Description

Short inntroduction to Pentateuch:There are a number of views, at least two major ones, of the Pentateuch. The first takes the five books at their face value, and ascribes all of them to Moses. The second view that there are quite a number of documents that gradually came together during the Mosaic times down to about 400 B.C. The first view held the field without challenge until the end of the eighteenth century; and from that date, the alternative theory came gradually to the fore.

The Book of Genesis:

The Bible’s point of departure is the creation of the universe. The first sentence of the Bible reads: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Why should we believe those words? On whose authority? The easiest answer would be, we don’t know how the universe started. We have some scientific theories, but we are still in the dark when it comes to so-called ultimate questions, and may always be. Recalling someone, one can choose to believe the biblical account of creation rather than stay in the dark.