Catechumenate Topic: Salvation History - Genesis

Catechumenate Topic: Salvation History – Genesis

Genesis 1
Genesis 2
Genesis 3

How does the book of Genesis start? In the beginning…. That is the question the book is trying to answer: Where did we come from? Where did the world come from? What happened in the beginning?

The boom of Genesis is not a scientific account of creation, evolution, or Big Bang theory. The literary style of the book is a ‘myth’. Because the literary style is ‘myth’, there is still divine truth being revealed in the book to answer our questions.

God creates the universe. In a special way he creates man in his image. Man and woman are created in his image, and are partners. There is first sin, and as a result a fall of man and of creation. God’s effort to redeem mankind begins with Adam and Eve, a married couple.

Adam and Eve.

Genesis 3

Cain and Able.
Genesis 4

The Flood
Genesis 6:5-22
Genesis 7
Genesis 8

The next effort to rid the world of sin is by saving Noah from the flood. Now God is working with a family. God makes a covenant with Noah, the rainbow, to never send the flood again.