And this song alone makes his motion possible. ii. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. Genesis Chapter 8 Bible Study: The Mystery of the 17th. Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. d. “I beg and faithfully warn every pious Christian not to stumble at the simplicity of the language and stories that will often meet him there [in Genesis]. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. The Old Testament So the evening and the morning were the second day. If everything around us, including ourselves, is the result of random, meaningless occurrences apart from the work of a creating God, then it says something about who I am, and where I, and the whole universe, are going. i. For more information on this, have a look at  Psalm 104:5-9  . These are known to be the cause of mutations, which decrease human longevity. When critics ask, ‘Is your theory really true?’ we should not be satisfied to be answered that ‘it is good science, as we define science’.” (Johnson). He is the God who can take your nothing, presented to Him, and create something. Genesis chapter 12 is all about the plans of God. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. Sorcery is universally condemned in the Bible (Exodus 22:18, Deuteronomy 18:10, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Revelation 21:8 and 22:15). But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” (John 5:46-47) We can’t say we believe in Jesus if we don’t believe in the Book of Genesis. There would be lush, tropical-like vegetation, all over the world, fed not by rain, but by a rich evaporation and condensation cycle, resulting in heavy dew or ground-fog. Prophets GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. It means to create out of nothing, showing that that God created the world out of nothing, not out of Himself. Commentary on Genesis 1:1,2 (Read Genesis 1:1,2) The first verse of the Bible gives us a satisfying and useful account of the origin of the earth and the heavens. e. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter (Proverbs 25:2). The average distance between one galaxy and another is about 20 million trillion miles. The earth was without form, and void: Some translate the idea in this verse as the earth became without form and void. iv. Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. But we will concern ourselves with a different picture presented to us in these verses. The creation account is not put in a category of historical fiction. God set them in the firmament of the heavens: God knew exactly how far to set the sun from the earth. The primary reason God created sex was to contribute to the bonding of a one-flesh relationship. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. He also regards much of the fossil evidence for human evolution as nonsense. 1. Chapter 1- Genesis Chapter 1 is the first of eleven in a series of studies of the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis. Genesis 1:1 In the Beginning, God. 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” First of all, and before any creature was, God made heaven and earth out of nothing. b. Johannine Writings Share this page using one of these tools: Email / username or password was incorrect! ii. There are at least 165 passages in Genesis either directly quoted or clearly referred to in the New Testament; many of these are quoted more than once, so there are at least 200 quotations or allusions to Genesis in the New Testament. d. It is true that Genesis was not written primarily as a scientific document. Genesis 1:26-28  Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' 1. Taking into account factors such as our galaxy type, star location, star age, star mass, star color, distance from star, axis tilt, rotation period, surface gravity, tidal force, magnetic field, oxygen quantity in atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, and 20 other important factors, the probability of all 33 occurrences happening on any one planet is one in 10 to the 42 power. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The New Testament book with the same first three words is the book of John for it starts 'In the beginning was the Word.' There’s no reason why God couldn’t have started creation in the same way He will end it. 1-5: Earth is pictured as a formless, empty, dark mass in the midst of a great ocean. This means there is an unbridgeable gap between human life and animal life. Pauline Epistles J. Edwin Orr used a memorable definition of God, which was thoroughly Biblical: God is the only infinite, eternal, and unchangable spirit, the perfect being in whom all things begin, and continue, and end. There are many good and... B. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is." At one time the U.S. government spent $100 million a year looking for extraterrestrial intelligence. When he received those radio signals, he looked for order and pattern, which demonstrated the signals were transmitted by intelligent life. The universe has a just-right average distance between the stars. Some 100 years ago, there was a great German philosopher named Arthur Schopenhauer. We will leave the creation of seeds and fruit for chapter 2 of our study, but for now I want to draw your attention to a fantastic picture of Jesus from verse 14 of Genesis 1. practical application 1. ii. Learn how and why God created our world and what He considered good and blessed. The mystery of the gospel (the cross) was foreordained before the ages: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory. Then God said: God did not have to fashion light with His hands. Finally, out of what did Jesus create this world? Minor Prophets In the beginning, God: God Himself was before the beginning: Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting (Psalm 93:2). 14 And God said, “Let there be lights. We understand he didn’t literally mean he cried so much that he flooded his room and set his bed afloat. Male and female He created them: This should not be construed to mean Adam was originally some type of androgynous being, being both male and female. This means the incarnation was truly possible. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. i. Leupold on the Spirit of God was hovering: “The verb…signifies a vibrant moving, a protective hovering…His was the preparatory work for leading over from the inorganic to the organic.”, ii. Doesn’t the fossil record show these creatures slowly evolved into existence, instead of suddenly appearing? The Old Testament So God created man in His own image: God created man according to His plan as described in Genesis 1:26. But that does not automatically give us confidence in the answer found in the Book of Genesis. While masterfully spinning ideas out of faith and equations, cosmologists were pitifully short on data. i. Einstein thought their estimate was a little generous, but he replied: “Is it possible God exists in the 95% you don’t know?”. Among the diversity of animals, many share similar structures: birds, reptiles, mammals, and so forth. 2. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a The teacher wasn’t even sure he had taught evolution, but the trial went ahead. Instead, it says it is by faith we understand God created the world. ii. The quarks joined into protons and careened wildly about in a hot, dense, glowing goop as opaque as a star. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning - the fourth day. Let there be light: The first step from chaos to order is to bring light. d. One day, students in one of Albert Einstein’s classes were saying they had decided there was no God. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds. Wisdom Literature Genesis 1:14-19 And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse … Really, no more than one one-thousandth of the New Testament text is in question. Their thinking is the earth was originally created not without form and void, but it became without form and void through the destructive work of Satan. i. Leupold does a good job showing that the plurality of let Us make cannot be merely the plurality of royalty, nor can it be God speaking with and to the angels. And though we may only reflect His image and glory poorly at the moment, the day will come, when He appears, when the image will be complete and fully restored: "Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. The word “created” (bara') in verse 1 is a verb used exclusively of God. b. Leading the defense was Clarence Darrow, a famous criminal lawyer and agnostic lecturer. i. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. The fossil record totally rejects the idea of millions of tiny changes; the quick leaps are a way of attributing miraculous power to “chance” or “nature” instead of God. Man is different from every other order of created being because He has a created consistency with God. The Bible’s clear teaching of God’s creation and the uncertainty of modern science. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. The way they look when they first appear in the fossil record is the way they look when last appearing in the fossil record. Others (including the Bible) say before there was anything created, there was a Personal Being. Based on these ideas, some have advanced what has been called the “Gap Theory.” It is the idea that there was a long and indefinite chronological gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. A woman is absolutely superior at being a woman. 3. Therefore, when someone says the universe or anything else came about by chance, one may say that despite their expertise or skill in other areas, when it comes to this subject they are ignorant, superstitious, or simply repeating a tired theory said and disproved before, yet unthinkingly accepted. This occurs on a daily basis as we behold Him who was the true image of God (again - just as the moon requires the sun to shine) as it says in  2 Cor 3:18, "And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.". “Chance” merely describes the statistical probability of something happening. (See  Acts 26:18  ). In the 1920’s, a former substitute teacher in a Tennessee school volunteered to be the defendant in a case meant to challenge a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the public schools. b. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. i. Genesis shows us the origins of the universe, order and complexity, the solar system, the atmosphere and hydrosphere, the origin of life, man, marriage, evil, language, government, culture, nations, religion. a. a. b. Amen, and Amen.” For this reason (according to the legend), the Hebrew Book of Genesis begins, “Bereshit God created the heaven and the earth.”. The closest we come to creating is in reproducing ourselves sexually. i. -------------------- (1 Corinthians 2:7), iv. ii. General Epistles Major Prophets b. Darwin admitted the state of the fossil evidence was “the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory,” and because of the fossil evidence, “all the most eminent paleontologists…and all our greatest geologists…have unanimously, often vehemently, maintained” that the species do not change. Pentateuch List the things God found “good” among His creations from Genesis Chapter 1. 2. Leupold quoting Luther on Elohim: “But we have clear testimony that Moses aimed to indicate the Trinity or the three persons in the one divine nature.”. Eternal life was promised before time began: in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began. He knows what is good and organizes His creation to result in something good. “The Darwinists met this fantastic suggestion with savage ridicule. Here is what he says: 'For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. With a word God declares that there shall be light... and there was. Everything else in our life flows from the answer to this question. Though there are poetic elements to the account, we believe it was still written to record a historical reality. Hemlock is natural, but not good. We can know this about the New Testament by knowing that because of earlier manuscripts, and a greater number of ancient manuscripts, the New Testament is by far the most reliable and exhaustively crosschecked ancient document we possess. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. iv. Firstly, Genesis means 'beginning' and as such it outlines the beginning of many things. And it was so. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you: And, even as Adam received instructions for eating (Genesis 1:29-30, 2:15-17), so does Noah. Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. By habit, he usually dressed like a vagrant, and one day he sat on a park bench in Berlin, deep in thought. Because this record is so complete, paleontologists assumed a positive trail of evolution could be found. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.'. 5. When God pronounced the creation good, He really meant it. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point c. In 1913, an astronomer in Arizona discovered that stars appeared to be moving away from the earth at tremendous speeds, up to two million miles an hour. For example, when David wrote in Psalm 6:6 “All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears,” he used a poetic literary form. Why is evolution so universally believed today? b. i. iv. The New Testament God: This is the ancient Hebrew word Elohim. a. -------------------- Why? The Bible says plainly death came by Adam (Romans 5:12), and since fossils are the result of death, they could not have happened before Adam’s time. (Psalm 19:1-4), ii. Michael S. Turner, an astrophysics professor at the University of Chicago, said: “It’s very humbling. In the beginning, God: God was in three Persons before the beginning, and the Persons shared a relationship of love and fellowship: “Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was … for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17:5, 17:24). Do you have fellowship with God? (Gen 1:3-5) The first day of creation: light is created and divided from the darkness. (Psalm 90:1-2). CHAPTER ONE . b. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. These prophets may be the stars themselves. This points to a common, pre-Babel beginning for all these things, before the truth of the constellations was corrupted. Joseph. Genesis Chapter 3 Bible Study: One little bite - The fall of mankind; Genesis Chapter 4 Bible Study: So Long Ago The Garden; Genesis Chapter 8 Bible Study: The Mystery of … So we see that all things were created by Jesus and for Jesus. The first five days of creation.. c. C.S. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. -------------------- Some are troubled by the questions, “Where did God come from?” and “Who created God?” The answer is found in the definition of God – that God is the uncreated Being, eternal, and without beginning or end. For a comprehensive study of the passage, download the Study Guide (PDF download). i. They were thus created as mature plants, having the “appearance” of age. He hoped to find evidence of life by using a super sensitive instrument to pick up radio signals from distant space. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Darwin wrote: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.” Professor Richard Goldschmidt, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkley, listed a series of complex structures (from the hair of mammals to hemoglobin) he thought could not have been produced by thousands of years of small mutations. We see that the earth was barren and empty but there is hope for the Spirit hovers nearby. i. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”. (Gen 1:9-13) The third day of creation: the land is divided from the sea; plants and all types of vegetation are created. General Epistles Let them be for signs and seasons: God made the sun and the moon – these lights in the firmament of the heavens to be for signs and seasons. i. “It will hardly be safe to say that the body of man is patterned after God, because God, being an incorporeal spirit, cannot have what we term a material body. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”. John 1:1-3  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Wisdom Literature g. Let them have dominion: Before God ever created man He decreed man would have dominion over the earth. 6. And God saw that it was good. Yet the body of man must at least be regarded as the fittest receptacle for the man’s spirit and so must bear at least an analogy that is so close that God and His angels choose to appear in human form when they appear to men.” (Leupold). The mission of Jesus was foreordained before the foundation of the world: He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. The verb reappears in Deuteronomy 32:11 to describe the eagle’s movements in stirring its young into flight.” (Kidner), c. The earth was without form, and void: When God created the earth, He quite likely built an “old” earth, creating things in the midst of a time sequence, with age “built in.”. Genesis 1:2-4  'Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Abram and Sarai were still without a child of their own so Sarai approached Abram with what was a culturally acceptable custom of the day. c. Then God blessed them: the first thing God did for man was to bless him. Please have a think before carrying on. The Gospels Psalm 19:1-6 tells us the heavens contain a message from God. Dark matter is a term scientists use to explain an enormous apparent excess of gravity in the universe. The sun God created to govern the day, and the moon He created to rule the night. And it was so: This is the beginning of life on planet earth, directly created by God, not slowly evolving over millions of years. i. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. (Gen 1:20-23) The fifth day of creation: birds and sea creatures are created. e. And God saw that it was good: God knows what is good. i. Refer to Psalm 33:6. Genesis Chapter 3 Bible Study: One little bite - The fall of mankind, Genesis Chapter 4 Bible Study: So Long Ago The Garden. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And God called the firmament Heaven. But the moths are still moths, and the finches are still finches. Let the earth bring forth the living creature: On the fifth day of creation, God made birds and sea animals, but now God turns His creative attention towards land animals of various types. Genesis 1:9-13 9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. The light we have depends upon His life living through us just as the moon is totally reliant upon the sun to look at all attractive! Those who follow this idea look to Isaiah 45:18: For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other.” The idea is God here says He did not create the world in vain (the Hebrew word is the same as the word for void in Genesis 1:1). We can study God, but we can’t put Him under a microscope or test Him in a laboratory. No, for God is spirit (  John 4:24  ) To quote the Bible Knowledge Commentary: "Human life was created in (lit., 'as,' meaning 'in essence as') the image of God (v. 27). 16 God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. (Gen 1:27-31) God’s creation of man and initial commission to Adam. It might have been wiser to spend the money cultivating intelligent life in Washington. The scientific priesthood that has authority to interpret the official creation story gains immense cultural influence thereby, which it might lose if the story were called into question. 12. ii. Mencken, Broadway, and Hollywood, and was a huge public relations triumph for Darwinism. ", This image then was lost to a large degree with the fall and man's separation from his creator. However, this is not the plain grammatical sense of the ancient Hebrew. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution.”. Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. Atoms merged to form dust clouds, which grew into stars and galaxies and clusters. iii. He should not doubt that, however simple they may seem, these are the very words, works, judgments, and deeds of the high majesty, power, and wisdom of God.” (Luther, cited in Boice). It would serve as a global greenhouse, maintaining an essentially uniformly pleasant temperature all over the world. Prophets Scientific inquiry is the glory of man; yet it must all be done with utmost humility, realizing God conceals these matters for man to search out. But the words Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God” cannot mean this, because faith, as Hebrews 11:1 tells us, is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This argues at least as persuasively for a common Designer as it does for a common life source. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. b. Some scientists may be overly sure when it comes to what can be known of the universe, but we do not have to accept such arrogance. (Ephesians 1:4). Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.'. i. b. The verbs and pronouns used with Elohim should be in the plural, but when Elohim refers to the Lord God the verbs and pronouns are in the singular. The universe has a just-right gravitational force. Myths were Lewis’ business as a literary scholar, and he could see the Biblical account of creation was unlike mythical accounts. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. The New Testament So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. iii. The Bible would be incomplete and perhaps incomprehensible without the Book of Genesis. Recent observations, for example, suggest that the universe is younger than its oldest stars – an enigma that has astronomers scrambling for explanations. 2. Here are some questions for you -. Then the only dignity or honor we bestow upon men is pure sentimentality, because I don’t have any more significance than an amoebae; then there is no greater law in the universe than survival of the fittest. General Epistles He has been doing it right from the days of  Genesis 1:1  . 11. The students discussed it for a while and decided they had 5% of all human knowledge among themselves. The vapor blanket would filter out ultraviolet radiation, cosmic rays, and other destructive energies bombarding the planet. v. A vapor blanket would provide the necessary reservoir for a potential worldwide flood. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, He will have enough children and grandchildren and further descendants to populate a nation. It is hard to explain how plants and all vegetation could grow and thrive eons before the sun and the moon. But God did all this Himself: “Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand up together.” (Isaiah 48:13), iv. Daily Study Questions for Genesis Chapter 1 Day One. The Gospels Johannine Writings The philosopher Jean-Paul Sarte stated the essential problem of philosophy: there is something, instead of nothing. d. In fact, the more they find out, the more they discover how much they don’t know. Man’s pre-eminence of the created order and his ability to affect his environment is no accident; it is part of God’s plan for man and the earth. The Beginning - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The faith of humble Christians understands this better than the fancy of the most learned men. 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