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What does the book of Genesis tell us about creation?
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The book of Genesis tells us that we were created for purpose.
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Genesis gives us an overview of the creation of earth and man. It tells us where everything comes from and tells us where we come from. We understand from it the origin and genealogy of life as we know it. The relationship with God was broken and re-established.
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Genesis tells the story of creation as the whole process. It first tells the day of what God created and then goes into detail of how and what was created and it is done so in a manner that progresses to a recent point in the whole story, from the whole big picture, where human beings are at the end of the entire process.
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Genesis reveals that it is God who has intentionally formed and filled his world. In the first three days, he created realms, and in the last three days he filled them with inhabitants. The second portion of the Genesis scroll deals with that ongoing creation mandate, lived out in the people of Abraham. The children of Abraham were blessed by God to fill the earth and reconcile other nations back to their creator.
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Genesis tells us that creation was the result of intelligent design and purpose. Creation of earth and all the life upon it was not the result of a random event. God does not describe His methods in Genesis only His orderly process and the amazing result.
Genesis gives humans the assurance that their creation had a purpose, that they were wanted creatures and not just a by-product of chemical and electrical interactions.
The Genesis account of creation describes the beginning of the most important aspect of human existence, our relationship to God Almighty. Not only does Genesis give us the origin of our relationship to God, but it records the creation of all the other critical relationships in our lives.
The biblical creation account is the only creation account which explains the origin of the sexes and the resulting marriage. Genesis records the creation of families and God’s plan for the population of the earth.
Genesis is not to be read as a science text. That was not God’s intent. Genesis was written by Moses to the Jewish people. It was a part of God’s communication to His people that they were a planned for, deeply loved and wanted part of His world. Genesis connects the Jewish people through Abraham back to the original man, Adam.
This book gives God’s people both the biologically chosen and the spiritually chosen, a foundation grounded in Him.