Genesis 1                                       12 Baskets Full

 1-Who is traditionally credited as the author of the book of Genesis? John 5:46-47 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

2-What parts of the Trinity are evident in verses 1 and 2?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________3-What do we learn from John 1:1-5, 14 about who was also present at the Creation? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4-A Latin phrase associated with the Creation is “Creatio Ex Nihilio”. What could this mean?

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5-What does God use to create all things? 

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6-What seems backwards from how we think about morning and night as the end of each day ending is described?

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7-Do you think 2 Peter 3:8 applies to the Creation story?

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8-How does God create vegetative life to reproduce?

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9-How does what God creates after the fourth day to reproduce?

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10-How do you explain the “plural” language used in verse 26 of “us” and “our”?

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11-What does it sound like was the original dietary intent of animals and humans?

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12-What is different about God’s response on the 6th day compared to the other days?

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Genesis 2                                      12 Baskets Full

 1-What is established by God on the seventh day?

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2-Where is what God established on the seventh day found in Luther’s Catechism? What does it mean to you?

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3-What has changed in chapter 2 with the name of the Creator?

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4-What is the Creator’s name that was given to Moses in Exodus 3:14? tetragrammaton

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5-What day of the creation story in Genesis 1 is the focus in Genesis 2? 

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6-What doesn’t the LORD God tell Adam to do that he tells the Israelites to do in Ex. 20:8?  Why?

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7-What doesn’t seem to happen yet to water the earth that we mostly rely on today? When do you remember this changing later in Genesis?

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8-What 2 trees are named in Genesis 2? What tree is named in Revelation 22:2?

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9-What does Gen: 2:15 establish as the first vocation given for humankind?

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10-What freedom and what command is given regarding the trees in the Garden and what will be the consequence of not following his word?

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11-What does the LORD God say in Genesis 2:18 that he doesn’t say in Genesis 1?

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12-What does the LORD God establish at the end of this chapter?

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