The Beginnings of the Human Race
Vocabulary Chapter 1
• Divine sovereignty• Creation mandate• Nation state• City state• Table of nations• Polytheism• Monotheism• Gospel
God Created the World
• Took only 6 days• Did it by speaking• It was good (Genesis 1:31)
Divine Sovereignty
• God’s complete and permanent control over this world
God created man in the image of God
• This means that man has a set of qualities that reflects God’s own personality.
God Created Man to Rule
• Creation Mandate – think of ways to tame the earth and to make it useful
What does the Creation Mandate Mean?
• Humans need to develop culture and civilization.
• Need to create cities where tasks are shared to improve the quality of life
Adam & Eve
• They loved God, worshiped God and obeyed God
• They sinned against God by eating from the forbidden tree
• The entire history of human civilization has been twisted by sin.
The effects of the first sin:
1. Human’s love themselves more than anything else
2. Religion has been damaged because man is worshiping their own gods.
3. God changed the earth so it rebelled against their rule. “Cursed is the ground for thy sake.” Genesis 3:17
God’s plan for redemption
• Human race was divided into two groups: Seed of the serpent and seed of the woman
• Satan’s seed would harm God’s people • God’s people is the seed of the woman
Adam & Eve
Cain
Moved to Nod Cainites
Abel Seth
Killed by Cain SethitesBecame
unpleasing to God
The great flood• God showed favor to one family from the
Sethite line• God held back his judgment for 120 years, but
in the end he flooded the earth
• When Noah landed on Mount Ararat, God repeated the Creation Mandate
Noah’s Family
Noah
Shem
Have a great future A wicked man
Ham Japeth
Blessed with wealth and
power
Babel
• All humans spoke the same language at this time
• The city of Babel was trying to build a tower that would reach heaven
God’s response to Babel
God confused the people by making them all speak different languages so they could not communicate
Nations are born
• People now lived with others that spoke their same language and created nations
• Nation-state – nation that has its own government
• City-state—cities that have their own government
• Table of Nations – Genesis 10. It lists the decedents of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Vocabulary Example:Tallyn Hughes
7th History8/16/11
1. Nomadic constantly on the
move in search of game, fish and
wild plants.
2. Adobe a dried clay and straw mixture
used to build houses
3. Totem Poles carvings from large trees that depicted
local legends and important
events
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