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    Genesis Reduced
    Genesis Reduced
    Genesis Reduced
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    Genesis Reduced

    By Paul Sheets

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    Learn the book of "Genesis" quickly. In easy to understand language. All stories left intact. Read about "Creation," "Adam & Eve," "Tower of Babel," "Noah & The Ark," and many more. Read it in less than three hours, and learn it all in the simplest way possible. Get one today and be Bible smarter, tomorrow!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Sheets
    Release dateNov 10, 2014
    ISBN9781311879417
    Genesis Reduced
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    Paul Sheets

    Paul Sheets is a writer and teacher living in Texas. He has a PhD. in Biblical Studies, a Masters in Theology, and he teaches teenagers in the Biblical Text. He has 5 wonderful children, a "paranoid" cat, and continues writing short stories and sermons on the internet.

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      Genesis Reduced - Paul Sheets

      Genesis Reduced

      Part One

      Learning Genesis Quickly

      Paul Sheets, Th.D.

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright©2014 Paul T. Sheets, Jr.

      ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED

      ISBN-13: 978-1500343644

      ISBN-10: 1500343641

      Introduction

      IN THE BEGINNING Genesis was two different books. The first was called The Story of Adam and Eve. It’s believed that this book was written around 9 or 10(BC). Someone-obviously a priestly writer-decided that the Adam and Eve story contained nothing about how everything was created, chose to write his own book.

      This second book was titled Genesis, and believed to have been written around 6(BC). The two books ran side-by-side in the Hebrew Bible. When the Greeks in Alexandria Greece decided to create a Greek version of the Old Testament, and certain New Testament gospels, they ran into a problem.

      There were two books running together in the Hebrew Bible, but because both stories were so popular, they decided to join the two together, and kept the title Genesis.

      When they joined these two books, more problems occurred, although they were minor ones. The Greeks ended up with a bible that would set in motion, the Dual Creation Theory. In Chapter one man and woman were created by God on the sixth day. But, in Chapter two we have God creating man again from a handful of dust, and later a woman from his rib. Thus, the Dual Creation Theory. Man and woman being created twice.

      Another problem arises in

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