Genesis 1:27 tells us that God created men and women. Genesis 2:7 says that “God formed man of dust from the ground”. Genesis 2:21-23 says that Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs.

Similarly, Origen (185-254) says the Genesis account of creation "enshrines certain deeper truths than the mere historical narrative . . . and contains a spiritual meaning almost throughout, using the ...

For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Genesis 1 richly repays reflection. Consider it not just a creation account, but an accounting of the community of creation, of the ...

Genesis was meant to be read as literal history, creation out of nothing in six 24-hour days. From the extensive genealogies in Genesis 5, Genesis 11, 1 Chronicles 1-8 and Luke 3:23-38, we can ...

Sin enters the picture in Chapter 2 of Genesis and disrupt God's intentions for His creation. Socioeconomic, political or racial systems that disrupt the God-intended order are sinful.

Like America, Genesis has 2 creation stories. Simchat Torah renews our ability to tell them both As Jews we learn to live with the contradictions that sometimes haunt us.

The rationale of the brief biblical creation narrative we read in Genesis may be to teach us that its goal reached -- on its ...

One of the lesser-known facts about Genesis 1-2:4a, the story of the seven days of creation, is that it was written in response to a disaster. Judah, the southern kingdom of the Israelite people ...