GENESIS

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GENESIS

• Theological Overview

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GOD (Theology)

• God as creator
• God as holy
• God as just judge
• God chooses- Election
• God as gracious

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HUMANITY (Anthropology)

• Humanity is fallen.
• Dominion (128 219-20) becomes domination
  (92).
• Violence- but not unrestrained (94).
• Humanity as corporate.
• Humanity still able to respond to God.

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EARTH

• All nature affected by sin (92 Rom 822)
• World still continues (Gen 822 911)
• Nature still witnesses to God (913-14 Rom 120)

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Problem of the Flood

• How could God destroy so much of life?

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John Calvin

• We can be amazed, in the light of the cause for
  the punishment, that we arent engulfed in a
  deluge every day.

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Human life is not an absolutely assured fact of
reality it exists simply by Gods good favor.
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The story of Genesis 1-11 is not ultimately one
of Gods punishment, but rather of his
faithfulness to his creatures.