Men's Bible Study - RLC

We discuss the remainder of Abram's time in Egypt including God's protection and restoration of Sarai's identity and the return trip to Bethel and Ai.

We continue with God's promises to Abram and Abram's journey through Canaan, the famine, and the journey to Egypt.

We finished our discussion of the story of Babel and covered the genealogy from Noah to Abram. We also started looking at Abram's 'call' from God.

We discuss the story of Babel and some of the extrabiblical traditions that help to inform some of the larger story.

We discuss the curse of Canaan, the end of Noah's life, and the table of nations.

We discuss the rainbow as a sign of the covenant God made with Noah (and covenant signs, in general). We also discuss what happened between Noah and Ham including the many interpretations and how they might connect to the 'big story'.

We examine the details of the covenant God makes with Noah (mankind), all other living creatures (except maybe fish? ;-) ), and even the earth itself. We discuss the basic requirements of all humans before God - whether believers or not.

Noah leaves the ark, Noah offers worship (sacrifices), and we are introduced to the Noahide covenant.

We examine the detailed account of the 'weakening' waters and how the overall imagery continually alludes back to the creation story of Genesis 1.

We continue with the story of Noah. We see the poetic emphasis on the rising of the waters and the death of all living things. The flood will now begin to subside.

We continue with the story of Noah. We highlight the threefold aspect of all of the repetition in the story: the command, the execution, the completion. The flood has begun.

We noted the text's emphasis on 'pairs' for reproduction, the call backs to the language of the first creation story of Gen 1 (according to their kind), recalling Noah's righteousness (he did all that the Lord commanded), the introduction to clean and unclean animals (with no explanation), and forty days of rain and the connection of 'forty' to judgment, trial, etc... throu...

We discussed how man's corruption has affected (infected?) everything, we covered some of the amazing attributes of the ark, we noted the recurring theme of the righteousness of one man saving many, and we were introduced to the idea of 'covenant' for the first time.

We discussed that strange section of scripture about the Sons of God and the daughters of man. We also started on the Noah story and the many connections to the first 5 chapters we've already covered and the overarching big story yet to come.

We cover the 'end' of Cain's genealogy (Lamech) and note the further descent of man - and his further separation from God. We also highlighted a couple important points within Adam's genealogy in our preparation for the Noah story.

We continue looking at Cain's punishment and his response to it. We also begin our walk through Cain's genealogy.

We explore the connections to the preceding stories in Genesis and we examine more of the demise of man's relationship to his fellow man.

We finish our discussion on the breakdown of relationship between Man and God (Genesis 3) and begin our discussion of the breakdown of relationship between Man and Man (Genesis 4).

We examine the curses and consequences of the garden story - and God's mercy.

We first discuss an educational 'ministry' happening right under our noses and then we examine the interaction between God, Adam, Eve, and the serpent once sin has entered the story.

Today, we focus our magnifying glass on the story of 'the forbidden fruit'.

We take some time to discuss a single traditionally male attribute and how to properly image God with it.

We continue our examination of the second creation story.

We begin our examination of the second creation story.

Our first meeting! We explore the plain meaning of the text and look deeper at other things the creation story is telling us.