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Welcome BACK!!!. ABC Youth. Bible Basics. Creation. What is my Goal for this class?. The goal for this class is for all the students to come away seeing the big picture of the Bible so that the Gospel makes sense. The Creation Story: Genesis 1:1-2:3. Day 1: Light Day 2: Sky / Heaven

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  1. Welcome BACK!!! ABC Youth

  2. Bible Basics Creation

  3. What is my Goal for this class? • The goal for this class is for all the students to come away seeing the big picture of the Bible so that the Gospel makes sense.

  4. The Creation Story: Genesis 1:1-2:3 • Day 1: Light • Day 2: Sky / Heaven • Day 3: Land / Vegetation • Day 4: Sun / Moon / Stars • Day 5: Sea Creatures / Birds • Day 6: Land Animals / Man • Day 7: Rest

  5. How long were the days? • Theistic Evolution • Reason One - The text does not suggest that the days are billions of years. Good interpretation of the Bible seeks to find what the Bible is communicating. To say that the days were billions of years seems to be something you put into the text, not take out of it. • Yom – Yom means day… • Reason Two - On Day 4 God creates the sun, moon, and stars. • Notice how the passage words day 4. It says God created the sun, moon, and stars to tell “signs, seasons, days, and years.” This does not make sense if the “days” are billions of years because we don’t have a celestial signal for billions of years. It doesn’t make sense that God would make the sun rise and fall in 24 hours so that we could count it rise and fall a couple billion times and then have a day.

  6. How long were the days? • Reason Three - There was evening and morning every day. • If a day was a billion years, then what was evening and morning? Are we supposed to count 500 million years and call that morning and then the next 500 million and call that evening? The “evening and morning” language included in every day causes big problems for the day/age theory.

  7. Does Evolution Fit with the Biblical Story? • No. Here are two reasons. • Reason 1: If the days are 24 hour days, then there is not enough time for evolution to happen. • Reason 2: God rested on the 7th day. • On the 7th day God rested from his work of creation. If God created through evolution, then evolution should have ceased on day 7.

  8. What Can We Learn about Man from Genesis One? • 1. We (both male and female) are made in God’s image. • Appearance • Emotion • Character • Relational

  9. Incommunicable Attributes of God--belong to God alone (CARM.org) • Holiness • Holiness is God's perfection of character and without flaw and without sin but with complete goodness, justice, mercy, love, etc. (Psalm 71:22; Isaiah 6:3; 1 Peter 1:16). • Immutability • God’s nature does not change in any way.  His essence has always been and will always be exactly the same (Psalm 90:2; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). • Infinite • God is without measure or limit in scope or duration.  There are no constraints upon him from outside of himself that would restrict him in his scope or duration (Genesis 21:33;Deuteronomy 33:27; Isaiah 40:28; Psalm 90:2).

  10. Incommunicable Attributes of God--belong to God alone (CARM.org) • Omnipotence • God is capable of performing anything he desires. (Psalm 33:9; Isaiah 40:28; 46:10). • Omnipresence • God is in all places and in all dimensions simultaneously.  Nothing in the universe exists outside the presence of God (Psalm 139:7-12; Jeremiah 23:24). • Omniscience • God has perfect, complete knowledge.  He never learns, nor does he forget.  He knows all things that exist and all things that could have existed.  God cannot grow in knowledge, understanding, or wisdom (Romans 16:27; Hebrews 4:13; 1 John 3:20).

  11. Incommunicable Attributes of God--belong to God alone (CARM.org) • Self-existence, Non-contingency • God is not dependent upon anything else for his existence.  He is uncaused--the infinite Being who has always existed (Psalm 90:2; 93:2; Hebrews 13:8; 1 Tim. 6:15; Revelation 1:8). • Self-sufficiency • God needs nothing outside of himself to maintain his existence; therefore, he does not need us to fill a void (Psalm 102:24–27). • Sovereignty • God is the supreme being who answers to no one and who has the absolute right to do with his creation as he desires (1 Timothy 6:15; Isaiah 46:10).

  12. Incommunicable Attributes of God--belong to God alone (CARM.org) • Spirit • God exists completely and sufficiently as an immaterial being--without physical characteristics (John 4:24; Luke 24:39). • Transcendence • God's transcendence is the product of the relationship between God's essence and creation. God transcends space and time in that he is not dependent on them nor affected by them (Psalm 139:7-10). • Uniqueness • God alone is God.  There is no one like him.  He is completely "other" than all things that exist (Isaiah 43:10; 44:6-7).

  13. Communicable Attributes of God--can be possessed by people (CARM.org) • Goodness • Being good can only be understood in relationship to God and his character.  Humans can be good in relation to one another, but their standard is subjective.  Therefore, true goodness is understood in light of the revelation of God in his Word.  We can emulate the goodness of God, but we can never be perfectly good. • Hate • God hates (Psalm 5:5; 11:5), and he does so righteously and with perfect judgment and knowledge.  However, we often hate unrighteously and in ignorance. • Justice • Where God always does what is perfectly right according to the law, we do not behave perfectly. We can be lawful, and in so doing we emulate the perfect justice of God.

  14. Communicable Attributes of God--can be possessed by people (CARM.org) • Knowledge • Where God knows all things (1 John 3:20), we only know partially.  Our knowledge is incomplete and always will be incomplete. • Love • God is love (1 John 4:8) and expresses his love perfectly through Jesus.  Because we are touched by sin, our expression of love towards others will always be tainted.  But we are still able to express it. • Rationality • God's mind is perfectly rational since all that God possesses in knowledge and wisdom necessitates his perfect thought.  We, on the other hand, are imperfectly rational.  Our conclusions and deductions are not always correct.  They cannot be since we are affected by sin and do not have all knowledge.

  15. Communicable Attributes of God--can be possessed by people (CARM.org) • Mercy • Mercy is not getting what we deserve.  We can exhibit mercy to others though we do not always do it properly and perfectly. • Speech • We can speak and communicate.  This is an attribute we possess, but our communications are never perfect.   An attribute of God is his speech.  He said "let there be light" (Genesis 1:3), and it was so.  God always speaks truth, and it contains power.  Our speech is not always true, nor does it contain the same creative power as God's speech.

  16. Communicable Attributes of God--can be possessed by people (CARM.org) • Truthfulness • Truth is a quality where statements properly reflect actuality, but it is also a quality of character possessed by God.  We can be truthful, but our ability to be truthful is damaged in part because of our lack of all knowledge and also because of our sin. • Wisdom • People are capable of expressing wisdom, which is the proper use of knowledge.  But this is best done in light of scriptural revelation.  We can possess wisdom but not perfectly.  God, however, possesses wisdom perfectly and always makes the right decisions as well as the best ways to accomplish his decisions.

  17. What Can We Learn about Man from Genesis One? • 1. We (both male and female) are made in God’s image. • Appearance • Emotion • Character • Relational • 2. We are to fill the earth, subdue it, and have dominion over it. • 3. We were created good.

  18. Why is this important? • The goal for this class is for all the students to come away seeing the big picture of the Bible so that the Gospel makes sense. • In order for there to be the last Adam, there needed to a first Adam. • 1 Corinthians 15:45–49 (ESV) • 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

  19. Why is this important? • Romans 5:12–14 (ESV) • 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

  20. Bible Basics Intro and Lesson One

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