Quotes About Genesis

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)

According to our chronology, [the creation of the world] fell upon the entrance of the night preceding the twenty third day of October in the year of the Julian Calendar, 710 [4004 b.c.e.].

This means that the Genesis 2 account cannot be used to argue that heterosexual union in marriage reconstitutes the original, binary, or androgynous Ê¿adam. The creation of woman does not arise from the splitting of an original binary or sexually undifferentiated being. Sexual union is never portrayed in Scripture as the recovery of a primordial unity of the two genders.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

In the beginning the Universe was created.

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In all of this portion of the book (1:1–2:25), Moses carefully avoided mention of the divine name Yahweh (the LORD) which he does not reintroduce until 3:2, even though he used it 175 times throughout Genesis. His purpose for this is almost certainly a desire to heighten for the reader the significance of the rerevelation of the divine name to the people of God, the centerpiece of chap. 3)14 and the focus of the covenantal theology that dominates the rest of the Pentateuch.

In the end is my beginning… That's a quotation I've often heard people say.

Yahweh would have preferred that man had not emerged from "nature." This is the meaning of the story told in the first chapters of Genesis.

We were made at the motel.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

What we call results are beginnings.

Surprisingly, the Bible moves from cosmic majesty in Genesis 1 to a common everyday reality in Genesis 2: a young couple falling in love. So we might wonder if marriage is out of its depth here alongside the creation of the universe. Or could it be that the Bible sees in marriage more than we typically do? For now, we will put that question on hold, as we attend first to what Genesis 2:15–25 clearly teaches about marriage.

The biblical definition of marriage [is] established in Genesis 2:24—one mortal life fully shared between one man and one woman

So Genesis 1 and 2 honor marriage as nothing less than the crowning glory of the creation of the universe. For us modern people who may see marriage as a product of human preference driving social evolution, that is a stunning claim. Moreover,

Il vuoto è l'inizio di tutte le cose.

What lasts is what you start with. – CHARLES WRIGHT from A Journal of Southern Rivers

It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.

In the beginning was simplicity.

Het was absurd, stelde Filo, om het eerste hoofdstuk van Genesis letterlijk op te vatten en te denken dat de wereld in zes dagen was geschapen. Het getal 'zes' was een symbool voor volmaaktheid.

Gud skapte mannen før kvinnen. Det er sånn som når jeg skriver. Først kladder jeg.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

A man in the crowd asks: Hey Rodney, how'd you get started? Rodney: I was 12 years old, alone in my room, and I got started!