God commands Abraham to travel to the land of Canaan. After several tests of Abraham’s faith, including conflicts with Pharaoh & with Lot, The Lord reveals His covenant with Abraham & his offspring.
Dr. Eckman leads discussion of the Tower of Babel & the beginnings of the Lord’s Redemptive Plan, by His calling of Abraham.
Sin re-enters the world through the actions of Noah & his son Ham, but God’s plan to re-populate the Earth continues with Noah’s sons & their offspring spreading out across the world.
The floodwaters over the Earth recede, and God establishes His New Order through Noah & his family.
As humanity oversteps His boundaries & rules, God determines to destroy all life on Earth with a great flood; Noah & his family are spared from this judgment by building an Ark.
The family of Cain altered God’s ordinances for marriage & the value of human life, and God preserved worship & obedience to His laws through the line of Seth.
Continued discussion of the fall of Adam & Eve: their expulsion from the Garden, and the suffering that continues in their family.
Adam & Eve suffer the consequences: Dr. Eckman discusses how their disobedience led to a curse upon themselves, and all of creation to follow.
Dr. Eckman leads in-depth discussion of how the serpent tempted Adam & Eve, causing the beginnings of human rebellion & its consequences for all of mankind.
A continuation of Genesis 2: God’s creation of humans to populate & have dominion over His world, and the creation of the institution of marriage.
