In the Beginning... Answers to Questions from Genesis - Worldwide Church of God - 1980

Worldwide Church of God

Genesis is the "book of origins." It constitutes that part of the Bible which is commonly called the introductory book of the Old Testament. The name Genesis is derived directly from the Greek translation of the Hebrew word bereshith, meaning" in the beginning." The book of Genesis starts with a brief statement about the pre-Adamic world and goes on to cover the first 2,000 years and more of man's history, from the creation of Adam and Eve to the settlement of the children of Israel in Egypt. The highlights of the first eleven chapters are a description of creation; God's instruction to the first man and woman; the account of their disobedience which cut them and their progeny off from God; man's sinful degeneration which resulted in total destruction of life save Noah and his family by a Flood; and the disbursement of the races at the tower of Babel after the Flood. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library