Early Genesis Questions: Chapter 1

Who or what is “God” and "the Spirit of God"? (Genesis 1.1-1.2).

Is Life separate from “God” or is Life a manifestation of “God”?

Why does the narration move from the plural reference of “God” as “Us” to the singular reference of “He”? (Genesis 1.26; 1.27).

Is the sequence of creation consistent with evolutionary theory?

Who or what was the “God” who “ended His work which He had done”?

Why is “God” referred to in the masculine (“He”)?

How does the title “LORD God” differ from the title “God”? 

What is the “deep sleep” that fell on Adam?

What does “the man and his wife” not feeling “ashamed” suggest about their moment-to-moment existence?

Who or what does “the serpent” metaphorically represent?

The narration states: “they knew that they were naked” (Genesis 3.7). What does this suggest is the first knowledge that humans acquire?

Who or what was “the LORD God” who “called to Adam and said to him, ‘Where are you'”? 

Who or what was “the LORD”?

What does the word “sin” mean?

With Cain’s birth, Eve initially said, “I have gotten a man from the LORD." When Eve’s third-born son Seth was born, she said, “God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed."  What explains Eve’s shift in reference from “LORD” to “God”?

Who or what was the “God” with whom “Enoch walked”?

What do the ages of Adam and his descendants indicate about who was alive and when?

What are the symbolic undertones of Noah’s father, Lamech, living 777 years?

What are the symbolic undertones of Noah being Adam’s great-to-the-seventh-degree grandson?

Who or what is the “God” with whom Noah established a covenant?

What was God’s “covenant” with Noah?

What is symbolically significant about Noah being “six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth”? (Genesis 7.6). 

Who or what was the “God” who “commanded” Noah? (Genesis 7.16).

Who or what was “the LORD” who “shut him in” the ark? (Genesis 7.16).

What is the relationship between Noah and all Life, “God,” and the number 7?

What is symbolic about Noah being 601 years old when “the surface of the ground was dry”?

Who or what was the “God” who “spoke to Noah”?

Who or what was “the LORD” to whom “Noah built an altar to” and that “smelled a soothing aroma”?

Who or what was the “God” who “blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth’”?

What is the “everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth”?

What do Noah’s words suggest that Ham “had done to” Noah?

What do Noah’s final words mean?

Who or what was “the LORD” before whom Nimrod “was a mighty hunter”? (Genesis 10.9).