The Root of Everything

Roots

In 1977 A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.

One of the Most Watch TV Mini Series

9 Emmy awards

Caused Library's and Offices to become flooded with people who wanted to know there history wanted to know where they came from wanted to know why they were here. They wanted to know and understand they very own Roots.

And that is why we are now in the book of Genesis. We have led astray, deceived, divested and driven to disparity as a people, as a society at large. We have been taught to and pushed for at least the last 150 years to “Trust the Science” and not the Scriptures.

The Society has become Secularists .

R.C. Sproul

Man is the twentieth centy has been busily engaged in a quest for dignity. Tiis every earnest quest. The civil rights movement developed the cry, We are human being; we are creatures of dignity; we want to be treated as being of dignity,” So also have other But the existentialists tell us that out roots are in nothing ness that our future is in nothingness, and he asked, “ Think, man if your origins are in nothing and your destiny is in nothing, how can you possibly have any dignity now.

Since Supreme Court justice Hugo Black appealed to the “wall” argument in the 1940s, secularists such as the Freedom from Religion Association have used this language to treat the Christian faith—and other faiths—as a private practice that should have no influence beyond the four walls of a church building.

J. Robertson McQuilkin; Paul Copan

Secularists have no clear basis from which to judge something as good or evil.

Joshua D. Chatraw; Mark D. Allen

James Montgomery Boice - Genesis gives us our origins matter, life values, evil, Grace, the family, nations, and all these things unity us all.

They are the roots that have and will keep us grounded.

The foundation and fundamentals of our lives and society as a whole will stand or fall at our faith in and understanding of the Book of Genesis.

In the Book we find the Roots of Everything!

1. The Overview of Genesis and as it’s Foundation of our Faith.

2. The Subject of Genesis and Fundamentals of our Fate

1. The Overview of Genesis and as it’s Foundation of our Faith.

Two Sections

Primitive History 1-11 and Patriarchal History 12-50

The 10 Toledoth - Generations

Genesis 2:4 “These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

Genesis 5:1 “This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.”

Genesis 6:9 “These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.”

Genesis 10:1 “These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.”

Genesis 11:10 “These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.”

Genesis 11:27 “Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.”

Genesis 25:12 “These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.”

Genesis 25:19 “These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac,”

Genesis 36:1 “These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).”

Genesis 37:2 “These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.”

Key Themes 4 C’s - Ken Ham

1. Creation Genesis 1:1 “1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

2.Corruption Genesis 2:17 “17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.””

3.Catastrophe Genesis 7:23 “23 He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.”

4. Confusion Genesis 11:7–8 “7 Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city.”

5. Christ 6.Cross 7.Consummation

Foundational Christian Doctrines Found in Genesis

Creation, Authority, Gender, Marriage, Family, Sin, Shame, Suffering, Sacrifice, Grace, Forgiveness, Faith, God’s Sovereignty, God’s Covenants, God’s Wrath, God’s Purpose, God’sPeople, God’s Election, God’s Provisions-

But is all starts with God-

2. The Subject of Genesis and Fundamentals of our Fate

בראשית ברא אלוהים

Genesis 1:1 “1 In the beginning God…”

This is the most important words in human history

God is the Subject of Genesis-

God is assumed

God is eternal - No Beginning

God is self-existent

Every cause must have and effect.

Philosophy and Science is so often at odds with the existence of God because they want to hold fast to the idea of cause and effect. If they cant explain God he must not be.

Polytheism- Many gods

Pantheism - a doctrine which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God. We should see the univers as GOD

Panentheism -Panentheism is, in brief, the doctrine that there is a divine element in all things. Or in other words, everything is in some way a part of God, and consequently, something divine can be found in everything.

All is whithn GOd - The material world is only aportion of his being.

Secular Materialism As a philosophy, secularism is closely associated with naturalism and materialism, rejecting consideration of immaterial or supernatural substances, such as a soul, in favour of a material universe.

Acts 17:24 “24 The God who made the world and everything in it—he is Lord of heaven and earth—does not live in shrines made by hands.”

Elohim is a grammatically plural noun אלוהים Elohim

John 1:1 “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Colossians 1:16 “16 For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities— all things have been created through him and for him.”

Romans 1:20 “20 For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse.”

In Orderd to Find the mening of Life we have to go back to the Begning

We cannot stat in the Beggning I

It is in the Beign go GOd. God is the ROot of Everyt thing

The foundation and fundamentals of our lives and society as a whole will stand or fall at our faith in and understanding of the Book of Genesis.