AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. Book 1 – The storyline of the Bible: – from creation to around the year 2400 after Adam as found in Genesis Author HaroldUnkles Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 1 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. Index Introduction...................................................................................................................................................................3 Thestorylineofthe Bible: - From Creationtoaround the year2400 after Adam as foundinGenesis 10 TheCreationStory..................................................................................................................................................10 ThestartofthefirstGenerationalAgeofman............................................................................................................13 The“Fall”ofman...................................................................................................................................................17 Man’slifeoutsideoftheGardenofEden...............................................................................................................20 TheSecondGenerationalAgeofmanbeganatthestartofthisyear.........................................................................25 God’ssorrowformakingmankindandhissolution-theFlood.............................................................................26 Man’sstartingpointaftertheFlood............................................................................................................................32 TheopeningchapterofAbraham’sstory....................................................................................................................38 Abraham’sstory– Anewstartingpointforman’ssalvationasGodcallsoutapeopleforhimself......................43 Isaac’sstory-TheconfirmationoftheAbrahamicCovenant....................................................................................58 Jacob’sstory–gettingitright.................................................................................................................................68 JacobreceivesIsaac'sblessingmeantforEsau.......................................................................................................73 Joseph’s story – God’s plan to save the descendants from adversity........................................82 ThesecondtripdowntoEgypttogetgrain..........................................................................................................108 AppendixA–ThedescendantsofNoahaslistedintheBibleuptoandincludingthetenthGeneration...........126 Appendixb–ChartofthePatriarchsasfoundintheBookofGenesis................................................................127 AppendixC:-ChartsoffamilydescendantsduringIsrael’sstayinEgyptian.....................................................128 ThedescendantsofJacob’ssonsborntoJacob’swifeLeah................................................................................128 ThedescendantsofJacob’ssonsborntoJacob’swifeZilpah..............................................................................134 ThedescendantsofJacob’ssonsborntoJacob’swifeRachel.............................................................................135 ThedescendantsofJacob’ssonsborntoJacob’swifeBihah...............................................................................138 Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 2 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. Introduction The author has tabulated this storyline of the Bible from scripture references and has at all time attempted to use the best fit with respect to time in its compilation. The author has kept making new discoveries and receiving new revelations from re-reading the different portions of the Bible surrounding each event and meditating on the events portrayed. Assuch,thisisaworkinprogressandtheauthoracceptsthattheremay/willbeerrorsandomissionsinthe timing and sequencing of the events listed as presented and welcomes any reasoned input that will improve the understanding of the facts presented in the storyline of the Bible. The author has chosen to include time stamps from other sources for some of the events listed in this storyline compilation for comparison purposes only. It is accepted by the author that these comparison time stamps are not always in agreement with the dates calculated in this tabulation. However they have been included to provide a ready comparison with other “completed” studies. It should be pointed out that there are differences of opinion in the time stamps used by the various scholars and that therearedifferencesevenbetweentheirtimestampdeliberations. Where the Bible is silent as to when a particular event occurred, i.e. an event that is not linked to other events with some time attributeexceptforits placementinthe Biblicalstorysequence,theauthorhasinserteda“?”inthe column labelled “Error between dates” to indicate that the placement of the event within this documented timeline is at the discretionoftheauthor. Wherethisoccurs,theauthorhaschosenarbitraryconsistenttimesbetweenthesurroundinglistedeventstomaintaina reasonable storyline sequence for the particular events listed in this compilation and wherever possible has used other timemarkersaroundtheseeventsasacontrolforthechoosingofthearbitrarytimesbetweentheevents. Becausewearegenerallyworkinginwholeyearsinthiscompilation,anerrorofoneyearbetweentherecordedevents listedduringaparticularperiodintheBible,(i.e.thereignofaking,andthecalculatedlengthofthatparticularperiod using the generated data in the years from Adam's creation column for particular discrete events) is an acceptable difference error, from an understanding of reasonable accuracy and in fact a two year error can also be justified because of the recording methods used in the Bible’s narration. My understanding is that the length of a reign was always rounded uptoinclude the part years of the reign at the beginningand endof the reign so that the length of the reigncouldbeoverstatedbyuptotwoyears. Theauthor has enteredtheBiblicallyextractedeventsandtheir associatedtime incrementsintoaspreadsheet1andhas attempted to put these Biblical events into a defendable chronological sequence. Wherever possible the author has tried to limit the chronological data error to a nominal one year difference and this is usually one year less than what the biblical narration suggests, i.e. -1. When an error checkin the spreadsheet file went outside of reasonable bounds for a particular discrepancy error, the author has attempted to find a reasonable explanation to justify leaving the spreadsheet as it had been entered. Where no satisfactory explanation could be found the author investigated other feasible solutions to overcome the discrepancy. Often the unacceptable discrepancy was an accumulation of other errors in the data entered and a correction in the other errors usually reduced the discrepancy error to acceptable values. The storyline spreadsheet from which this book was compiled, contains many rigorous error checks to flag any possibleerrorsthatmightoccuroutsidethetightconstraintsfoundintheBible. Anytimedifferencesenteredbetween two sequential events has an immediate impact on the time differences between other related events, i.e. the age at which a person died, is immediately highlighted by the error checks if that persons birth and death was either side of anerroneouslyenteredtimedifference. ThemaindifferencesinthiscompilationoftheBibleStorylinefromothersisthattheauthorhasused:- a) the duration of 1023 years for each period segment/age of the storyline, which represents some particular characteristic that predominates that particular segment/age of the story, and b) that the birth of a particular character heralded the start of a new period segment in the storylineoftheBibleevents. The insight to use the number 1023 was gained from some lateral thinking on the part of the author and his initial realisation that the translated word “thousand” may have possibly been a corruption of the expression, “those hands” 1 MicrosoftOffice:-Excelspreadsheet. Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 3 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. where with some dexterity and training it is possible to represent 1024 numbers with the use of the ten digits on the two hands of a person. If the first number is zero then it is possible to count up to 1023 using the digits on our two hands. Today with the advent of computers binary mathematics is done transparently within the CPU and is re- interruptedanddisplayedonabase10numberingsystemforus. The additional insight that the birth of certain people within the Bible storyline can be used as the marker for a new age/segment period, was discovered by accident when the author began to put the Genesis patriarchs into a timeline tableandinitiallysawthatIsaac’s birthwas around2048yearsif one usedtheliteralnumbersrecordedintheBookof Genesis. The secondbirththat helpedtoconfirmthe use of 1023was the time difference betweenKingDavid’s birth and Isaac’s. In the analysis of both discrepancy errors, the percentage error was very small and acceptable for the respective time intervals being considered for the form that the respective time stamps were recorded in. From my research of the Bible I believe that there are four people, whose birth heralded in a new period segment/age and they were:- 1. Adam 2. Isaac, 3. KingDavid,and 4. Jesus. Furtherresearchandthecompilationofthisstorylinehavefurtherreinforcedtheauthor’spremisestatedabove. With every new understanding it is possible to challenge the premises adopted by the proponent and by showing that there is an exception, which does not comply with the premises used, then the premises must be wrong and that the understandings presented within the musings of the proponent can be ignored at our peril, particularly if he is right in otheraspectsofhisunderstanding. Dr.FloydNolenJoneswroteinhisbookTheChronologyoftheOldTestamentthefollowingtruestatement:- “The length of the stay in Egypt and the span of the oppression during that sojourn is the subject of much controversyamongscholars;yetforallthat,theBiblicalsolutionisveryforthright. It merelyrequiresthatthe researcher bring to the problem the proper frame of reference. This includes an abiding commitment to the factthatheisdealingwithmaterialwhichhasbeensupernaturallygiventoman,providentiallypreservedover thecenturiesandhenceisstillinfallible.” TowhichIaddedthefollowingcommentinthemargin:- True,butourindividualorcollectiveinterpretationoftheBibleisnotinfallibleandisthereforefallible. Hethenwentontosayinthenextparagraphofhisworkwithinthisbook:- Thus no doubt or allowance for error in the Text will be made and the resulting chronology will reflect the honouring of all scripture (in context) that bears on the area under study. Anything else is neither the worldviewofaBiblicistnortheworkofaBiblicist. Theauthorreadilyconfessestobeing“wrong”inallthatheunderstandsaboutGodandheunderstandsthathewillnot fully understand the full story surrounding God’s actions with regards to the interacting story of God and mankind until he has a chance to test his understanding in direct face to face conversation with God himself. However, the author would argue that the interpretation of the storyline as presented below in this book, closely follows the frameworkoftheBible,isnobetterorworsethananyotherattemptbyanyotherperson. AttheendofthedayitisyouthereaderwhodecideswhetherornotsomeoralloftheconclusionsthatIhavereached areeitherrightorwronganditisyouwhowilleitheracceptorrejectthoseconclusionsandunderstandings. The time is comingwhen the “Later Days” will draw to a conclusion and God will teach his understandingto all who gototheMountainoftheLordduringthenextage/segmentperiod. Thestartingpointforthestorylineinthisbookisthebeginningofcreationandtheauthoracceptsthatthelengthofthe timeperiodusedinthecreationstoryasembracedbytheHebrewword“<oy”asfoundinGenesisChapter1and2and translatedinmostBibletranslationsas“day”isindeterminateanddifficulttocomprehend. We do know however, that during the “fourth day” the Lord caused to occur the literal “day” that we experience of alternating light and darkness, caused by the earth’s rotation, together with the changing seasons occurring on a “yearly” basis. Onthat“day” he putinplace thesun,the moonandthestarstogether withthe systems neededtohold everythinginitsproperplaceforitsfunctionalpurpose. The EXPOSITORY DICTIONARY OF BIBLE WORDS: Word Studies for Key English Bible Words Based on the HebrewandGreekTexts,EditedbyStephenD.Renn,providesthefollowingintroductionforthe Hebrewword yoÑm [<oy,H3117]asfollows:- Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 4 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. This is a common term occurring nearly 2,300 times. The usage of <oy yoÑm is largely mundane, referring to “day” as a literal twenty-four-hour period or in ametaphorical sense to indicate an indefinite period of time. In Genesis chapters one and two the author believes that the use of the Hebrew word is definitively in the ametaphoricalsenseofanindefiniteperiodoftime. The definitions for “<oy” in both The Online Bible Thayer's Greek Lexicon and Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon and Biblesoft's NewExhaustive Strong's Numbers andConcordance alsopointtothis understandingandthey havedefinedtheHebrewword“<oy”asmeaning:- yowm, OT:3117 day,time,year a) aday(asopposedtonight) b) aday(24hourperiod) 1) asdefinedbyeveningandmorninginGen1 2) asadivisionoftime;aworkingday,aday'sjourney c) days,lifetime(plural) d) time,period(general) e) year f) temporalreferences 1) today 2) yesterday 3) tomorrow2 and OT:3117 yowm (yome); from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associatedterm),[oftenusedadverb]: KJV -age, + always, + chronicals,continually(-ance), daily, ([birth- ], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, 3 withina)while(that),Xwhole(+age),(full)year(-ly),+younger. To confuse the issue more in Genesis 2:2 we have the Hebrew word “<oYB” which is translated as “on the day” and theninverse3wehavetheHebrewword“<oy”whichistranslatedas“day”. InExodus20:8-11weread:- 8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labour, and do all your work; 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates; 11 for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; thereforetheLORDblessedtheSabbathdayandhallowedit.” andfindthattheHebrewwordstranslatedintheRSVas“day”arefoundinthefollowingform:- 1. <oy day yowm 2. <ym!y days yaamiyn 3. <oyw butday Wayowm 4. <oYB day bayowm 2 The Online Bible Thayer's Greek Lexicon and Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Copyright (c)1993, Woodside BibleFellowship,Ontario,Canada.LicensedfromtheInstituteforCreationResearch. 3 Biblesoft'sNewExhaustiveStrong'sNumbersandConcordancewithExpandedGreek-HebrewDictionary.Copyright(c) 1994,BiblesoftandInternationalBibleTranslators,Inc. Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 5 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. which adds to the confusion that we have. Because time has distanced us from when Genesis was written and the meaningof the vocabularyhas beenmodified byusage over the interveningtime together with the cultural translation and interpretational understanding of what was written, as well as having been transcribed through different language andtheologicalshifts,theoriginalintendedmessage has beenobscuredtothepoint wherewe cannot be confidentthat ourunderstandingofthestoryisthesameastheoriginatoroftheGenesisstory. To add further to our confusion is the “biased” commentaries, including this one, that have been written to try and throwmorelightonthesubjectmatter. Even the Bible has certain gems that do not help us with our understanding. We read in 2 Peter 3:8 – “But do not ignore this one fact,beloved,that withthe Lordone day is as athousandyears,andathousandyears as one day,” so that if we literally apply Peter’s statement above we then must consider that a “day” in God’s time system can be equivalent in time to the length of a segment period/age within man’s time frame system. Given that we have two time based reference frames to consider in Peter’s statement and that the relativity between the two time frames may notbeconsistentlyfixedwecannotbedefinitiveinourunderstandingonthissubjectmatter. The author accepts that there are differing views on this subject and that the proponents can all justify their understanding. From my understanding, the answer to this particular question as to the length of a “day” within the creation story has no bearing on my personnel response as to whether or not I deliberately chose to enter into a meaningful relationship with the creator God, His Son and the Holy Spirit. As such, the author has chosen not to define, within the context of this compilation, a definite period of time from our understanding of time today that representswhat wasintendedbythe Hebrewword“<oy“ asfoundinGenesisChapter1and2,ortoenterintoadebate onthissubject. The author accepts that we do not understand the duration of the period that is represented during the six days of creation and suggests that the answer is best left to when it is possible to personally seek clarification on this small issuefromGodhimself. Another time marker foundin scripture and usedin the compilation of this storyline is that of “generation” as defined bytheHebrewword“rodw”asfound,forexample,inGenesis15:16. The author has, from his consideration of this verse and other evidence in the Bible, accepted that a 'generation' represents a long period of time i.e. an age, and that the duration of a 'generational' Age is of the order of 1023 years. The author considers that a 'generation' is representative of a particular "generational characteristic" which may dominate over one or two sequential Generational Ages, i.e. the two Generational Ages characterised by the non covenantal relationship between God and man, the two Generational Ages characterised by the "old" covenantal relationship4 between God and man and the two Generational Ages characterised by the "new" covenant relationship between God and man and finally the “millennium” Generational Age, which is the seventh Generational Age and if thepatternisthesameasGoddemonstratedthenitwillalsobea“SabbathDay/age”formankind. The author has also adopted the understanding that, the duration of the Lord’s Sabbath day, the seventh day of the creation story, has the same time span as the duration of the Generational Age for man for the purposes of this storyline compilation, namely God’s Sabbath day lasted in the order of 1023 years in man’s understanding of time where the year is defined as the length of the period of the earth’s rotation around the sun as measured in man’s timeframe. The author alsounderstands that laterreferences totheSabbathDayinthe OldTestament set outthe requirements for man to observe a Sabbath day every seven days and that the time frame for these requirements is set out in terms of time as understood by man where a day is one revolution of the earth on its axis and the outcome relative to the sun provides a period of sunlight and a period of darkness where there is no sunlight and the duration of these two events 4 The author in referring to the Old and New Covenantal relationship periods accepts that he may be using terms that are misleadingonacloser understandingoftheBible. The “NewCovenant”theologyhasgrownoutofthe NewTestament scriptures and is dependant on the translation of the Greek words “kainee” [kainh\] and “neon” [ne/on] when read from ourtypicalEnglishtranslations. BothGreekwordsaretranslatedas“new”butthemeaningsoftheGreekwordsistotally different. The meaningofthe Greek word “Neon” is “Brand New” whereasthe meaning ofthe Greek word “kainee” is betterunderstoodtomean“tomakelikenew”or“torenew”. The Theology of the Old and New Covenantal periods is loosely based on Jeremiah 31:31-35 but when we look at Ezekiel 36:22-38 which is a parallel prophesy to Jeremiah 31-31-35 we see that there is a time base for when this prophesywillbefulfilledandthattimebaseisstillinthefuture. Becauseofthepresentunderstandingofthisterminologytheauthorhaschosento useithereeventhoughinhisopinion itmaybemisleadinginlightoftheBiblicalevidence. Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 6 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. iscalledaday. ThelengthoftimethattheLordobservedduringhis“day”ofrestorSabbathisintermsofGod’stime frameandassuchtheauthorhasattemptedtoexpressthattimeintermsoftimewithinman’stimeframe. Aframeworktohelpunderstandthestorylineofwhathashappened,andwhatisstilltocome,isgivenbelow. Item God’stimeframe Biblical CharacteristicMan’stimeframe Event/characteristic for N°. Eventfortimeframe man 1 DayOne Creation 2 DayTwo Creation 3 DayThree Creation 4 DayFour Creation 5 DayFive Creation 6 DaySix Creation 7 DaySeven Dayofrest(God’sSabbath) FirstGenerationalAge Personalrelationship 8 DayEight Flood SecondGenerationalAge Personalrelationship 9 DayNine Callingofapeople[Israel] ThirdGenerationalAge Abrahamic{Old}Covenant 10 DayTen Kings/Idolatry[Israel] FourthGenerationalAge Abrahamic{Old}Covenant 11 DayEleven Desolationiniquity[Israel] FifthGenerationalAge Laterdays(“New”Covenant) 12 DayTwelve Desolationiniquity[Israel] SixthGenerationalAge Laterdays(“New”Covenant) 13 DayThirteen Redemption/Teaching[Israel] SeventhGenerationalAge Millennium(Man’sSabbath) 14 DayFourteen(Eternity) Dayofrest[Allwhobelieve] Eternity TimewithGod This is a very condensed overview of the Bible Storyline and this book only deals with the Book of Genesis, which covers the first eight and a half items in the Table above. Some of the items above are covered quite extensively withinthebiblewhileothersaresketchyandlackthedetailstosatisfyourcuriosity. This book was initially compiled to put the Bible storyline within Genesis into some form of order to help the author to understand the sequence of the event and to help unravel the story of Genesis within his laughing/grey matter of reasoning. Anotherissuethatneedsalittleclarificationbeforewerush headlongintothestorylinebelowistodefinethetwotime stamps used. The author has used two time stamping methods to help with our understanding. The first time frame used is to date each event from Adams creation and to timestamp that particular event as year zero and then to progressively add the time differences between the sequential events recorded so as to be able to establish when each eventoccurredrelativetoAdamscreation. ThesecondtimestampusedistheCommonEra[CE]timestamp. ThisnameconventionhasreplacedtheBCandAD systems previously used. The CE reference framework is identical to the previously used AD reference framework. The Before Common Era [BCE] has now replaced the BC convention and they are also identical in their reference frames. The CE year time stamps have been calculated directly from the year dates calculated to establish the years after Adam’s creation by subtracting 4096 years from each respective calculated year time stamp. This number represents the time frame of four Generational Ages, which is 4x 1023 years = 4092 years plus the four years fromwhen Christ wasbornandtheactualstartoftheCEperiod.5 Where the CE year is negative the date stamp represents the BCE and where it is positive the number represents the CEperiod. 5 The author has adopted the convention that Christ was born in the year 4 BCE and does not want to debate the correctness of this convention and accepts that there is variance among the scholars on the actual year/time of his birth. ThisonlybecomesimportantifwewishtocalculatetheendtimedatesandwhenJesuswillreturnofthesecondtime. Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 7 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. A sample of other people who have tried to put the Bible story into a chronologically ordered timeline and their estimationsastowhenGodcreatedAdambeforeChristwasborntoMaryinBethlehemisgivenbelowalongwithmy estimation. Person’sName TheyearBCEwhenGodcreatedAdam JewishScholars 3761-4000 F.Klassen 3975 E.Faulstitch 4001 J.Usser 4004 F.Jones 4004 M.Anstey 4042 Theauthor:-HUnkles 4096 T.Lydiat 4138 L.Condomanus 4141 WHales 5411 J.Africanus 5501 Iwaspleasedafterseeingthistable,thatIhadslottedinbetweenAnsteyandLydiat’sestimationsforwhenAdamwas created before Christ’s birth. This would suggest that myconclusionis within the same ballparkas some of the other people who have been listed. Who is goingto be more right is immaterial as we are all wrong. The question that we need to be able to answer is, “Does our particular timeline study fit the facts presented in the Bible with some reasonable degree of relevance? Does the timeline help improve our understand of God’s unfolding redemptive Plan forman?” IbelievethatIcansayyestothetwoquestionsabove. Now if the author has already confused you with what appears to be a ‘difficult’ and “hard to understand” concept, then you are not alone. The author has spent a number of years to come to his understanding and he does not expect you to readily grasp the picture the author has been able to build up for himself. What the author’s study on this subjecthasdoneistoevenchallengehis‘missunderstandings’onGod’spurposesformankind. Itistheauthor’shope thathismusingsontheBiblewillhelpyouoveraperiodoftimetocometoabetterunderstandingoftheBible. Changingourunderstandingofthe‘world’environmentweliveinisveryfrighteningandtheauthorrecommendsthat you take your time toreadthis series of books sothat you will be able toslowlyevaluate what the presentedstoryline istellingusall. Thatis,thatJesusiscomingsoon,andwe,whoacknowledgeandbelievethatJesusisourSaviourandLord,areready forthateventwheneveritwillhappenandwilljoininthechorusofcelebratoryworship. MaytheLordBlessyouasyouprogressinyourlife’sjourney. Maythereadingofthisbookinthisintendedseriesbe arevelatoryblessingforyou? Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 8 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. CorrectionstothisTimelinestudy The Author accepts that the original text of the Bible is infallible but he readily acknowledges that his understanding and indeed interpretation of the original Biblical text is not infallible. As such the Author invites any well- documented correction that is based on the Original Biblical Text to be forwarded to him for consideration and possible inclusion into this Timeline Study. Where tradition can be demonstratedto shed new understandingon what hasbeenpresentedinthisdocument,thenthattowillbeconsideredforpossibleinclusionintothisTimelineStudy. As such there will be revision from time to time of this Timeline Study as the accepted corrections are included into thedocument. Correctionscanbesentto:- Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 9 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1 AstorylinestudyoftheBible:-FromCreationtoaroundtheyear2400afterAdamasfoundinGenesis. The storyline of the Bible: - From Creation to around the year 2400 after Adam as found in Genesis Event DatesCE Error Years Yearsfrom N°. BibleReferences between between Adam’screation Generated OtherSources Dates Events Eventdescription,explanationandComments C1 Gen1:1-5 6 Start:-Day17 The Creation Story In the beginningGod created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.8 And God said, "Let therebelight";andtherewas light.9 And Godsawthat the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.10 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning,oneday.11 6 A “?” has been used in this column throughout the table in this study to indicate that the Bible is silent on when the associatedeventtookplace 7 WhereThetimeframeinthiscolumnisexpressedindaysitrepresentGod’stimeframeforthestorybeingtold. 8 The earthas we knowit today wascompletelyround like a perfectsphere and wascovered with water. We know from experimentscarried outduringspace flightsthatif you melt metaland pour itoutinthe vacuumofspace thenthe weak gravitationalforcesassociated withthe massofthe moltenmetalbeforeitsolidifies,together withthe surface tension of the moltendropletacttogethertoformperfectspheres. Ifthe moltenfluidisnothomogeneousthenthedifferentmetals willseparateoutintolayerswithinthe moltendropletbeforeitsolidifieswiththedensermaterialcollectinginthecentre of the droplet while the less dense materials forms the outer skin of the molten droplet when it solidifies. The temperatures at whichthe differentsubstanceseither condense outas liquid fromthe vapour cloud or solidifyoutof the liquid volume as a solid substance also plays a part in separating the various elements and compounds as the bulk temperaturedrops. Thepropertiesofwatermeanthatitformedanoutercoveringoftheearthasitwasformed. Theabovediscussionisdependantonthepremisethatthe temperatureatthestartofthe“creation”processwasveryhot howevertheBibleissilentonthatassumption. In reality God could have used the elements in his realm and mixed them and shaped them to create the world as we knowit. 9 Itisinterestingtoconsider whatwasthe formofthelightthatGodcreatedonDayonethatshone untilGodputthe sun, moonandstarsinplaceondayfour? 10 ThequestionofhowGodseparatedthelightandthedarknessduringdayoneisinterestingtoponderinthatondayfour heputinplacewhatweknowasdays,yearsandseasons. 11 IfthedaydescribedhereisrepresentativeofadayinGod’sdimensionthenitisnotaliteraldayaswe understandaday to be but it may have a time span in our terms of many years and as such, until we are able to ask God the question of how long did it take him to complete each day of the creation, we are not going to be able to grasp or understand the actual time span of the creation story. When we will be in a position to be able to ask this question it will pale into insignificance,aswewillbeinthepresenceofGodandthequestionwillhavenofurtherinfluenceontheoutcomeofour salvation. Aworkinprogress,errorsandomissionsaccepted 10 CopyrightHaroldUnkles2006 Filename:-BookoneofGenesis-1