Genesis as we all know is about-“beginning.” This first documented book of the bible delivers enormous impact of shaping peoples’ behavior, reasoning, and respect we give to God. Through the ages, the acceptance of God and peoples' faith in Him have taken its course in various forms or groups of religion, as well as diverse governmental persuasions known to man. Whether one accepts it or not, the Holy Scriptures were the very foundation of every civility found across the lands, being it the most oldest celebrated rule of social graces as a standard of both moral and ethical behavior.
His words inspired me to pose challenging questions in life about His supremacy and sovereignty, in the light of His grace in relation to life’s struggles-its irony all together. I ask myself, how come men suffer when our Creator-our God is said to be of LOVE.
As the Spirit of God is encompassing, and as the book of creation is broad, Genesis jump-starts the depiction of God’s overwhelming supremacy. Storming the readers of His astonishing power and love and gracious benevolence by forming a haven for men-even before He created men. Then, I asked myself where the accounts of creation may have come from, and who may have written it, when even heaven and earth were non-existent yet?
Abraham came to me more than anyone else to be the author of the book of creation, since in a chronological point of view, with regard to the accounts and characters of the bible, Abraham was the first to have been documented in history’s time line. There are a number of facets, which brought to my attention as to why Abraham was responsible for the order of accounts of Genesis. Genesis with its writer figuratively crafted with an explicit and vivid imagination in a spiritual magnanimity the order of creation. I have discussed these events with a friend named Jeannie Hoffman in a small borough in Pennsylvania, who, at this time of writing, is aspiring to become a nun and is presently in the novitiate of a monastery in New York. I am now as eager as when I first revealed these findings to her, which I am about to tell you. This topic is imperative to our attention, as they are bases and bearing for subsequent areas of discussions.
It is of a strong argument that there was somebody-a person-to have written the accounts of creation. Secondly, Abraham being vested upon to be the father of all nations assumes every responsibility concomitant thereof. Hence, all eventualities therein. Abraham has had a life, convenient enough to have written the book of creation and everything within his lifetime-out of his own blessed life, well educated in Chaldea-a patriarch.
Thirdly, as you read certain accounts of Abraham’s movement from Ur to Shechem, you can come across at what has been written to be the “great tree of Moreh.” http://bible.cc/genesis/12-6.htm Through my readings of the book of creation, one time, I have been awe-struck by a deep sense of reckoning between the accounts of Noah and Abraham.
There are two reasons why I open and read the Holy Scripture. First, just to read and be encouraged by the words, second, to locate chapters and verses for knowledge. You see, this time, the day when I finally linked Noah’s story and Abraham’s experience I was looking for answers about where the human race really have started. Driven by lose-end controversies to open-ended conclusions regarding our true fore-parents. Then, upon coming across with the author’s (Genesis) impression about Great Tree of Moreh http://bible.cc/genesis/12-6.htm, coupled with the strong figure of the Most Beautiful Tree in the Garden http://bible.cc/genesis/2-9.htm, and my personal opinion that certain accounts of the Scriptures are figurative-I just came into a conclusion all together, that Abraham was responsible for every single account of the Creation in Genesis. My deduction is that the Great Tree of Moreh could very well be the controversial tree of the Garden of Eden, not only because it was mentioned several times with an amplified adjective great, but also, its retaining power in the memory of a figure if it has been a redeeming object of refuge in time of distress and in essence, relating the unauthenticated accounts of creation to real time places and events about Abraham’s travel. He may have conceived stories from this great tree of Moreh and have imaginatively expounded the place, which he used as the tree in the middle of the
Garden. He may have used prior characters-Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel and Noah-and switched his personal experiences into legend-like proportions.
Theologians and bible scholars consider climate condition may have been the cause of detour by Abraham’s family to Haran. Interestingly enough, Abraham also sought refuge in Haran where Mt Ararat is, and, where Noah was surprisingly, accounted to be, after the great flood. There is a close resemblance or similarity of eventualities. And as an affluent rancher who dealt with livestock, Abraham must have gathered “a pair of each” livestock to secure a harboring area (Haran) at a time when they were moving close to the Mediterranean Sea where they encounter terrible climate change or perhaps a great storm which the place is documented to have taken place. Abraham with his graceful imagination to amplify repercussions of wickedness and highlight God’s mercy and favor through righteous living, used the character Noah. Thus, came the account of the Great Flood. And as we all know, the saved pairs of different species were to illustrate hope that God is giving for all living creatures to multiply blessedly, and the rainbow to even signify the same.
To move further on, when Abraham reached Shecem, which is just by the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, along these shores are where earliest civilization begun and have served a vital trade route for thousand of years where the term Babel or confusion could be read http://bible.cc/genesis/11-7.htm. This was where Abraham found immense diversity of people and speech. Following the train of thought of Abraham’s travel, it clearly implies how he expressed innocence http://bible.cc/genesis/11-1.htm (Genesis 11:1) about the co-existence of people around. An initial reaction of Abraham when he noticed, there exist people who speak differently than that of his own language. Hence, the writer called the place Babel or otherwise known as confusion brought about by God. Since in those primal ages, travel of information was mediocre, if anything at all, without any technological medium, where knowledge comes only, when a person sees or hears first hand.
I give credit to Abraham's works that involve complex detailed intricacies, though, tough, but The Iron Scepter would unlock them and serve them good for all the people. The intent of the book's cause is evident in the succeeding chapters, topics, and subtopics about the rest of the saints and prophets. All I know is that all of them thrived giving great distinction between God and the repercussions apart from Him.
In the account of the tower of Babel, you may ask, why then, God had made people to believe that He brought confusion to men? There is more to it than sin that befallen man, as what we were told the reason behind the confusion. My deduction to it is this: it is more about a generational molding of heart and mind-set within peoples across the earth. God just wanted people to learn and develop how to acknowledge value, appreciate, and honor, and love everything and everyone they belong to. In being able to possess these self-worth, and regard towards themselves as a member of a micro-unit of society, would then translate to greater capabilities of learning to extend these appreciations and understanding towards the macro-settings of life.
In other words, knowing to care and be able to love oneself is the beginning of knowing how to love and care for others. With this strong words in the holy scriptures (God brought about confusion) amplifies the encouragement to the sub-conscious of men, the assurance of security and happiness within what is familiar in the peripheral micro environment to the individual. In other words, God wanted men to appreciate and acknowledge what is of his own before men could appreciate others. For purposes of enlightenment and as a reminder, our God shall never confuse men. Remember that the main thrust of this book is to bring wisdom by qualifying and clarifying words and stories of the bible and Holy Scriptures of major religions to attain universal understanding.
Categorized by events and influenced by Abraham’s own experience, the accounts of the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah and his Ark and family are joined together forming a design amplifying the grace, and orderly precepts of God from the very start.
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