Synthetic Bible Studies by James Gray

• Title Page
• Pentateuch
  • Lesson 1: Genesis 1–11
    • The Word Outline
    • The First Great Fact
    • The Law of Recurrence
    • The Second Great Fact
    • The Third Great Fact
    • The Fourth Great Fact
  • Lesson 2: Genesis 12:1–28:15
  • Lesson 3: Genesis 28–50
  • Lesson 4: Exodus 1–19
  • Lesson 5: Exodus 20–40
  • Lesson 6: Leviticus
  • Lesson 7: Numbers 1–19
  • Lesson 8: Numbers 20–36
  • Lesson 9: Deuteronomy
• History
• Poetry
• Prophets
• Post Captivity Prophets
• Gospels, Acts
• Pauline Epistles
• General Epistles

Genesis 2:7, (2) the location in which he was placed, Genesis 2:8-14, (3) the moral test laid upon him, Genesis 2:15-17, and (4) the help-meet given him, Genesis 2:18-25.

Notice, that the nature of man seems to be three-fold. There was first his body made of the dust of the ground, then the breath or spirit of life put into it, and finally the combining of these two forming a third, so that “the man became a living soul.” (Compare I Thessalonians 5:23.) It is said, Genesis 1:26, that God made “man in his own image,” and morally that is explained in part by such a passage as Colossians 3:10, but constructively, if one may use such a word in this connection, it is explained by the fact that God Himself is a Trinity in unity, and has given us this reflection and proof of Himself in our own nature.

Notice, that the whole description of the location of man in Eden carries on the face of it the idea of historicity. Eden and the story associated with it can hardly be a myth when we see the Holy Spirit laboring, so to speak, to identify its whereabouts not only by the names of the rivers flowing out of it, and the countries they watered, but even the very nature of the soil of those countries.

Notice, that Adam was a highly intelligent man to be able to name every living creature brought before him, and that this fact has a bearing upon the assumption of some that man is a development from a lower animal.

The Second Great Fact

As we have thus divided the word “creation” into its lesser facts, let us do the same for the word “fall.” Can you recall the details of the chapter for which it stands?

Name the events in their order, thus:

• The temptation of the serpent, Genesis 3:1-5.
• The fall of the woman and the man, Genesis 3:6-8.
• The appearance of the Lord God, Genesis 3:9-13.
• The pronouncement of the curse, Genesis 3:14-19.
• The provision of a covering, Genesis 3:21.
• The exclusion from the garden, Genesis 3:22-24.

Notice Genesis 3:15 especially, and familiarize yourself with the language of the first promise of hope and redemption for fallen man, because that promise is historically the source of all the other promises of Christ in type and prophecy with which the Old Testament abounds.