The First Chapters of Everything: How Genesis Chapters 1 to 4 Explains Our World
Digital Verbum Edition
Verbum Editions are fully connected to your library and Bible study tools.
Overview
Alasdair Paine writes in his introduction, "Genesis was not given to satisfy our speculation but to bring us urgent truths about God, our world and ourselves." This book was written to bring out the beginnings recorded in Genesis - where we came from, what went wrong, and the first promise of the Saviour to come.
This is a Logos Reader Edition. Learn more.
- Explains the study in a technical, academic commentary
- Guides Christian ethics, taking these chapters as its starting point
- Attempts to show the relationship between the opening chapters of Genesis and scientific discovers
- The First Chapters of Everything
- In the Beginning - Genesis 1:1
- Meet Your Maker - Genesis 1:2-25
- The World about Us More From - Genesis 1:2-25
- Know Your Place - Genesis 1:26-30
- More on the ‘Image’ - Genesis 1:26-30 and the Rest of the Bible
- The Finished Work and the Seventh Day - Genesis 1:31–2:3
- The Secret of Flourishing - Genesis 2:4-17
- Sex in Paradise - Genesis 2:18-25
- So What Went Wrong? - Genesis 3:1-6
- Edengate - Genesis 3:7-13
- Mixed-up World - Genesis 3:14-24
- Blood on the Ground - Genesis 4:1-16
- Our Only Hope - Genesis 4:17-26
Anyone seeking a wise, accessible guide to the crucial first chapters of Genesis need look no further. I found Alasdair's sure-footed work most illuminating and enriching.
—Julian Hardyman, Senior Pastor, Eden Baptist Church, Cambridge
Deceptively clear and digestible style... He is preoccupied with 'What is God saying to us here?' and refuses to allow the elephant of secondary issues to stand between us and the Genesis text (though he provides additional notes for the curious). Here is a book I found refreshing my spirit, stimulating my mind, and nourishing my soul.
—Dale Ralph Davis, Respected Author and Old Testament Scholar
There is no better brief introduction to [Gen. 1-4] than this. Alasdair Paine helpfully engages with the complex questions of interpretation but never gets bogged down... The focus throughout is God's contemporary message to us through these chapters, which is presented with great clarity and powerful application.
—Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford and Director of Proclamation Trust
