The first story of creation, the Ten Commandments, and the holy covenant between God and Abram.
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The first story of creation is written by the Priest "P", in 450 B.C. "P" functions as both author and editor - arranging the order for which we read the texts. The second story of creation was written by the Yahwist "J" in 950 B.C. "J" was a scribe of the court of Solomon in Jerusalem. "P's" version of the first story of creation impresses upon the reader God's power, fertility, that the creation was …
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…years old. God tells him, "I will maintain my covenant with him as an everlasting pact, to be his God and the God of his descendants after him" (Gen 17:19). It is this pattern of promise that repeats itself throughout the Bible. It is the pattern that keeps the 'story' going. The promise, while it takes the form of a covenant, also provides foreshadowing and numerous etiologies for numerous myths that occur in our society today.
…years old. God tells him, "I will maintain my covenant with him as an everlasting pact, to be his God and the God of his descendants after him" (Gen 17:19). It is this pattern of promise that repeats itself throughout the Bible. It is the pattern that keeps the 'story' going. The promise, while it takes the form of a covenant, also provides foreshadowing and numerous etiologies for numerous myths that occur in our society today.
