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In the beginning...Creation 1:1-31

In the beginning...Creation 1:1-31. In the beginning...creation. C.S. Lewis “ The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is – what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used. ”. In the beginning...creation.

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In the beginning...Creation 1:1-31

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  1. In the beginning...Creation 1:1-31

  2. In the beginning...creation C.S. Lewis “The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is – what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used.”

  3. In the beginning...creation Genesis 1 is not principally about howor whenthe world was made, but about who created and why.

  4. Read Genesis as if we are Israelites in the Wilderness

  5. In the beginning...creation Jeremiah 10:11–12 Thus you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” It is He who made the earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom; and by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.

  6. In the beginning...creation H. Conrad Hyer “Each day of creation...dismisses an additional cluster of deities....”

  7. Introduction (1:1-2) 1:1 – God created the universe out of nothing Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

  8. Introduction (1:1-2) 1:1 – God created the universe out of nothing 1:2 – Two deficiencies revealed • “formless” (tohu) • “void” (bohu) 1:3-31 – Two deficiencies remedied

  9. 6 Days to Fix 2 Deficiencies

  10. 6 Days to Fix 2 Deficiencies

  11. 6 Days to Fix 2 Deficiencies

  12. 6 Days to Fix 2 Deficiencies

  13. 6 Days to Fix 2 Deficiencies

  14. 6 Days to Fix 2 Deficiencies

  15. 6 Days to Fix 2 Deficiencies

  16. 6 Days to Fix 2 Deficiencies

  17. How do you reconcile Genesis 1 and modern science?

  18. 3 Views on “Evolution” • Naturalistic Evolution • Theistic Evolution • Confined Evolution (within “kinds”) • Broadly defined • Narrowly defined

  19. 7 Views on Genesis 1 The Earth is Young 1) Young Earth Creationism The Earth is Old 2) Day/Age 3) Days of Proclamation Age is Indeterminate 4) Gap Theory 5) Days of Revelation 6) Preparation of the Land 7) Literary Framework

  20. In the beginning...creation Bruce Waltke “...the biblical account is answering the primary questions of who the agent is and why he created. By contrast, science is asking the secondary questions of how and when the cosmos originated. Science cannot answer the former set of questions, and Genesis does not aim to answer the latter.”

  21. In the beginning...creation J.I. Packer “The message of these two chapters is this: ‘You have seen the sea? The sky? Sun, moon, and stars? You have watched the birds and the fish?...You have marveled at the wonderful complexity of human beings...? Fantastic, isn’t it? Well now, meet the one who is behind it all!’”

  22. Notes & Sermon Audio/video Grace Bible Church @briangfisher Grace Bible Texas App Next week… Genesis 2

  23. In the beginning...Creation 1:1-31

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