CH 1 - reminds me of big bang
When speaks of there being a morning and an evening what part of the world then is God referring to as the sun never fully sets on the earth? Or is He talking about there being an evening and morning concurrently? If so, does this play even more into the idea that there is not the same time for God as us as humans?
pollution
If we are made in God's image and are to govern, should we then govern as He does?
vegetarianism - God gave us "every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it."
In this, God creates man and woman together. Why is the story of Adam and Eve always referred to? History?
CH 2 - interesting how man is made before plant life
Woman was made to complete man for he was not whole without companionship - so why do men sometimes use the fact that women were made from a man's rib to place them in an inferior status, when they could not find peace without a companion
CH 3 - God actually walks among man in this story
Did we have intelligent though before eating of the forbidden fruit?
CH 4 - Why is God not pleased with Cain's offering?
How are all these new generations being produced? With women inside the family?
CH 5 - Did they have a different length for a year, or do the numbers have certain meanings, or are the people metaphors for something else?
CH 6 - Lord feels pain
How was Noah the only one not to be corrupted?
Did noah know every type of animal in the world? Or did God help him know all that he should have on the ship?
CH 7 -What's the difference between a clean and unclean animal?
How did Noah feed and seperate all these animals?
If the ark was as high as the highest mountains, was it hard to breathe?
Did God instruct Noah which animals of their species had the best temperments?
CH 8 - When the Dove didn't return to the ark, did or how did the other dove find it some way?
CH 9 - It's amazes me that God speaks on the sanctity of life even in this first book of the bible, yet humanity seems to take this fact for granted at times.
It talks about Ham being the father of Canaan. Is this where the Canaanites come from?
CH 10 - Where did the slang meaning of Nimrod come from since he was one of Noah's descendants?
CH 11 - Verse 1 says there was now a common language but in chapter 10 it talks about each of the clans having their own language. Did they all just understand the same language?
When God says humans would be capable of anything if we all spoke the same language, is He speaking of bad, good, or both?
CH 12 - Why did the Lord show such favor to Abram? Does God mean all people should like Abram or else they will eb cursed?
What did Abrams wife say to having to become Pharoah's wife? Were she and Abram seperated from each other during their time in Egypt?
CH 13 - Why did Lot acquire wealth? From association with Sarai or Abram?
Is this land that God promises Abram now what Palestinians and Israelis fight over?
CH 14 - If the people of Sodom were sinning greviously against God, why did Abram have any sort of dealing with their king? Merely to recover Lot?
Is this the first example of tithing in the Bible?
CH 15 - Do the ages of the animals and the ritual of cutting and placing them in certain ways have symbolic meanings?
How did knowing his descendants would suffer affect Abram's thoughts toward his family and his faith?
CH 16 - Did Abram not pray for guidance regarding Hagar? Here again we see the same actions as in the Garden of Eden; when man and wife act in their sole interests, evil springs.
How did Hagar's knowing that her son would be a "wild donkey of a man" who would "live in hostility toward all his brothers" (12) console her?
CH 17 - What is God's reasoning in not asking anything of the women concerning this covenant with his people?
Why does God not make His covenant with Ismael? Is it because he was born out of wedlock or that Isaac's birth will be considered a great miracle?
CH 18 - Were the three men God?
We see again the motif of fear of the Lord from earlier in Genesis as Sarah lies and says she did not laugh. I wonder at the tone of God's response to this. Was it reprimanding or merely a statement of calm fact.
In the conversation with Abraham about Sodom, are we to interpret the Lord's downsizing of the righteous people needed to save the city as mercy and love for his creation? Is not one life as important as ten to God? This account makes him seem almost a reluctant car-dealer, haggling for price.
CH 19 - Why would the men of the city want to have sex with the angels? As a show of dominance? And was Lot willing to give up his daughters to show his allegiance to God or what?
Was Zoar also going to be destroyed if Lot had not chosen to flee there?
By turning Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, are we to take some knowledge away about questioning God's plans?
Did the Lot not teach his daughters about God? Why were they so eager to "preserve [their] line" (32) though their father? Was this a practice taken by people of the time or would that audience be just as shocked?
