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The Book of Genesis

The three books of Genesis, Job, and Psalms all reference creation but with different implications for modern society. Genesis provides a brief explanation of creation and how God created life and sustains it. Psalms contains a joyful song praising nature and its creator. The Book of Job depicts God demonstrating the wonders of creation to Job to help him understand that God's methods are beyond human comprehension and to acknowledge God's power. Together these references to creation in different texts establish God as the creator and source of all life while also showing humans should appreciate nature and understand that while we experience suffering, God's wisdom is greater than what we can understand.

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The Book of Genesis

The three books of Genesis, Job, and Psalms all reference creation but with different implications for modern society. Genesis provides a brief explanation of creation and how God created life and sustains it. Psalms contains a joyful song praising nature and its creator. The Book of Job depicts God demonstrating the wonders of creation to Job to help him understand that God's methods are beyond human comprehension and to acknowledge God's power. Together these references to creation in different texts establish God as the creator and source of all life while also showing humans should appreciate nature and understand that while we experience suffering, God's wisdom is greater than what we can understand.

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ACTIVITY (WEEK 3)

Make a thematic connection of the Book of Genesis, Book of Job and Book of Psalms and give their implications to the
modern society. 20 points

The text account in Genesis 1 serves as the foundation for the Creation tale, asserting God to be the Creator and
source of all life. The poet's account of the Creation in Psalm 104 is a joyful ode to nature and its Creator. However, in
the Book of Job, the Lord's display of the wonders of Creation is offered for Job to come to grips with his great suffering
by comprehending that God's methods are beyond human comprehension.

To begin with GENESIS 1: The first chapter of Genesis is the most fundamental source of the Creation account,
answering the fundamental question of how the world and all living things came to be. The story takes the shape of an
orderly, chronological depiction of each day's creation, told nearly entirely in the past tense and implying that Creation
occurred only once at the beginning of time. In contrast to the Creation texts in Psalms and Job, Genesis simply provides
a brief explanation of how life will be sustained daily and how the earth would produce nourishment for all living things
(Gen. 1:29-30). It concludes with the declaration that God completed the work He had been working (Gen. 2:2). In
addition, PSALM 104 Although the Book of Psalms contains numerous references to Creation, it is one specific hymn (Ps.
104) that has been designated the Creation psalm in both Jewish and secular literature.2 Barekhi Nafshi, as this psalm is
known from its opening words, is a joyous song of praise to nature and its Creator. It is a virtual compendium of
everything God created, including all of heaven and earth's beauty and wonders. The phrases Barekhi nafshi - Bless the
Lord, O my soul - at the opening and end of the psalm function as a form of parenthetical framing, and their use of the
first person incorporates the poet into the narrative. And lastly JOB The last four chapters of the Book of Job are devoted
to a detailed depiction of Creation. Job argues with God, pressing Him to explain, as if in court, what crimes deserved his
awful punishment. God rejects the legal arena, instead demonstrating to Job the wonders of Creation. The story
culminates in Job 38:1, when the Lord appears to Job out of the whirlwind. God demonstrates the majestic events of
Creation to Job in four Divine speeches, the longest in the Bible, and challenges him to even begin to fathom His
creation. Job is thus made aware of his true height and forced to acknowledge that it is not his place to dispute God's
righteousness or wisdom.

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