Walk in the Bible - Genesis 5
Genesis 5 Right off, I bet your wondering why this chapter should be included , right? It just a bunch of "X begat Y", "A begat B" and so on, so what? What's important about that ? Remember on the previous post I mentioned that each generation was looking for the person who would fulfill GOD's curse to satan that an offspring of Eve would crush Satan's head . Each generation was looking for that person and would at least note the name of their son, just in case he WAS that person. We're reminded, in Verses 1 - 2 that GOD made us, and named us, therefore HE owns us, HE's in charge, not us. We're also reminded that we're made in GOD's image. Now , that word "image" is the Hebrew word "Tselem", and it doesn't mean any kind of physical image at all. The closest word we have to it would be "a shade" or an ethereal image. More...