Genesis, chapter 1

1. Genesis, chapter 1 • NIV Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 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.

2. Genesis, chapter 1 • The existence, wisdom, and greatness of God are shown by the things that He has made so that none are without excuse to believe that there is a Divine Architect to all things. On the Last Day, no one will be able to say that they did not know a Divine Being was out there.

3. Genesis, chapter 1 • NIV Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-- his eternal power and divine nature-- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.NIV Acts 17:26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

4. ex nihilo • We make. • We manufacture. • We manipulate. • God alone truly creates. • Ex nihilo is a common term in theology that only the Lord can create out of nothing.

5. Genesis, chapter 1 • We see a formless mass (of the waters) by which all things will be made. • God uses water to mightily bless His people throughout the Bible. • Creation. Flood. Red Sea. Jordan Crossing. Ceremonial washing. Jesus’ baptism. • Notice each water is drastically less in external amount so that the focus is on the internal.

6. Genesis, chapter 1 • Note: These waters decrease in physical power and quantity through His-story, BUT… • They increase in the pledge of a good conscious towards God.

7. Genesis, chapter 1 • NIV 1 Peter 3:21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also-- not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

8. Genesis, chapter 1 • 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-- the first day.

9. Let there be light!

10. Day means Day -- Yom • NIV Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

11. There was evening, and there was morning- • In many places and in the Bible, the day does not begin and end at midnight. It begins and ends at the setting of the sun. The repetition of this phrase clarifies the 24 hour time period ascribed to each step to create all things in perfect harmony. The image of God (mankind) would reflect this in his/her own lives on earth.

12. Genesis, chapter 1 • NIV John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

13. Light • The nature of God (the Deity) is beyond human understanding. He needs to make himself known in a way that we can understand. Jesus is the Light and the Word. He is the revelation of the incomprehensible God. • NIV John 14:9 Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

14. Genesis, chapter 1 • 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. 2 Corinthians 4:6.

15. Genesis, chapter 1 • From the very start, Christ was part of the God-head by which we can perceive Him (light) and through whom all things were made.

16. The Lord Jesus is the full revelation (LIGHT) of the God who created all things • NIV John 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

17. The NT Teaches the Lord Jesus is the LIGHT of the God who Created All Things • NIV Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.

18. The NT Teaches the Lord Jesus is the LIGHT of the God who Created All Things • NIV Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

19. Genesis, chapter 1 • NIV John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

20. Jesus is the LIGHT and the WORD simultaneously • NIV John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

21. Genesis, chapter 1 • 6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-- the second day.

22. The Second Day

23. Water seperated from Water? • This is either a reference to rain or to a stratosphere of water.

24. Were there rain and storms before the Fall into sin? • Genesis 2:6 says, “but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.”

25. Were there rain and storms before the Fall into sin? • Before the flood (Genesis chapters 6-9), the earth was surrounded by a firmament of water. These are the waters that God released, causing the flood. It seems that before the flood, the dew and ample water supply was enough to keep creation watered.

26. Were there rain and storms before the Fall into sin? • The Bible does not specifically tell us whether if it had rained before the flood or not. Noah seemed to understand what rain was when God mentioned it to him (Genesis 7:4-5). Genesis 2:4-6 mentions that God did not send rain on the earth until after He created Adam and Eve.

27. Noah understood rain… • But the rain patterns that we experience in a post-flood world may be different than the pre-flood world experienced. Our rains might not be as “gentle” as the daily watering.

28. Water FROM ABOVE separated from Water FROM BELOW? • NIV Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month-- on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

29. The Floodgates • Streams came up to water creation. • And a major river came up also. • Genesis 2:10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

30. The Floodgates • From Eden came a river that branched out into other rivers to water creation. We know rivers normally form from smaller tributaries. The pre-Flood world may have seen this in part, but the major river of Eden broke into smaller ones to irrigate a large portion of the world at that time.

31. Many creationists believe a stratus of water surrounded the earth protecting it from harmful radiation and creating a more uniform climate. Evolutionists are baffled as to how dinosaurs lived near the North Pole. Wouldn’t they freeze in the dark months? But the vegetation along with fossils indicate year round warmth.

32. Creationism notes that the foundations of the single continent were broken Up and shifted across the globe in the Flood. And a stratosphere would create a more mild global climate. This would also solve the mystery of the great size of many creatures if the stratosphere made the earth to be like a hyperbaric chamber. Perhaps, we also have experienced atmospheric loss.

33. Hyperbaric World? • A related effect is the increased oxygen transport capacity of the blood. Under [present] atmospheric pressure, oxygen transport is limited by the oxygen binding capacity of hemoglobin in red blood cells and a dramatically decreased amount of oxygen is actually transported by blood plasma. Oxygen transport by plasma, however is significantly increased under HBOT. Wikipedia.

34. Why do we heal so much better in a hyperbaric world??? • A new study shows autism may be improved by using hyperbaric oxygen chambers. This is the first study of autistic children and hyperbaric oxygen chambers using a tightly monitored group. Researchers from BioMed Pediatrics gathered 62 children from different centers who had been diagnosed with autism, from ages two to seven, and gave them 40 hours worth of oxygen treatments.

35. Why do we heal so much better in a hyperbaric world??? • The results were surprisingly good. 80% improved, while the other 8% in the control group showed no difference. It is not known yet whether or not the improvements this brought about in social development, cognitive behavior, language skills, and eye contact are long term, or if they are short term treatments that would have to be done frequently.

36. Genesis, chapter 1 • 9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.

37. The Third Day

38. Genesis, chapter • 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning-- the third day.

39. What is the difference between macro- and mirco-evolution? Why does evolution conflict with the Genesis account? What is the role of death in evolution? Natural. How will the Bible explain death for human and creature? Unnatural. People and animals were originally vegetarians.

40. According to kinds • Species are established as species. Christians can accept mirco-evolution (variations), not macro-evolution (a whole new species).

41. Genesis, chapter 1 • 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights-- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

42. Just imagine the glory we were meant to see at night before the Fall.

43. Genesis, chapter 1 • 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning-- the fourth day.

44. When Moses wrote this… • Many cultures worshipped the heavenly bodies as deities… • Biblical perspective… the heavenly bodies exist to SERVE US with LIGHT in the night. • Even today, the heavenly bodies are worshipped as such.

45. Song – “We are stars, Fashioned in the flesh and bone” The Pierces. • The Universe created us. • Similar train of thought of Carl Sagan mocking the Christian belief in God… • “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be.”

46. Let there be light! • Imagine filming a grenade exploding. You can rewind the film and see it explode backwards (implode) in time to a finite point. Our universe is expanding out like a grenade explosion. This fits with the Biblical account and how the Lord made it possible to distinguish the different heavenly bodies as they spread out.

47. The problems with Big Bang • The problem with the Big Bang theory is the amazing complexity and cooperative nature that atoms and various particles possess. This obviously could not be from a random explosion to form such (1) complexity and (2) necessarily cooperative properties.

48. The problems with Big Bang • Believe it or not, it is immensely difficult in secular science to determine the age of the universe. • The best estimate is that the universe expands 3.2 times faster than the speed of light. There are galaxies that we see that are actually moving away from us faster than the speed of light.

49. How Old? • If a galaxy is 13 billion light years from us (or the center of the universe), then the universe must be 13 billion years old???? Note question marks. • The universe is in constant movement that is not constant in speed or time. When you observe a super nova, it did not occur in the place you saw it. You see the light but the remnants of the crab nebula is actually in a whole new place. • Human history has observed supernovas but we weren’t destroyed by them because they had moved by the time the light came to earth.

50. The problem. • The grenade explosion occurs. Are all particles travelling at the constant same rate? • But in the universe, the laws of physics aren’t the same. • Imagine individual particles speeding up, slowing down, then speeding up.