Why is Genesis so important?
- Acts 17:23-28 – God gave us evidence so we would seek Him.
- Hebrews 11:3
- Colossians 1:16-17
- Psalms 33:6-9
- Romans 1:18-25
- Genesis establishes God’s presence and His power.
- If you don’t believe God created the world, you cannot defend anything in the Bible!
A denial of the literal Genesis account is a denial of Jesus.
- John 5:45-47
- Exodus 20:11
- John 1:1
Repeating theme in Genesis is:
Man’s total dependence on God.
Genesis 1
Genesis 1:1
- God’s omniscience and omnipotence is established.
- God’s authority is evident.
Genesis 1:2
- “Spirit of God” (H7307 – ruah)
- Same word as Genesis 8:1; Exodus 15:8
- “Deep” usually refers to the ocean, but there were no defined oceans yet.
Genesis 1:3
- God spoke and it happened – Psalms 33:9
- Display God’s total control of all the elements, energy, time, and space.
Genesis 1:4-5 – Day 1
- God created light.
- What is light?
- Light is a particle and a wave.
- Light is energy.
- God created energy, quantum mechanics, and physics (a way to control the elements)
- God is organizing his creation in a very specific order.
- God established the period of time to define day and night.
- God called the light good.
- Who was writing Genesis?
- Evening and morning?
Genesis 1:6-8 – Day 2
- God separated the waters.
- There was water on the earth and water in the air.
- Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide.
- Pressure, temperature, gravity
- Science tries to explain creation and chaos.
- God created it with complete control and order.
Genesis 1:9-13 – Day 3
- God gathered the water which caused…
- Dry land to appear.
- Then God created life …
- Vegetation started to sprout
- According to their kind (H4327 – min)
- Vegetation started to sprout
Genesis 1:14-19 – Day 4
- God made the sun, moon, and stars to govern the seasons.
- God made the earth on an axis with tilt, rotation, and spin.
- Do planets help dictate the seasons on earth?
- Why did God create the Sun on Day 1 and not Day 4?
Genesis 1:20-23 – Day 5
- Birds and fish
Genesis 1:24-26 – Day 6
- Animals and everything that crawls on the ground
- Man in our image
Genesis 1:27-31
- God made everything necessary for life to begin and to continue.
- If each day took millions of years, then life would not have survived.
- God’s people understood this to be one week (Exodus 20:9-11).