- (Gen 1:1) In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- In 1820 scientist Herbert Spencer defined five things by which to study the unknown: Time, Force, Action, Space, Matter.
- In Genesis 1:1 these are all defined:
- In the beginning = ____________
- God = ____________
- Created = ____________
- The heavens = ____________
- The earth = ____________
- Romans 1:18-25, Eph 2:1-10
- In the beginning God ____________ existed.
- John 1:1-3, Colossians 1:16-18, Hebrews 11:3. Acts 17:28, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 45:12, Revelation 4:11
- Genesis 1:1 is a ____________ statement introducing what will come next.
- This is the opening of the account of creation that is concluded in Genesis 2:1-4
- (Gen 1:2) The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
- Two ideas are often presented between verses 1 and 2
- Gap theory
- Summary and generalization
- Acts 17:24-25
- In the same way God ____________ a beautiful and functional world for us
- We reflect His creative nature when we make things of both function and ____________ from the elements around us.
- Creativeness is one of the traits we take on from our ____________ in heaven.
- The matter of the earth is in a state of chaos described as
- Without form and ____________
- Darkness
- The ____________
- Genesis 7:11, Genesis 8:2
- These do not indicate a lack of God, but rather an ____________ work. God was not through with it yet.
- In much the same way sinners are transformed by the work of ____________
- The church is brought forth from chaos and darkness in the lost ____________.
- Transformed into the bride of Christ.
- Deuteronomy 32:10-11, Genesis 1:2, Jeremiah 23:9
- (Gen 1:3) And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- God is the active agent in each step of the creation account.
- When ____________ speaks, things happen
- (Gen 1:4) And God saw that the ____________ was good. And God separated the light from the ____________.
- Every single aspect of our lives is dependent on light
- But note that we do not have a light source yet. It will not be until day four that we have the sun, moon, and stars.
- God is creating periods of light and periods of darkness
- In bringing order from chaos, God is setting up the functions of ____________.
- Marking off these periods of time we have a period of light and a period of darkness
- (Gen 1:5) God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- Why is it significant to see the boundaries of a day and a night repeated again twice in this verse?
- Day can be a ____________ term: “One of these days I am going to…”
- Day in this verse is ____________ as in one marked out day with morning and evening.
- This is a key point of creationism vs theistic evolution
- Creationism: God ____________ all things
- Theistic Evolution: God started a process and let evolution go ____________ it
- Psalm 19:1, Ecclesiastes 2:1-13, Ps 148:1-14
