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