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)

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).