The document summarizes the origins of humanity according to Genesis. It describes how God created the world in 6 days and created humanity in God's image. God gave humanity the Creation Mandate to rule over the earth. Adam and Eve lived in obedience to God but sinned, twisting human civilization. Their descendants either followed God or worshiped other gods. God flooded the earth to destroy the wicked but saved Noah's family. After the flood, God repeated the Creation Mandate and dispersed humanity through different languages at the Tower of Babel, forming nations and city-states.

1. The Beginnings of the Human
Race

2. Vocabulary Chapter 1
• Divine sovereignty
• Creation mandate
• Nation state
• City state
• Table of nations
• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Gospel

3. God Created the World
• Took only 6 days
• Did it by speaking
• It was good (Genesis 1:31)

4. Divine Sovereignty
• God’s complete and permanent control over
this world

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
Moved to
Nod
Cainites
Abel Seth
Killed by Cain Sethites
Became
unpleasing to
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
Have a great
future
A wicked man
Ham Japeth
Blessed with
wealth and
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