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Genesis Part 1  Chapters 1-11 In The Beginning Genesis  comes from a Hebrew word. It's pronounced ray-sheet, and it just means "beginning." The story opens with God confronting chaos and disorder to bring order and beauty in creation. Humans are formed and appointed to participate in God's divine rule of the universe.  The humans are both individual characters, but they're also representative. “Adam" is the Hebrew word for "humanity," and "eve" is the Hebrew word for "life." And God creates them in his image . In other words, humanity reflects, or is meant to reflect, the creativity, the goodness, and character of the Creator out into the world that he's made. They're supposed to reproduce and make cultures and neighborhoods and art and gardens and everything else. But he gives them a moral choice about how they're going to go about building this world. And this is what the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is al...

Greetings, We didn't get to meet around Valentine's Day, but I figured that we could reflect on the word "love", or in Hebrew, "khesed".     We learn from movies that love is strange, and it can happen at any moment, or that you need to chase love down at the airport. In A Knights Tale, Heath Ledger thinks that he needs to prove himself.  Both to become a knight and also to win the love of a lady.  Unfortunately, the lady requested that for her love, Heath should do anything for her.  Even lose at Jousting. What is God's love? How do we love God?  Do we prove it by purposely losing a baseball game?    God's love or "khesed" combines many ideas.  Like unconditional love, enduring love, and kindness toward others. Check out this video about love/khesed: The Hebrew word “ khesed ” combines the ideas of unconditional love, generosity, and enduring commitment. Read  Psalm 136 Psalms 136 Loading... Keep Reading  and notice that all of the...