Genesis Review

We will now review some of the lessons from Genesis.  Since Genesis means beginnings, the first thing that we realize is that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  Creation is not some giant cosmic accident.  I really cannot understand how we can look at the order of the universe and believe that all the order came out of anything other than an intelligent design, brought about by Someone with enough power to carry out that design.  As Genesis tells us, this is God, then it is up to us whether we believe Him or not.  Next, after the universe, God created life on earth, after giving it iits form.  The pinnacle of creation was man and woman.  We did not evolve to the top, but we were created at the top of all life on earth.  God created a man and a woman to complete one another, and that completeness cannot be found in any other pairing of people.  God then placed the man and woman in a perfect environment, and yet they were not satisfied.  So, if we come down to the question of nature versus nurture, though nature may be worse for some than others, sin is a result of our nature, since sin is rebellion against God's will.  Adam and Eve really had only one command to follow, and they chose not to.  Sin prevented Adam and Eve from walking freely and daily with God, and sin will still do the same thing for us today.  Adam and Eve attempted to blame their sins on the each other and even on God, but they were each responsible for their own sin, just as we are today.  They fell into sin because they were beguiled by the serpent, or Satan, and we fall into sin because we are beguiled by Satan and the things of this world.  They ceased to put God first, and so do we when we sin.  Once sin entered the world, things only got worse.  The environment was no longer perfect, and mankind had to labor for a living.  Then, too soon the first murder occurred because of the jealousy of one brother about another.  Sin will never lead us to become better people.