Literal Lenses: Book 3

Literal Lenses: Book 3

Book 3 delves into the first nine chapters of Genesis.
(There is no timetable for its completion or its publication.)

Everything in Genesis 1 and 2 is God’s pre-sin created reality.
This is important. Nothing in Genesis 1 and 2 exists because of the fall, or because of sin and corruption.
The Preface to Book 3 lists six major acts of God found in Genesis 1 and 2 … there are more.

Ideas / Chapters in Book 3 are:

1. Genesis 1: Creation Process & Results
   • Creation Origins
   • Creation Process
   • Immutable Kinds
2. Genesis 1-2: God created humans and the human race in His Own image:
• With the ability to choose freely from options
• For relationship: with Himself and with a spouse in Marriage
• For exercising authority: to have dominion over all the earth
3. Genesis 3: Adam and his choice
• Adam’s one Moral Choice
• Consequences of Making the Wrong Choice
• Justifying wrong teaching by blaming Adam
4. Gospel Consequenses of Adam’s choice
• Getting the gospel wrong by seeing “extra” consequences to Adam’s sin
5. Genesis 4-5: The post-sin / pre-flood society and culture - 1500 years downhill
6. Genesis 6-8: Biblical Descriptions of the Causes and Effects of the global flood
7. Genesis 6-8: Scientific Descriptions and Evidences of the global flood
8. Genesis 9: God establishes human government to enforce respect for human life