Genesis (in Greek, creation, birth, origin), is the first book of the Bible and of the Pentateuch, named in the Hebrewcanon B'reshith (in the beginning), from the term with which it commences. From the Greek translators it received the name it is now commonly known by. Genesis consists of two great but closely-connected divisions: (1) The history of the creation, the fall of man, the flood, the dispersion of the human race, (2) The history of the fathers of the Jewish race. A certain apparent difference of style and language, the occurrence of what seem gaps on the one hand, and repetitions and contradictions on the other, and the different use of the term for the divine name (Jehovah, Everlasting; and Elohim, Almighty), led very early to the question of the integrity of the book, and various critics have assumed larger or smaller interpolations. Research Genesis
The Fall of Man is a commonly received doctrine of Christianity, founded upon the historical narrative contained in the third chapter of the book of Genesis, together with the allusions to the same matter in other parts of Scripture. In Christian mythology, Adam, having eaten of the forbidden fruit, is said to have fallen; and the relation of mankind in general to this fall is stated by St Paul in the words: 'By one man's disobedience many were made sinners'. Thus, in the fall of Adam, all men are held to have fallen and to have contracted 'original sin,' alienating them from god and rendering them morally inadequate. The doctrine of the fall does not stand alone in Scripture. It is argued by some interpreters that in the original sentence pronounced on the transgressors there is contained the promise of a redemption, and that the whole scope of Scripture is directed to the development of this promise, and of the divine scheme of providence associated with it. Research Fall of Man
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