GENESIS: the week of creationIntroduction• This presentation is about the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Its primary purpose will be to educate you, the audience, about hermeneutics, literal and contextual interpretations of the creation story, as well as the history, author, date, and importance of the book of Genesis. • Throughout history, people have asked the ultimate truth question 'Where did it all begin?' For most fundamentalist Christians, the belief is that the beginning of all life itself comes from the supreme power of the Almighty Lord God. This view appears in the Bible, but can it be taken quite literally? Did a God create everything? Through examination of literal and contextual meanings, truth and fiction can be separated. The Week of Creation • Genesis is the first book of the Bible and serves as an introduction to the rest of its writings and to the general history and foundations of the Jewish religion. Scientifically it presents rather irrational concepts, but it has been widely accepted in a literal sense by most Jews and Christians. In short the text says that on the first day "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" and created light, thus separating the night from the day. On the second day the sky was created and 'then God made the sky and separated the waters above from the waters below'On the third day God separated the earth from the waters'God called the dry land earth, and the waters he called seas." And he took out herbs, plants and other foliage. On the fourth day God adds the sun, moon and stars. The fifth day arrives and God then creates the fish and birds as shown in the text as: "let the waters bring forth in great numbers moving." creatures... middle of paper... your only source and this will never, and should never, be enough to satisfy human curiosity. Even through the use of hermeneutics to decipher fact from fiction, fundamentalist Christians and Jews will continue to believe in the literal sense of history. Despite this, Genesis is an important book in the Bible for Christians and Jews and, if taken contextually, can be a metaphor for the creation of the world.Bibliography•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis•http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses•http://mb-soft.com/ believe/txs/genesis.htm•http://www.religioustolerance.org/jepd_gen.htm•http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Genesis•http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp• http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c021.html•http://www.hope.edu/ bandstra/RTOT/PART1/PT1_1B1.HTM•http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Jahwist•http://scriptures.lds.org/en/biblemaps/map9.jpg