GENESIS
CHAPTER ONE
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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[GEN
1:1]:
I)
GOD IS A SOLE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE
A)
[PS 19:1]
B)
[REV 4:11]
C)
[HEB 11:3]
D)
[JER 51:15-16]
II)
STAGE ONE OF CREATION IS A RECENT AND NOT A RUINED OR CHAOTIC ONE
A)
[GEN 1:31-2:1]
B)
[HEB 4:3b-4]
C)
[2 PET 3:3-8]
III)
THE GOD OF CREATION IS INDICATED AS A SINGULAR GOD WITH MORE THAN ONE
PERSONALITY
A)
[GEN 3:22]
B)
[DT 6:4]
C)
[GEN 2:24]
D)
[GEN 22:2]
E)
[ECCL 12:1]
F)
[ISA 54:5]
G)
[PRO 30:4]
IV)
THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED OUT OF NOTHING
A)
[RO 4:17]
B)
[HEB 11:3]
C)
[PS 33:6-9]
D)
[COL 1:16]
V)
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH = BASIC SPACE-TIME-MATTER CREATED BEFORE FINAL
DETAILS AND LIFEFORMS WERE ADDED
A)
[GEN 12:5]
B)
[GEN 1:11]
[GEN
1:1-2]
VI)
A SERIES OF HISTORICAL "ANDs" ESTABLISH CONSECUTIVE AND RECENT
ACTION OVER SIX 24 HOURS DAYS
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VII)
AND AT THIS POINT THE EARTH WAS YET WITHOUT FORM AND LIFE AND LIGHT - TO
BE ADDED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS
A)
[2 PET 3:5b]
B)
[PR 8:26-27]
VIII)
A GAP THEORY OF TIME BETWEEN VERSES ONE AND TWO IS REFUTED
A)
"FORMLESS AND VOID" IN GEN 1:2 INDICATES THE EARLY STAGE OF
GOD'S CREATION PROCESS AND NOT A CONDITION OF DETERIORATION
1)
[ISA 24:1]
2)
[JER 4:23-31]
3)
[JER 4:1]
4)
[JER 4:27]
B)
THE DOCTRINES OF SCRIPTURE REFUTE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE GAP THEORY
1)
GEN 1:28 COMMANDS MAN TO MULTIPLY & FILL THE EARTH NOT REPLENISH
WHAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN THERE
a)
[GEN 1:27-28]
2)
THE EARTH WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR MAN
a)
[GEN 1:26]
b)
HEB 2:5-8]
c)
[ISA 45:18]
d)
[MT 25:34]
3)
SINCE THE CHAOTIC AND DYING CONDITION OF TODAY'S CREATION WAS A RESULT
OF ADAM'S FALL, THE EARTH BEFORE ADAM WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THAT WAY
a)
[RO 5:12]
b)
[1 COR 15:21]
c)
[RO 8:19-22]
4)
THE EARTH CREATED ONE TIME RECENTLY
a)
[REV 21:1]
b)
[GEN 2:1-2]
c)
[Heb 4:3b-4]
5)
THE GEOLOGICAL AGES MODEL BELIES THE GAP MODEL WHICH WAS CONCEIVED OF IN
ORDER TO SUPPORT IT!
6)
THE GAP THEORY CONTRADICTS THE ESSENCE OF GOD
7)
MAN WAS THERE AT THE BEGINNING
a)
[MK 10:6]
b)
[GEN 2:1-2]
8)
GOD SAID IT WAS VERY GOOD NOT RUINED OR CHAOTIC
IX)
THE EARTH AT THIS A STAGE WAS FORMLESS, VOID OF LIFE, WATERY AND DARK AS
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT CONTINUED HIS CREATION WORK
A)
[2 PET 3:5 b]
B)
[PR 8:26-27]
C)
[ISA 40:22]
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1:3-5]
X)
THE DAY = AGE THEORY REFUTED
A)
SUCCESSIVE DAYS IN HEBREW WITH AN ORDINAL ADJECTIVE AND AN EVENING AND A
MORNING = SOLAR, 24 HOUR DAYS
1)
YÔM AND NUMBERS
2)
YÔM AND OTHER WORDS
B)
EXODUS 20:8-11 REFERS TO 24 HOUR CREATION DAYS
C)
DAY = AGE THEORY CONTRADICTS GEOLOGICAL AGE THEORY WHICH IT FALSELY
ATTEMPTS TO SUPPORT
D)
DAY=AGE THEORY WOULD NOT ENABLE LIFE ON EARTH TO SURVIVE
E)
DAY = AGE THEORY CONTRADICTS BIBLE'S TEACHING THAT DEATH FOLLOWED SIN
AND DID NOT COME BEFORE IT
XI)
'LET THERE BE' = SIGNIFIES SOMETHING WHICH HAS JUST BEEN CREATED WHERE
THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE IT BEFORE
XII)
GOD CREATES LIGHT AND THE EARTH EXPERIENCES EVENING AND MORNING FOR THE
FIRST TIME (WITHOUT LIGHT EMANATING BODIES)
A)
[PS 33:6, 9]
B)
[PS 115:16]
XIII)
ANGELS CREATED
A)
[JOB 38:4-7]
B)
[PS 104:1-5]
XIV)
THE LIGHT WAS THERE BEFORE LIGHT BEARING BODIES WERE CREATED
[GEN
1:6-8]
XV)
GOD THEN CREATED A FIRMAMENT IN HEAVEN DIVIDING THE WATERY MASS IN THE
STRATOSPHERE INTO TWO HEAVENLY MASSES OF WATER
A)
THE THREE HEAVENS DEFINED AS STRATOSPHERIC, STELLAR AND GOD'S THRONE
1)
THE ATMOSPHERIC HEAVEN
a)
[JER 4:25]
2)
STELLAR = THE STARS, OUTER SPACE = HEAVEN
a)
[ISA 13:10]
3)
GOD'S THRONE ROOM
a)
[HEB 9:24]
b)
[MT 5:34]
c)
[PS 148:4-6]
B)
FIRMAMENT DEFINED AS AN EXTENDED FLATTENED OUT EXPANSE DIVIDING THE
WATERS IN THE HEAVENS
1)
[JOB 37:18]
2)
[ISA 44:24]
3)
[PS 148:4-6]
C)
THE FIRMAMENT DESCRIBED AS METALLIC CRYSTALLINE HYDROGEN - A WATER VAPOR
CANOPY IS A RULED OUT
[GEN
1:9-10]
XVI)
GOD THEN GATHERS THE TERRESTRIAL WATERS TO ONE PLACE CREATING A SINGLE
MASSIVE TERRESTRIAL LAND MASS
A)
[PS 33:7]
B)
[GEN 2:5-6]
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[GEN
1:11-13]
XVII)
GOD CREATED VEGETATION ON THE EARTH
A)
THE TIME SPAN FOR THIS WAS A LITERAL 24 HOUR DAY IN WHICH FULLY MATURE
PLANT LIFE APPEARED
1)
[GEN 1:24]
2)
[MK 10:6]
3)
[1 COR 15:38-39]
B)
THERE ARE NO CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN GENESIS CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO.
CHAPTER ONE IS THE OVERVIEW TO WHICH CHAPTER TWO PROVIDES MORE DETAIL
1)
INTRODUCTION: OBJECTORS CLAIM CONFLICTING SEQUENCES OF CREATION,
CONTRADICTORY CONCEPTS OF GOD, DRAMATIC DIFFERENCES IN WRITING STYLE,
I.E., DIFFERENT AUTHORS BETWEEN CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO
2)
[GEN 2:1-6] & [GEN 1:11]
a)
BUT GEN 2:4 REFERS BACK TO CHAPTER ONE NOT FORWARD.
AND
THEN 2:5 ZOOMS IN TO A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF WHAT
CHAPTER ONE DESCRIBED.
b)
[GEN 1:9-10]
3)
THE WORD 'GENERATIONS' = 'TOLEDOTHS' IS THE PIVOTAL WORD UPON WHICH
CHAPTER 2 THEN TURNS TO DETAILS OF WHAT WAS PRESENTED IN CHAPTER ONE
a)
[GEN 2:4-5]
4)
DIFFERENCES IN STYLE DO NOT SIGNIFY DIFFERENT AUTHORS BUT A CHANGE IN
FOCUS AND CONTEXT. OTHER 'DIFFERENCES' ARE IMAGINARY
5)
NAMES FOR GOD DIFFERING BETWEEN CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO INDICATED A CONTEXT
CHANGE, NOT A CHANGE IN AUTHORS
6)
IMAGINARY CONTRADICTIONS DISSOLVE BEFORE A CLOSE ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT
AND CONTEXT
a)
CRITICS' CLAIM CONTRADICTION:
GEN
1: A WATERY BEGINNING
VS
GEN
2: A DRY LAND BEGINNING
i)
[GEN 1:9-10]
ii)
[GEN 2:5]
iii)
[GEN 1:11]
b)
CRITICS' CLAIM: DIFFERENT SEQUENCES OF CREATION BETWEEN CHAPTERS ONE AND
TWO
i)
[EX 17:1; 19:2]
ii)
[JOSHUA 2:22]
iii)
[1 KGS 13:12]
[GEN
1:14-19]
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XVIII)
GOD CREATES THE LIGHT EMANATING HEAVENLY BODIES
A)
ON THE FIRST DAY GOD CREATED LIGHT, THEN ON THE FOURTH DAY HE CREATED
LIGHT EMANATING BODIES
B)
ONE PURPOSE OF THE LIGHT AND LIGHT EMANATING BODIES WAS TO DIVIDE LIGHT
FROM DARKNESS
C)
FROM THE FIRST DAY LIGHT ARRIVED WITHOUT COMING FROM THE SUN, MOON AND
STARS - WHICH WERE NOT CREATED YET. LATER, THE LIGHT EMANATING BODIES
WERE CREATED TO MARK THE SEASONS, DAYS AND YEARs
1)
[Compare Isa 60:19-20]:
D)
THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED FULLY GROWN. IT DID NOT EVOLVE
E)
THE EXISTENCE OF NOVAS & SUPERNOVAS AND THEORIES OF STELLAR &
GALACTIC EVOLUTION DO NOT REFUTE THE CONCEPT OF THE RECENT CREATION OF A
MATURE UNIVERSE
F)
DAYLIGHT AND NIGHTTIME ON PREFLOOD EARTH WERE NOT AS DIFFERENT AS TODAY
G)
APPEARANCE OF THE STARS WAS MAGNIFIED IN COLOR BY THE 'RAQIYA' FIRMAMENT
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[GEN
1:20-23]
XIX)
LIVING CREATURES ARE CREATED:
FIRST
SEA AND BIRD LIFE ON DAY 5 AND THEN LAND CREATURES ON DAY 6, (vv. 24-25)
A)
INCLUDING SEA DWELLING MONSTER SIZED CREATURES ON DAY 5 AND DINOSAURS ON
DAY 6, (vv. 24-25)
1)
[LEV 4:3]
2)
[JOB 40:15-24]
3)
[JOB 41:1-34]
B)
ALL KINDS OF SEA AND BIRD LIFE ARE IMMEDIATELY CREATED FROM THE SIMPLEST
TO THE MOST COMPLEX
C)
"LIFE" = "NEPHESH" 3 DEFINITIONS WHICH ARE USED IN
SCRIPTURE
1)
"LIFE" = "NEPHESH" = THAT INVISIBLE AND IMMATERIAL
LIFE PRINCIPLE WHICH ANIMATES THE BODIES OF ANIMALS AND MAN
2)
"LIFE" = "NEPHESH" = A FIGURE OF SPEECH FOR THE
WHOLE PERSON
3)
"LIFE" = "NEPHESH" = THE UNIQUE PART OF MAN WHICH
TRANSCENDS THE LIFE PRINCIPLE [DEFN #1], SEPARATING HIM FROM ANIMALS AND
LIKENING HIM TO GOD AND WHICH REMAINS CONSCIOUS AFTER DEATH
D)
BIBLICAL CREATIONISM PUTS LAND PLANTS FIRST THEN MARINE & BIRD LIFE
SIMULTANEOUSLY, CONTRADICTING THE IMAGINARY EVOLUTIONARY ORDER
[GEN
1:24-25]
XX)
NEXT, LIVING CREATURES OF THE LAND ARE CREATED
A)
[GEN 2:19-20]
B)
ALL CATEGORIES OF LAND ANIMALS WERE CREATED SIMULTANEOUSLY, NO
EVOLUTION, ONLY CREATION
C)
THE WORLD WAS NOW FULLY PREPARED FOR THE CREATION OF MAN
[GEN
1:26-27]
XXI)
LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE
A)
GOD IS MADE UP OF MORE THAN ONE PERSONALITY, HENCE THE PLURAL FORMS IN
THE PHRASE, "LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE"
B)
MAN IS CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE
1)
[Compare Ps 8:5-8 NIV]:
2)
[Compare Gen 5:2]:
3)
[Compare Gen 2:23]
C)
EVERY INDIVIDUAL MAN CONSISTS OF BODY, SOUL & SPIRIT, PERSONALLY AND
UNIQUELY CREATED BY GOD
1)
[Compare Gen 2:7 NAS]:
2)
[Genesis 2:7]:
3)
[Compare Job 33:4]:
4)
[Compare Eccl 12:7]:
5)
[Compare. Isa 42:5]:
6)
[Zech 12:1]:
7)
[Heb 12:9]:
D)
THE LAST ACT OF CREATION WAS THAT OF WOMAN
1)
GEN 2:18-23
a)
IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE MAN TO BE ALONE
b)
GOD ARRANGED FOR ADAM TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH MANY OF THE ANIMALS AND TO
NAME THEM
c)
OBJECTORS' CLAIM OF A CONTRADICTION IN SEQUENCE OF CREATION REFUTED:
ADAM WAS NAMING THE CREATURES THAT WERE ALREADY CREATED
d)
OBJECTORS CLAIM THAT ADAM COULD NOT HAVE NAMED EVERY LIVING CREATURE IS
ANSWERED: THE BIBLE INDICATES THAT ONLY CERTAIN ANIMALS WERE BROUGHT TO
ADAM, NOT EVERY CREATURE
e)
AS ADAM GAVE NAMES TO THE ANIMALS IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT THERE WAS NO
MATE FOR HIM
f)
EVE'S FORMATION (CREATION) AFTER AND OUT OF ADAM'S SIDE REFUTES THE
EVOLUTIONARY MODEL AND ESTABLISHES MARRIAGE, THE FIRST HUMAN
INSTITUTION, TO SERVE GOD
1)
[Compare Gen 2:23]:
2)
[Gen 5:2]:
g)
ALTHOUGH ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM AND EVE HAVE INHERITED THEIR
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CHARACTERISTICS BY GENETIC TRANSMISSION, EACH
INDIVIDUAL HAS AN ETERNAL SPIRIT DIRECTLY FROM GOD AND IS THUS CAPABLE
OF FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
h)
EVE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ADAM PARALLELS THAT OF THE CHURCH AS THE BRIDE
OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
[Gen
1:27-31]:
XXII)
MAN WAS COMMANDED TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH WITH
HIS KIND WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGE
A)
Compare Gen 6:4 KJV]:
B)
[Gen 1:14-19]:
C)
[Job 38:4-9]:
[Gen
1:31-2:4 NAS]:
XXIII)
THE STAGES OF CREATION OF THE HEAVENS & THE EARTH WERE COMPLETED IN
SIX DAYS - THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO BE DONE, NO EVOLUTION REQUIRED -
AND IT ALL WAS VERY GOOD
XXIV)
ONCE COMPLETELY CREATED AND PERFECT IN GOD'S EYES BUT THEN CONTAMINATED
BY THE FALL, THE HEAVENS & THE EARTH ARE NOW DEVOLVING AND
DETERIORATING
A)
PRESENT PROCESSES ARE OF CONSERVATION & DISINTEGRATION NOT THE
CREATIVE PROCESSES OF INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION
B)
THE TWO UNIVERSAL LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS REFLECT CREATION'S DEVOLUTION &
DETERIORATION
C)
SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION OF TODAY'S PROCESSES, INCLUDING CONSERVATION AND
DISINTEGRATION INDICATES THAT SUCH PROCESSES COULD NEVER HAVE PRODUCED
LIFE, THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE
D)
SINCE WE CANNOT OBSERVE WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE WE
ARE LEFT WITH GOD'S REVELATION TO MANKIND IN THE BIBLE OF WHAT HAPPENED
XXV)
THE SEVENTH DAY OF CREATION WAS A 24 HR DAY JUST LIKE THE OTHER 6 DAYS,
A DAY IN WHICH GOD RESTED FROM HIS WORK OF CREATION
XXVI)
"THIS IS THE ACCOUNT [TOLEDOTHS = GENERATIONS = STAGES] OF THE
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHEN THEY WERE CREATED" REFERS BACK TO THE
STAGES OF THE 6 SUCCESSIVE DAYS OF CREATION WHICH WERE JUST DETAILED FOR
THE READER IN GENESIS CHAPTER ONE AND NOT FORWARD TO GENERATIONS OF
HUMANKIND IN LATER CHAPTERS OF GENESIS
XXVII)
THE GENESIS ACCOUNT OF CREATION IS NOT MYTHOLOGICAL
A)
NEITHER POPULAR OPINION NOR PRIOR EXISTENCE OF SIMILAR ACCOUNTS
INVALIDATES THE GENESIS ACCOUNT OR ANY ACCOUNT
B)
PROPER APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTENTS OF AN ANCIENT
MANUSCRIPT
1)
RULE #1: IN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT INTERPRETATION:
LET THE WORDS SAY WHAT THEY
MEAN (WHICH MEANS PROPER TRANSLATION). THEN CHECK OUT WHETHER OR NOT THE
INTERPRETATION IS TRUTH ON THE BASIS OF AVAILABLE EVIDENCE &
TESTIMONY.
2)
RULE #2: IF NO EVIDENCE OR TESTIMONY IS AVAILABLE TO FAIRLY PROVE OR
DISPROVE THE ACCOUNT THEN THE CONCLUSION IS INCONCLUSIVE!].
C)
CONCLUSION
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