Genesis as promise under pressure
From creation and fracture to promise, family conflict, and providence.
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Open this guide in the Concept AtlasCreation
God's origination of all that exists, described in Genesis 1-2 and echoed in the wisdom and prophetic traditions.
Look for: Open Creation and notice its strongest neighbors, key verses, and repeated vocabulary.
Next, move toward The Fall and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Creation in the AtlasThe Fall
The Fall is the primeval transgression in which the first humans disobey God by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and are expelled from Eden.
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Next, move toward Tower of Babel and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore The Fall in the AtlasTower of Babel
The Tower of Babel is the primeval event in Genesis 11:1-9 in which humanity’s unified attempt to build a city and tower in Shinar is answered by God’s confusing of languages and scattering…
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Next, move toward The Call of Abraham and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Tower of Babel in the AtlasThe Call of Abraham
Yahweh's summons of Abram to leave his homeland and kindred, accompanied by promises of land, descendants, divine blessing, and blessing for all families of the earth.
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Next, move toward Abrahamic Covenant and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore The Call of Abraham in the AtlasAbrahamic Covenant
God’s gracious promises to Abraham of offspring, land, and blessing to the nations, ratified by oath and fulfilled through faith and the Messiah (Genesis 12:1-3; 15; 17; 22:15-18; Galatians…
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Next, move toward Jacob and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Abrahamic Covenant in the AtlasJacob
A postexilic ancestor of Jesus in the Matthean genealogy, identified as the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary.
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Next, move toward Joseph (son of Jacob) and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Jacob in the AtlasJoseph (son of Jacob)
Joseph is the favored son of Jacob and Rachel who, according to Genesis, was sold into Egypt, rose to authority under Pharaoh, preserved Egypt and his family during famine, and became the…
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Next, move toward Providence and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Joseph (son of Jacob) in the AtlasProvidence
Providence is the biblical and theological teaching that God preserves, governs, and directs creation and history toward divine purposes while relating in variously construed ways to…
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