Genesis 1-11 [antikvár]

PREFACE Whether you're learning to use a computer, drive a car, or climb a mountain, you have to start with the basics. As gifted as he was, even Mozart had to master the musical scales; and Shakespeare had to learn the English alphabet before he could write his great plays. If s hard to believe, but the most brilliant scientist got his or her start in chemistry 101 or physics 101. During a halftime pep talk to his discouraged team, Coach Vince Lombardi held up a pigskin and said, "This is a football." Their performance had been so dismal that he had to take them back to square one. He knew what all competent people have to know: if you want to succeed, you have to know and master the basics. Basics are those fundamental truths tiiat are the foundation for the decisions we make, the values we cherish, and the goals we try to reach. If you're wondering why there's so much confusion and destruction in today's world, one reason is because people are ignoring or rejecting the basics. But thafs like going on a voyage without a compass or radar, or trying to perform brain surgery without lights. The Book of Genesis is the "book of basics" because if s the "book of beginnings" in the Bible.^ To know Genesis is to know the fundamental truths—the basics—about God, the world, yourself and other people, law, sin, salvation, marriage, faith, ^d spiritual fulfillment. Inspired by the Spirit oi God, Moses wrote Genesis and told us where we came from, why we're here, and what God expects us to do Moses also explained how the Jewish nation began, the people through whom God would reveal Himself to the world, write the Bible, and ultimately give us our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ