The first colophon

“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,”

This verse gives us the first of the colophons in the book of Genesis. Archaeologists have discovered cuneiform tablets with this kind of colophon at the end to show who was the author. There are a series of these colophons in the book of Genesis but they don’t occur anywhere else in the Bible. This is because the original material for the book of Genesis came from Mesopotamia and these tablets were written according to their methods. The source material for the end of Genesis came from Joseph but he was trained in the style of the Egyptians so he didn’t use a cuneiform colophon. When Moses left Egypt, he had the original documents and collected them as an introduction to the other information that he received from the Lord.

This first document was written by the hand of the Lord, just as the tablets of the Ten Commandments were. There is no such thing as two different accounts of creation, there is God’s account, which He gave to Adam and then there is Adam’s account that begins with his introduction to the scene on the sixth day. If we are willing to see these documents as high quality historical documents then we will save ourselves a lot of confusion and even unbelief.

Isn’t it better to accept God’s account that to believe in Darwin’s attempts to prove that his race was superior to all the other races.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)