Our reading challenge for the day is Genesis chapters 3-8. I'll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?
Genesis 3 - God protects the people he has created even though they wish to blame anybody but themselves for their disobedience which is bringing them death.
Genesis 4 - The offspring of Adam and Eve proves to be bent toward self-serving violence. Yet God's nature as the loving and forgiving one still shows forth. He puts his protection upon Cain, the one who deserves condemnation.
Genesis 5 - Notice that Seth the son of Adam dies only a few years before Noah is born. Also notice that Adam was in the image of God but the children of Adam were in the image of Adam, partakers of his sinful nature.
Genesis 6-8 God's judgment on the sin of the world is clear. Yet he remembers his promise that he will destroy sin through the offspring of the woman. By preserving Noah and his remnant family through the flood he preserves the line of the Messiah and foreshadow the washing of regeneration found in baptism as all humanity passes through the waters of death.
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