Read the Book: Genesis
A shiver runs down my spine. I look at the fragile, thin pages before me – ordinary, plain onionskin, with words repeated on other pages, over and over, in households around the world.
People have died for these words.
I look at this first page, and I know I’m holding in my hands a transcript of the first human writing ever to exist. I’m holding in my hands a document written before the Flood, some of it perhaps even before the Fall of Man.
These are the generations.
The Toledoth.
Each section of these first few chapters is signed by the man who wrote them – these are the generations of Adam…These are the generations of Noah.
These are my generations. This is my history. It’s where I came from, along with every other human being on this earth.
Read the Book.
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Study references:
Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Record, offers a similar analysis of this view of the Genesis text and several alternatives.
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and for the kids, Ruth Beechick’s ‘Genesis, Finding Our Roots’ – which H has been studying this term, and has absolutely loved.