Alasdair Paine writes in his introduction, "Genesis was not given to satisfy our speculation but to bring us urgent truths about God, our world and ourselves." This book was written to bring out the beginnings recorded in Genesis - where we came from, what went wrong and the first promise of the Saviour to come.
"There is no better brief introduction to [Gen. 1-4] than this. Alasdair Paine helpfully engages with the complex questions of interpretation but never gets bogged down... The focus throughout is God's contemporary message to us through these chapters, which is presented with great clarity and powerful application."?
- Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford and Director of Proclamation Trust
"Anyone seeking a wise, accessible guide to the crucial first chapters of Genesis need look no further. I found Alasdair's sure-footed work most illuminating and enriching."?
- Julian Hardyman, Senior Pastor, Eden Baptist Church, Cambridge
First Chapters of Everything, The: How Genesis 1-4 Explains Our World is in the following collections: