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Genesis foundation

Genesis foundation. Genesis 1-11 Genesis does Matter. Evolution vs God. Is it God or Genetics? A re we the creation of a supreme being, or just some natural selection of primal soup ? Did God create man or did man create God?.

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Genesis foundation

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  1. Genesis foundation Genesis 1-11 Genesis does Matter

  2. Evolution vs God • Is it God or Genetics? Are we the creation of a supreme being, or just some natural selection of primal soup? • Did God create man or did man create God?

  3. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence " I don’t have enough faith to be an Atheist"

  4. In The Beginning… • An Egyptian creation text from Thebes speaks of the god Amun who evolved in the beginning, or on the first occasion. • Egyptologist interpret this not as an abstract idea but as a reference to a first-time event. The Hebrew word for “beginning” usually refers not to a point in time but to an initial period. This suggest that the beginning period is the seven days of chapter one. • Also, the Babylonian creation event, Enuma Elish, bears similar qualities. • In this text, the sky god Anu, creates the four winds that stir up the deep along with its goddess.

  5. In the beginning god created • Genesis 1.1-1.2 is called the “Creation Poem” or the “Creation Hymn”. • Who wrote the creation Hymn? • It was used by Moses, however, it was written long before. • Adam, Abraham, Noah, or Enoch are a few of the possibilities. • Writing was in common use ages before the days of Moses.

  6. creation • Some of God’s “commandments, statutes and laws” were in existence in the days of Abraham, 600 years before the days of Moses. • (Genesis 26:5) • How did the author know what had occurred before man appeared? • No doubt God revealed to him the remote past, just as later the future was made know to the prophets.

  7. World was or became (gap theory) • G.H Pember’s book, Earths earliest ages, has had the biggest influence within Gap Theory. • Every word and phrase of Genesis 1:2, like 1:1, is vitally important to a sound understanding of God’s created universe • 1 “And the Earth was…” it is significant that every verse in the first chapter of Genesis (except Genesis 1:1) begins with the conjunction “ And” (Hebrew word waw). This structure clearly means that each statement is sequentially and chronologically connected to the verse before and after. Therefore, there does not appear to be any room for a gap of any consequence between the first two verses of Genesis • The Gap theory proposes that the word was the Hebrew word hayetha, and that the better translation would be “became”. When looking at it this way • Hayetha, “was”, and haphak, “became”. While hayetha can also, if the context (is king) warrants, be used to introduce a change of state, it simply means “was” in 98 percent of its occurrences.

  8. Was or became ----creation • Another note, advocates for the Gap Theory use the word “void” to mean ruined or desolate. This idea advances the belief that things lived before God decided to create a new earth. Some believe that this was the time of Satan’s flood, when he (Lucifer) fell to earth. • So how did we get the Creation narrative? • Who wrote it? • Why is there other stories about creation that date before the time of Genesis? • Was it really six literal days ? • Did God use evolution for creation? • Is the earth billions of years old?

  9. Creation of God’s Earth • Was it six days? • “And God said let there be light-------there was evening , there was morning, the first day”. • “Then God said let there be an expanse------there was evening , there was morning the second day”. • So and So forth until the six day. • The word Hebrew word for day is Yom, this word is mentioned 2301 times in the Old Testament. • Every time it is mentioned, the number before it (the word Yom) means that amount.

  10. Day Age • The key term in this attempted harmony is the word day, as it is used in Genesis 1. The Hebrew word for day is yom, and, we are reminded, it is used in a variety of ways: (1) the daylight period in the diurnal cycle as in Genesis 1:5, 14, 16, 18; (2) a normal 24-hour period; and (3) an indefinite time period as in Psalm 90:10. • A passage that is invariably appealed to is 2 Peter 3:8: "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." Also, it is claimed that too much activity took place on the sixth day (Genesis 2) to fit into a normal day: Adam's naming of thousands of animals, his perception of his loneliness, and the subsequent creation of Eve. • Verse 8 was never intended to be a mathematical formula of 1 = 1000 or 1000 = 1. The point is that God created time, as well as the universe, and therefore stands above it (cf. Heb. 1:2). While we mortals think 1000 years is a long time, God can scan 1000 years of history — past and future — as quickly as we can scan from one end of the horizon to the other. The verse could have equally been worded, "Five minutes is with the Lord as ten thousand years," and still have conveyed the same message.

  11. Evolution • Did God use evolution to create all living things? • If so, my biggest question would be WHY?!? • On page 526 of his book, Origin of Life, Darwin states that all living things MAY have developed from lower life forms. • Dawkins, Nye, and many other scientist don’t believe in God, thus, they have turned evolution from a theory to a fact, claiming that science isn’t presented in the Bible. • How did evolution turn from theory to fact in our schools? What about Christians who believe in Theistic Evolution? • Day age Theory and Theistic evolution?

  12. DNA =MOLECULES TO MAN • Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses. • Everything according to its own kind: DNA • How did life begin? • Two options, either created by an intelligent source (GOD) or by natural processes. • In textbooks today, life arose from nonlife in a pool of chemicals about 3.8 billion years ago. The claim by evolutionists is that this formation of life was the result of time, chance, and natural processes. • So how did amino acids (building blocks for life) turn from one organism to man? • Aa Bb Cc Dd genetic codes of their own kind.

  13. Christianity is under attack, If we just believe in Jesus, does it really matter how old the earth is, or if God used evolution to create life?

  14. Millions of years of souls are at stake? • Romans 10:9 states that “if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. • It does not state, “ if you believe that the Earth is 6000 years old and it was created in six literal days, you will be saved. SO, WHATS THE BIG DEALif I don’t believe in that? • AUTHORITY ISSUE: • GOSPEL ISSUE: • INDIRECT SALVATION ISSUE: • Genesis 3:15

  15. Genesis • Origin of man; many things are written about the origin of man. • The Bible gives us Biblical science of the origin of man. • What sets the Bible apart from every other theory about man is that it gives us the destination and meaning of life • GOD’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS CHILDREN AND THE SALVATION THAT IS FOUND THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, HIS SON. • AMEN.

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