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GENESIS 1:27

ESV

If man was created in the image of GOD, then

what is man? As a being?

With regard to intelligence?

Physical capability?

And God saw every thing that he had made,

and, behold, it was very good. And the

evening and the morning were the sixth

day. Genesis 1:31 KJV

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GOD gave man “free will”, and by it man fell.

After the fall man had lived by the “sweat of his

brow” (Gen. 3:19).

But man’s wickedness never stopped, until GOD

decided a final solution.

5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in

the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his

heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry

that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him

to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, "I will blot out man

whom I have created from the face of the land, man and

animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, forI am sorry that I have made them." 8 But Noah found

favor in the eyes of the Lord. Genesis 6:5-8 ESV

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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,

in the second month, on the seventeenth

day of the month, on that day all thefountains of the great deep burst forth, and

the windows of the heavens were opened.

12 And rain fell upon the earth forty daysand forty nights. Genesis 7:11-12 ESV

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20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of

every clean animal and some of every clean bird and

offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the

Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in hisheart, "I will never again curse the ground because of

man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his

youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living

creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains,seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and

winter, day and night, shall not cease." Genesis 8:20-22

ESV

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8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth

to be a mighty man. 9 He was a mighty hunter

before the Lord. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod

a mighty hunter before the Lord." 10 The beginningof his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and

Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he

went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir,Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah;

that is the great city. Genesis 10:8-12 ESV

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During the ancient times, the people of Mesopotamia lived under the rule of theBabylonian king, Hammurabi. Hammurabi created his code of laws, which consists of 282

laws, in the year 1750 BC. The Code of Hammurabi was inscribed on stone, which suggests

that the King accepted the laws from the sun god, Shamash. The code of laws encouraged

people to accept authority of a king, who was trying to give common rules to govern the

subjects' behavior.

The Code of Hammurabi begins with a prologue, which describes the time that Hammurabifirst becomes king, as evident in this quote:

"Anu (King of Anunaki) and Bel (Lord of Heaven and Earth) called by name

me Hammurabi, the exalted prince...to bring about the rule of righteousness

in the land to destroy the wicked and the evil doers so that the strong should

not harm the weak so that I should rule over the black headed people like

Shamash and enlighten the land to further the well being of mankind."

The actual laws range from public to private matters, with humane approaches to human

problems. The laws include almost everything: marriage and family relations; negligence;

fraud; commercial contracts; duties of public officials; property and inheritance; crimes and

punishments; techniques of legal procedure; protection for women, children, and slaves;

fairness in commercial exchanges; protection of property; standard procedures for

adjudicating disputes; debt relief for victims of food and drought; and the list goes on to

explain, in detail, each and every one of these instances.

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228. If a builder build a house for some one and complete it, he shall give him

a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.

229. If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it

properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that

builder shall be put to death.

230. If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.231. If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the

owner of the house.

232. If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined,

and inasmuch as he did not

construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect thehouse from his own means.

233. If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet

completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls

solid from his own means.

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REVELATION 18:2-52And he called out with a mighty voice,

"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!

She has become a dwelling place for demons,a haunt for every unclean spirit,

a haunt for every unclean bird,

a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.

3 For all nations have drunk

the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,

and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her

luxurious living.“

4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

"Come out of her, my people,

lest you take part in her sins,

lest you share in her plagues;

5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven,

and God has remembered her iniquities. ESV

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