Creation Era

Creation Era
The Creation Era contains 4 stories and 4 genealogical records that

together establish a unified storyline.
Genesis 1–11, records God’s revelation of Himself in creation,

including:
1. His eternality and power.

2. His design and desire for human flourishing.
3. The origin of sin and its universal impact on individuals,
marriages, families, and communities.
4. God’s promise of redemption.
The original recipients of this written record were the Israelites,

God’s chosen people, who had been liberated from slavery in
Egypt.
These stories were critical to their understanding about:
 God
 themselves
 their world
Creation
The creation story focuses on the first humans,
Adam and Eve, who are made in the image of God
and placed in the Garden of Eden.
God places two special trees among all the other
trees in the Garden:
 The tree of life
 The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
He gives a single warning regarding the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, promising death for
disobedience.
As long as Adam believes in God’s goodness and
trustworthiness, he would practice self-restraint
and obedience.
The Fall
Satan—God’s enemy—enters the Garden
disguised as a cunning serpent.
The serpent misrepresents God and deceives Eve.
She eats fruit from the forbidden tree and gives
some to Adam, and he also eats.
Immediately, their eyes are “opened” (Genesis 3:7),
and they experience fear, shame, and guilt.
Naked and ashamed, Adam and Eve hide from
God.
God confronts the couple. Adam blames Eve, and
Eve blames the serpent.
In response, GOD curses the serpent and promises
a Coming Seed (or offspring) who would destroy
Satan.
God sheds innocent blood to produce the skins to
cover Adam and Eve’s shame.
He slays an innocent animal that He had just
declared “good” (Genesis 1:24-25) in order to cover
their nakedness, foreshadowing the means He
would use to pay the penalty for sin.
The theme of (substitutionary atonement—the
shedding of the blood of the innocent on behalf of
the guilty); appears throughout Scripture
In His mercy, God prevents the couple from going
back into the Garden, eating from the tree of life,
and living eternally condemned lives without the
hope of redemption.
The Flood
The descendants of both Cain and Seth multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 6 seems to indicate that, over time, Seth’s male

descendants notice the beauty of Cain’s female descendants
and begin to intermarry with them, filling the world with
violence and corruption.
God grieves over humanity’s wickedness and promises to destroy

the earth and all its inhabitants with a flood.
Noah, however, finds favor with God.
God instructs Noah to build a large boat with enough space for a
male and female of every animal, and seven pairs of each clean
animal. Noah believes and obeys God.
All flesh on the earth—every animal and human outside the ark—
dies in the flood.
After they spend a year on the boat, Noah, his family, and all the
animals are released by the Lord.
Noah’s first action is to build an altar to the Lord on which he

offers clean animals as a burnt offering.
Genesis 8:21 Says the sacrifice pleases the Lord, who says,
“I will never again curse the ground because of the human race,
even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil
from childhood”.
Noah understands—and has now experienced firsthand—that

people are guilty sinners who deserve to die for their sins.
Yet, as will be seen throughout Scripture, God accepts the

substitutionary death of an innocent animal offered in faith.
God makes a covenant with Noah that He will never again

destroy the earth by flood.
He places a rainbow in the sky as a sign of His covenant and as a

reminder to people of His faithfulness.
The Tower of Babel

Noah’s sons and their wives began to repopulate the earth.
Their descendants, unwilling to obey God’s command to fill the
earth.
Instead, they stay in one place and build a huge tower called
Babel. In response, the Lord scatters the people over the face of
the earth and confuses their language.
The Creation Era reveals:
 God who speaks: He ascribes names, assesses goodness, gives

instructions and boundaries, confronts and judges sin, and
promises redemption.
 God who acts: He provides for His image bearers, slays

innocent animals on behalf of sinful people, opens the
floodgates of heaven in judgment, and scatters people
throughout the earth.
God reveals Himself as good and just, willing to redeem broken,

sinful humanity.

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Creation Era

The Creation Era contains 4 stories and 4 genealogical records that

Genesis 1–11, records God’s revelation of Himself in creation,

1. His eternality and power.

The original recipients of this written record were the Israelites,

Genesis 6 seems to indicate that, over time, Seth’s male

God grieves over humanity’s wickedness and promises to destroy

Noah’s first action is to build an altar to the Lord on which he

Noah understands—and has now experienced firsthand—that

Yet, as will be seen throughout Scripture, God accepts the

God makes a covenant with Noah that He will never again

He places a rainbow in the sky as a sign of His covenant and as a

The Tower of Babel

 God who speaks: He ascribes names, assesses goodness, gives

 God who acts: He provides for His image bearers, slays

God reveals Himself as good and just, willing to redeem broken,

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