Book of Genesis

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Genesis (Greek: "birth", "origin") is the "book of beginnings" and the first book of the Bible. Genesis recounts the beginning of the universe, living things including mankind, and social/cultural formations. Genesis promises the coming Redeemer, provides explanations for modern scientific phenomena, such as quantum mechanics (creation was amid underlying chaos) and the dichotomy between light and matter (created on different days), and is a wellspring of Biblical scientific foreknowledge such as performing an operation under anesthesia-like sleep (Genesis 2:21 ). Genesis answers many questions about life and the universe.

There are many dozens of references to Genesis in the New Testament, including direct quotations by Jesus. Many books, movies and plays (e.g., East of Eden and Hamlet) draw upon Genesis and particularly its paradise. Rock groups, too, such as "Genesis" itself.

The Hebrew word for God is plural, and the creation of man was by a plural form of God (Genesis 1:26 : "And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness'"). The meaning of the plural form was not fully understood until the emergence of Christianity and the acceptance of the Holy Trinity. The Book of Genesis also contains a wonderful Theophany of the Three Divine Persons appearing to men in visible forms, that of the Three Persons in Genesis 18.

Genesis is intended to be interpreted as a plain historical narrative, which sloppy theological liberal denial pretends is merely poetry or figurative. It also shows a young earth created in six literal days, as opposed to the liberal idea of “ages” that is devoid of both biblical and scientific credibility.