Seamless Bible Study Week 1

My women’s bible study group are doing seven online sessions covering the book called “Seamless” by Angie Smith where she summarizes the bible, making it easier to understand it as one whole story rather than everything that it encompasses. Here’s notes from the first week!

Seamless by Angie Smith

Week One:

Day One: Introduction

• * The Purpose of this study is to simplify the bible and make it less intimidating for readers to access The Word
• * The bible wasn’t written for experts. It was written for us.

Day Two: Creation & Fall

• * “In the beginning…” Genesis 1:1 Three simple words launch us into Gods love for us.
• * God created the earth in 7 days

• * What resulted from the original act of disobedience against God (the fall) was the turning point for humanity. The first sin against God.
• * Satan asked Eve in Genesis 3:1 “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit of any of the trees in the garden?” Satans approach in the verses 2-7 is very conniving, cunning and sly.
• * God created a situation where His people could choose whether or not to live in accordance with His rules. They chose not to.
• * Sin took root into the Garden of Eden and it will grow into a monstrosity before God, in His mercy, will send His Son to us.

Day Three: Results of the Fall

• * God asked in Genesis 3:9 “Where are you?” When he is asking this question he wasn’t asking them to identify their location but rather their condition. He wanted to pull Adam and Eve out of their fear and shame so He could meet them where they are.
• * God knows exactly where you are as He knew where they were -mind, body, soul and spirit. What He wants from you is the same as He wants from them. To come to Him no matter how difficult it seems.
• * Adam blames God & Eve for the Fall because “God gave Eve to him and Eve was the one to commit the sin.”
• * Eve in turns blame the serpent. We always have a choice to believe either God or the Devil. It can’t be both.
• * Sagan will bruise the heel of God’s people, he will wound them and have a negative effect on their lives. He is the enemy of God and the Devil will always do his best to injure and mislead God’s children. But a wound to the heel is not lethal; it’s temporary.
• * After Adam & Eve is sent out of the garden we see the pattern of sin continues in their children. The first murder is committed by their son Cain against his brother Abel out of jealousy.
• * Other people existed also at this time. It is said that Adam and Even had other sons and daughters but we only hear of Cain, Abel and Seth.
• * Seth who has a son of his own named Enoch. Not to be mixed with Cain’s son also named Enoch.
• * Enoch fathered Methuselah who fathered Lamech who fathered Noah

* Read Genesis 6:5-8

• * Wickedness overcame the land and the sin of the world worsen. God knew the depths of the humans hearts and knew they were alienating themselves further from Him.
• * Understand that we aren’t God and we cannot simply put ourselves in His place. He is all knowing. He cannot go against His nature or His promises.

Day Four: The Flood

• * Noah found favor with God and told him to build a great ark because He was about the flood the earth.
• * It rained for 40 days and 40 nights (whenever the number 40 comes up in the bible it indicates a time of testing.
• * It stopped raining after 40 days but the water didn’t disparate until 150 days later.
• * The first thing that Noah did when he got off the ark was build an alter for God and offered burnt offerings.
• * One of the central themes of Scripture is the use of sacrifice as a symbol of our need for atonement.
• * God made the first animal sacrifice back in Genesis chapter 3 when He made animal skin clothing for Adam and Eve.
• * God blesses Noah for his faithfulness and tells Him to be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth. Let’s try this whole humanity thing over again.
• * God uses the symbol of a rainbow as a promise to never flood the earth again.
• * Even when we didn’t deserve it. God gave us another chance.
• * God doesn’t have to love you, but He does. You don’t have to earn it.

Day Five: Job & Babel

• * The members of the heavenly court come together and Hod gives Satan permission to test His most righteous servant, Job.
• * Satan strips Jobs life away from him.
• * I believe God is good even when we don’t always understand all the particulars of His decisions.
• * Job shows faithfulness amidst the suffering.
• * In suffering we should turn to God and find comfort in Him.
• * Noah’s three sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth and they multiplied until the world was full of people again.
• * The world spoke one language until they decided to build a great city and make a tower for themselves.
• * God took this as humans were trying to elevate themselves and no longer put Him first.
• * The Tower of Babel was a monument that stood for men’s desire to be important.
• * God scrambled their ability to understand a language and had them spread out instead of building power together.