Whether we acknowledge it or not, there are three big questions that all of us seek to answer in life:

1. Where did I come from?

2. Why am I here?

3. Where am I going, if anywhere, when I die?

Over the next 8 to 12 weeks we’re going to explore all of those questions, to a greater or lesser degree, by going back to the very beginning of life as we know it.

We’re going to turn to a book of the Bible, which is often neglected, both from the pulpit and in our personal devotions or Bible study, a book which the Jews designate, “In the Beginning,” and the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the OT, calls by the name with which we are familiar, “Genesis.” Rather than labouring through the 50 chapters and 1533 verses of Genesis, one verse at a time, we’re going to look at 4 key events and 4 key individuals.