Bible rightly called the Book of books - not just in it lies the quintessence of wisdom, so necessary to us in our lives every day, but answers to the main questions asked by every thinking person himself: who he is, how and why he lives.
message of love
And the Bible can be called God's love letter to mankind.It most definitely can be said of the book of Genesis, the opening pages of the Bible scriptures exciting.The whole Bible is permeated by the rays of God's love - the inspiring, the searing pain.And love is always the same and unconditional.
Why first fifty chapters of Genesis are called the Holy Scriptures?The book tells about the origin of all that once existed, but by the will of God appeared.Besides the physical aspect here is present a spiritual: the Lord is going to dedicate a person not only in the mystery of its origin, but also give him a revelation about himself, about his goals and plans.
From the first lines you can see some of the creations of the story of Genesis.Book without much detail, but emphatically and clearly represents the creation of heaven and earth, day and night, plants and animals, and finally man as the crown of all creation.Then the book tells the story of the fall of man, the history of mankind is Eden, where once people could enjoy the presence of God, about how ancient people from among the Jewish people arose.
Genesis can be divided into three ideological parts: the Creation, the Fall, and Vocation.What is the main message of each of them?
Creation
very beautiful scripture tells of how, in the void, and darkness over the water abyss trembled Spirit of God to bring forth life.The Spirit of God was the first and foremost condition for the emergence of life.
Similarly, the condition for the birth of our faith (and hence, life in its true sense) - a touch of God's Spirit.
During flutter Spirit came the Word of God that caused the non-existence of all that exists.In chapter 7, verse 2 says that God made man from the "dust of the earth" - is the physical body, giving the opportunity to interact with the material world.
But it also says that the Creator breathed into man's nostrils the "breath of life" - the spiritual internal organ that allows contact with God himself.What for?In order that the person could not just accept God, but commune with Him in the spirit, because this is the purpose of our Creator.He wants us to be one with Him, able to express and represent Him on the earth, and therefore breathed into us something else, and your breath.
Two trees
Fun man, God put him in the Garden of Eden (this word is translated from Hebrew as "fun").In the midst of the garden God placed the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil as the story in chapter 9 verse 2 of Genesis.The book tells the dramatic and that the Creator gave man the first commandment, which is not connected with the moral law, and the food, because this depended on what will a man.The Lord has allowed to taste the fruit of any tree, including the tree of life, the prototype of which is the divine life.But he forbade man to eat of the tree of knowledge, warning that it will lead to death.It was understood that the die is not the body, and the spirit of man, which would entail his death in eternity.Created in God's image of a man and woman were blessed descendants repopulate the earth and have dominion over it.
Fall
Everyone knows how they took advantage of the freedom of the first people.They call cunning of Satan deceived, who has addressed the serpent, with a proud desire to know everything, like gods.This they repeated the way of Satan, originally created the best angel in God's environment.So the people challenged the Creator, cut themselves off from it.Scene expulsion from Eden, it can be interpreted on the basis of this selection.Adam and Eve sinned and have not repented - loving God called out to them, but they rejected Him again.The result was the loss of all blessings, people no longer had the right to the tree of life so that, having tasted of it, he did not bring sin into eternity.He was unable to express and represent God in the midst of creation, which is due to human responsibility for it, too, has undergone a curse of death and bustle.
God did not abandon the exiles, moreover, it is at the same moment a man has given precious promises of the Redeemer Christ (Ch. 3, verse 15).The interpretation of the book "Genesis" leads to the conclusion that people were once again promised in Christ blessing the tree of life, but now the way to him was long and difficult, it was through the flour and corruption.The suffering and death of Christ ahead for now.
Calling
man defiled spirit is not easy to provide further story.The first child of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel.Fratricide committed by Cain, led to the first culture and civilization were Cain deprived of God, full of proud aspirations to do without him.God could not count on the descendants of Cain, and gave a kind of Eve has a son named Seth (ie, the "purpose").It was his descendants had to go God's way of salvation.
There were very few of these people who knew God and because uberegshihsya of mass spiritual corruption reigned on Earth in the antediluvian days.Determined to free the land from practicing debauchery and violence of mankind, God left alive descendant of Seth - Noah and his family.Further, the book of Genesis tells the story of the sons and great-grandson of Noah, among whom God chooses Abraham, who became the ancestor of the Jewish people."With God walks" and his son, Isaac, Jacob begetteth, and the last child - Joseph.Full of drama and history of these events people completes the Chronicle under the name "Genesis."The book ends with the accession and death of Joseph in Egypt.
And then - the arduous story of survival of the people of God, his loyalty and apostasy in the other books of the Old Testament.Then - the Good News of the Savior and of Christ's disciples amazing scripture in the New Testament.Finally, the Apocalypse, which embodied all that is promised in the "Genesis".
«Unbearable Lightness of Being" - a book by Milan Kundera
postmodern novel Czech writer has no direct relationship to the content of the Bible book of Genesis.Unless he proves once again how inconsistent, confusing and tragic road blindly, which is every man, desperately dreaming of a lost paradise.The term "being" understood here in the literal sense - as something that exists.On belief of the writer, has being "unbearable lightness", because our every action, like life itself, is not susceptible to the idea of "eternal return."They are fleeting, so can not be subject to any conviction or moral verdict.
