lusts, to live in sin, and therefore died under God's Judgment. Abraham, however, will be given the essential characteristic of righteousness that Adam rejected. This righteousness (the details of which are spelled out in other places in the Bible - i.e., the Law of Moses) is the Family characteristic that reconciles God to man and enables man to please God. It is key to the new life.

And finalizing the parallels between the two creations, Adam was made "in God's image," which is a way of saying that he had a special relationship with God: God was a Father, and Adam was his son in this world, privileged and enabled to carry out his Father's will on earth. Since the first son rebelled, God now turns to Abraham and makes him his Heir. Essentially Abraham and all of his descendants are now new sons of God with much more to look forward to than what was given to Adam.

Genesis lays out the foundation for the new creation by following the lives of the Patriarchs - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. By the time we finish Genesis we will know the essentials about God the Father, his Son and Heir, and the Inheritance which the Father promises to give his Son. So if you are also a child of Abraham, this is the story of your inheritance.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. (Galatians 3:29)

(Still in progress ... chapters missing as of this date)