5. God created man in the image of God
• This means that man has a set of qualities
that reflects God’s own personality.
6. God Created Man to Rule
• Creation Mandate – think of ways to tame
the earth and to make it useful
7. What does the Creation Mandate
Mean?
• Humans need to develop culture and
civilization.
• Need to create cities where tasks are shared
to improve the quality of life
8. Adam & Eve
• They loved God, worshiped God and obeyed
God
• They sinned against God by eating from the
forbidden tree
• The entire history of human civilization has
been twisted by sin.
9. The effects of the first sin:
1. Human’s love themselves more than
anything else
2. Religion has been damaged because man is
worshiping their own gods.
3. God changed the earth so it rebelled against
their rule. “Cursed is the ground for thy
sake.” Genesis 3:17
10. God’s plan for redemption
• Human race was divided into two groups:
Seed of the serpent and seed of the woman
• Satan’s seed would harm God’s people
• God’s people is the seed of the woman
11. Adam & Eve
Cain Abel Seth
Became
Moved to Killed by Cain
Cainites Sethites unpleasing to
Nod
God
12. The great flood
• God showed favor to one family from the
Sethite line
• God held back his judgment for 120 years, but
in the end he flooded the earth
13. • When Noah landed on Mount Ararat, God
repeated the Creation Mandate
14. Noah’s Family
Noah
Shem Ham Japeth
Blessed with
Have a great
A wicked man wealth and
future
power
15. Babel
• All humans spoke the
same language at this time
• The city of Babel was
trying to build a tower that
would reach heaven
16. God’s response to Babel
God confused
the people by
making them all
speak different
languages so
they could not
communicate
17. Nations are born
• People now lived with others that spoke their
same language and created nations
• Nation-state – nation that has its own
government
• City-state—cities that have their own
government
• Table of Nations – Genesis 10. It lists the
decedents of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
18. Vocabulary Example:
Tallyn Hughes
7th History
8/16/11
1. Nomadic constantly on the move in search of game, fish and
wild plants.
2. Adobe a dried clay and straw mixture used to build
houses
3. Totem Poles carvings from large trees that depicted local
legends and important events
Editor's Notes
We know that we are religious beingsWe know that we are precious to God.Like God we have the ability to think, love, use language, know right and wrong, and enjoy relationships
Meaning of creation mandate: p.5Genesis 1:28 “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”This is called the Creation MandateThis is why God made humans
Page 7 – earth rebelling against man
Cain became the father of a group of people who were the first to live in civilization. Their civilization was not pleasing to God…their sin was not building a city. Their sin was attempting to live out the Creation Mandate without God.
The flood caused the whole earth to be under water. Caused the earth to be without form and void just like its original state.
