Written for people who had spent four hundred years in Egypt believing Egyptian creation stories. Genesis 1 is a corrective, a naming, a Father telling His freed children where they came from.

In this letter

- Mosaic authorship of the Torah, and the scholarly debate

- Egyptian creation myths (Atum, Nun) and Babylonian Enuma Elish

- How Genesis 1 answers each of the surrounding myths

- The sun and moon as lamps, not gods

- Humans as image-bearers, not slaves

- Why Israel needed this text at the beginning of the wilderness

Scripture — Genesis 1:1-2, 16, 26-28

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