The Whole Creation Story – Part 1
Let’s look at the NORMAL/USUAL Story of Creation
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
This is a “generic” and “broad” statement that covers ALL of the creation story.
All of what follows in Genesis 1 and 2 is just the details of verse 1.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
This is how God “started everything”. He made a “primordial soup”. It was a whole bunch of unformed stuff. And God was hovering over it, thinking about what to do next.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
“Light” appeared for the very first time – ever. There was no such thing as light before this. There was only darkness because light had never existed before.
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Day 1 over. There is tremendous debate here.
Was this 1st day 24 hours or was it 1000 years or was it possibly billions of years?
One has to answer the “evolution” crowd. They have a LOT of good points, you know?
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Genesis 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
The usual belief about this is that the “firmament” is the Earth’s “atmosphere.
God made an atmosphere to put the Earth in.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Did this take 24 hours or a million years?
Of course, this is backward concerning evolution. The Earth couldn’t have come before the sun, how could photosynthesis have worked its magic??
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Genesis 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Genesis 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
This must have taken billions of years. There is plenty of evidence. The absolutely could not have happened in 24 hours. The 1st billionth of a second.
Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Genesis 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Conservatives believe God did all of this, but they can’t explain evolution away.
Now it gets interesting. God made man.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
All done. God rests.
…
Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
You know the rest, right?
Where did the serpent come from?
Everyone assumes that was Satan. Was it?
If so, where did he come from? When was he born? Why was he a serpent? Why not a lion? Why not a monkey? Why not an American Eagle?
Why did he do what he did?
Well, I could ask hundreds of other questions to which most people have no answer.
This is why the “churched” people are turning away from their parents’ religions in droves.
They are turning to Materialism, Marilyn Manson, Politics, Television and Professors.
R-e-m-e-m-b-e-r “Profess”ors
They are turning against it because THEY themselves do not UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEIR PARENTS do not UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEIR PASTORS do not UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEIR “BIBLE TRANSLATORS” do not UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEIR “BIBLES” do not even UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEY ASK QUESTIONS.
They are turning against it because THEY GET NO ANSWERS.
They can’t ANSWER because they don’t UNDERSTAND.
Daniel 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
The Elect are “them of understanding”.
The LOST are those without any understanding…
1Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
2Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
But some of the Elect have a very limited, very small understanding. Like babies…
Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we [in this case I] have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are [I hope you are not] dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers [they’ve been saved a long time], ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one [not some, EVERY] that useth milk [How can you KNOW if someone is a “milker”?] is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
This is a HUGE reason people are leaving churches in masses. They get nothing but MILK. (David v Goliath) They don’t get any MEAT. They remain babies.
Then when their children ask “meaty” questions, they say “goo-goo, gaa-gaa, me have yucky diappy.“ They are stinky-whiney-poopy babies. Kids run away.
1Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
They don’t DESIRE the SINCERE milk of the word.
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
They don’t understand even the very basics.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance
Jul 26 2022
The Whole Creation Story – Part 1
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The Whole Creation Story – Part 1
The Whole Creation Story – Part 1
Let’s look at the NORMAL/USUAL Story of Creation
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
This is a “generic” and “broad” statement that covers ALL of the creation story.
All of what follows in Genesis 1 and 2 is just the details of verse 1.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
This is how God “started everything”. He made a “primordial soup”. It was a whole bunch of unformed stuff. And God was hovering over it, thinking about what to do next.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
“Light” appeared for the very first time – ever. There was no such thing as light before this. There was only darkness because light had never existed before.
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Day 1 over. There is tremendous debate here.
Was this 1st day 24 hours or was it 1000 years or was it possibly billions of years?
One has to answer the “evolution” crowd. They have a LOT of good points, you know?
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Genesis 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
The usual belief about this is that the “firmament” is the Earth’s “atmosphere.
God made an atmosphere to put the Earth in.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Did this take 24 hours or a million years?
Of course, this is backward concerning evolution. The Earth couldn’t have come before the sun, how could photosynthesis have worked its magic??
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Genesis 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Genesis 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
This must have taken billions of years. There is plenty of evidence. The absolutely could not have happened in 24 hours. The 1st billionth of a second.
Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Genesis 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Conservatives believe God did all of this, but they can’t explain evolution away.
Now it gets interesting. God made man.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
All done. God rests.
…
Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
You know the rest, right?
Where did the serpent come from?
Everyone assumes that was Satan. Was it?
If so, where did he come from? When was he born? Why was he a serpent? Why not a lion? Why not a monkey? Why not an American Eagle?
Why did he do what he did?
Well, I could ask hundreds of other questions to which most people have no answer.
This is why the “churched” people are turning away from their parents’ religions in droves.
They are turning to Materialism, Marilyn Manson, Politics, Television and Professors.
R-e-m-e-m-b-e-r “Profess”ors
They are turning against it because THEY themselves do not UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEIR PARENTS do not UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEIR PASTORS do not UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEIR “BIBLE TRANSLATORS” do not UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEIR “BIBLES” do not even UNDERSTAND what they “believe”.
They are turning against it because THEY ASK QUESTIONS.
They are turning against it because THEY GET NO ANSWERS.
They can’t ANSWER because they don’t UNDERSTAND.
Daniel 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
The Elect are “them of understanding”.
The LOST are those without any understanding…
1Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
2Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
But some of the Elect have a very limited, very small understanding. Like babies…
Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we [in this case I] have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are [I hope you are not] dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers [they’ve been saved a long time], ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one [not some, EVERY] that useth milk [How can you KNOW if someone is a “milker”?] is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
This is a HUGE reason people are leaving churches in masses. They get nothing but MILK. (David v Goliath) They don’t get any MEAT. They remain babies.
Then when their children ask “meaty” questions, they say “goo-goo, gaa-gaa, me have yucky diappy.“ They are stinky-whiney-poopy babies. Kids run away.
1Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
They don’t DESIRE the SINCERE milk of the word.
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
They don’t understand even the very basics.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance
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