1. Bible Narrative Part 1 40 Days in the Word

2. Genesis 1:1 (NIV) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

3. Genesis 3:1 (NIV) Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made.

4. Genesis 3:22 (NIV) The Lord God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

5. Genesis Introduces the Reader to: Good – choosing the other  Choosing God and neighbor above self Evil – choosing self  Choosing self over God and neighbor

6. Cain & Abel Genesis 4

7. Genesis 4:6-7 (NIV) Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.

8. Genesis 4:9 (NIV) Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"

9. Genesis 4:26 (NIV) At that time men began to call on the name of the Lord.

10. Noah The Flood

11. Genesis 6:5 (NIV) The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

12. Genesis 6:6 (NIV) The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

13. Genesis 6:7 (NIV) So the Lord said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth."

14. Genesis 6:9 (NIV) Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.

15. Genesis 6:17-18 (NIV) Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark.

16. Genesis 8:21 (NIV) The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.

17. Genesis 9:11 (NIV) “I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

18. The Flood Covenant It is unconditional It is everlasting Sign = Rainbow

19. Final Thoughts A loving God is watching His creation choose evil The Hope of Creation (relationship) is failing God needs a new plan to save His creation

20. Bible Narrative Part 1 40 Days in the Word