Genesis: The Beginning of God’s Plan of Salvation (Focus on the Bible | FB)
Overview
Genesis provides us with a foundation for correctly understanding the world. Within Genesis, the character and the role of human beings within the world God has created is revealed. In reading Genesis, we find on every occasion, in his dealings with mankind, God steps in by his grace and demonstrates that he is in control.
Top Highlights
“2:4–4:26 (The Account [Toledot] of the Heavens and the Earth” (Page 61)
“The power of God is also demonstrated in His forming and fashioning the earth to be a good place for mankind to live” (Page 53)
“only human beings are said to be created in the image of God” (Page 55)
“There are three main views concerning the identification of the sons of God.3 The first view is that the sons of God are angelic beings who take for themselves human wives and through this union produce the mighty Nephilim.” (Pages 87–88)
“The third view argues that the sons of God represent the godly line of Seth who married women from the ungodly line of the Cainites.” (Page 89)
- Title: Genesis: The Beginning of God’s Plan of Salvation
- Author: Richard P. Belcher Jr.
- Series: Focus on the Bible Commentary
- Publisher: Christian Focus
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 286
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Genesis › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781845509637, 1845509633
- Resource ID: LLS:FOBC01GE
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-07T19:34:48Z