GENESIS: Creation WeekIntroduction• This presentation focuses on the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Its primary purpose will be to inform you and the public about the hermeneutics, literal and contextual interpretations of the creation story, as well as the history, author, date and significance of the book from Genesis.• Throughout history, people have asked the ultimate question “Where did it all begin?” For the majority of fundamentalist Christians, the belief is that the beginning of all life itself comes from the supreme power of the Lord God Almighty. This view appears in the Bible, but can it be taken in a completely literal sense? Did one God create everything? Through examination of literal and contextual meanings, truth and fiction can be separated. Creation Week • Genesis is the first book of the Bible and serves as an introduction to the rest of its writings as well as the overall history and foundations of the Jewish religion. Scientifically, it presents rather irrational concepts, but has been widely accepted in a literal sense by most Jews and Christians. Briefly, the text says that on the first day “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” and created light, thus separating night from day. On the second day the sky was created and “then God created the sky and separated the waters above from the waters below.” On the third day, God separated the earth from the waters "God called the dry land, and he called the waters the seas. And brought out herbs and plants and other foliage. On the fourth day, God added the sun, the moon and stars. The fifth day arrives and God then creates the fish and the birds, as the text shows: "Let the waters produce in great numbers moving creatures ...... middle of paper ... ...there is only one source and that will never be and should never be enough to satisfy human curiosity. Even using hermeneutics to decipher fact from fiction, fundamentalist Christians and Jews will continue to believe in the literal sense of. history Despite this fact, Genesis is an important book of the Bible for Christians and Jews and, if taken in context, can be a metaphor for the creation of the world.Bibliography•http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses•http://mb-soft.com/believe/txs/genesis.htm•http://www.religioustolerance. org/jepd_gen.htm•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis•http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp• http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig- c021.html•http://www.hope.edu/bandstra/RTOT/PART1/PT1_1B1.HTM•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahwist•http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ biblemaps/map9.jpg