- At the start of genesis, God created the world in six days and rests
on the seventh.
- God creates the first man and places him in a beautiful garden
called the garden of eden.
- The garden has a tree called the tree of life with fruits that
provide eternal life.
- God looks at all the animals for a suitable help mate for the man
but he can't find any.
- He puts the man in a deep slumber and creates a a woman from his
side to be his help-mate.
- He calls the mad Adam and the woman Eve.
- There is one tree in the garden with fruit they may not eat, the
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- The serpent temps Eve to eat from the tree.
- Adam also eats from the tree.
- Because of this, the serpent is cursed by God to crawl on its belly,
the woman must undergo pains in child-bearing, the man will rule over
the woman, the man will have to hunt for food, and the ground will
bring forth thorns.
- They are kicked out of the garden of eden.
- They have to sons named cain and able. God showed favour to Able but
not Cain.
- In his jealousy, Cain kills Able.
- Because of this, Cain is cursed to roam the earth. God puts a mark
on Cain so people know not to kill him.
- The human population grows.
- The world falls into violence and other such sin.
- God regrets creating man. He chooses on man named Noah and his
family to build an ark so he can flood the earth and kill the other
sinful men.
- Noah builds the ark and gathers two of each animals to board so they
may repopulate the earth.
- God floods the whole earth and kills everyone.
- When the water recedes, Noah sends out a dove to gather an olive
branch to show it was safe to disembark.
- God makes the rainbow a sign of this promise that he will never
flood the earth again.
- Several generations later, God Choses one man Abram and his wife
Sarai to be the forefather and foremother of a great nation that will
bless all the nations of the world.
- God commands that all men in this nation must be circumsised.