Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro:

AG:

TS: Where we have been so far:

God Is- Father, Son and Holy Spirit are 3 in one.

He is the supreme ruler of all

God spoke in HIS word

He inspired it, He illuminates it.

It is the inerrant word of God and teaches all we need to believe and how we need to live.

Remember, although the Bible’s purpose is to reveal God and the story of salvation, everything the Bible says is true.

Tonight, we begin looking at God Does.

Article 3 is titled creation.

It explores several themes in the natural universe.

Creation

Angels

Humanity

Marriage

RS: This is where the beliefs we have start to directly impact the choices we make.

III.

Creation

A. The World–God created all things for His own pleasure and glory, as revealed in the biblical account of creation (; ; , ; ).

B. The Angels–God created an innumerable host of spirit beings called angels.

Holy angels worship God and execute His will; while fallen angels serve Satan, seeking to hinder God’s purposes (; , ; , : ; ).

C. Man—As the crowning work of His creation, God created humankind (male and female) in His own image (; ; ).

Consequently, every person from conception is of inherent dignity and worth and merits the respect of all other persons (; ; ; ; ).

D. Marriage—God created marriage (; ).

Jesus Christ declared the Creator’s intention for marriage to be the inseparable and exclusive union between a male and female (i.e. a natural man and a natural woman) (; ; ).

Marriage testifies of the union between Christ and the church ().

The World

A. The World–God created all things for His own pleasure and glory, as revealed in the biblical account of creation (; ; , ; ).

God Created the heavens and the earth

Creation:

Here we see the origin of the universe.

The ultimate question is how did we get here?”.

God begins the Bible by telling us.

It began in the mind of God and was spoken into existence.

“Let there be”

Creation account records 6 Days

This is also the first big debate of the Bible

Three views:

a.

Those who reject the inerrancy and infallibility of GOD’s word see this is a fable, a creation myth.

Big Bang and evolution are their answer.

Big Bang- there was an extremely dense particle of matter that contained all of the matter in the universe.

Suddenly, BANG, it blew up and began the chaos we see as the universe.

Evolution

life happened somehow

small adaptations over time caused that first primitive life to mutate and evolve into the complex and diverse array of life we see today.

It is an ongoing process

It takes extremely long periods of time.

They begin with the assumption, “There is no God.”

They develop theories and hunt down evidence to explain all they can find to back that assumption.

Though they claim the intellectual high ground, what does say about the reality of their condition?

b.

Theistic evolutionists

Those who accept evolution as God’s mechanism in creation.

They try to accept the fruit of the rotten tree discussed above.

They see the “evidence” of evolution, and take it over the word of God.

They interpret the phrase, “let there be” to mean God directed the changes which took millions of years to carry out in minute increments.

c.

Biblical Creationists

Take the word of God at face value

God spoke and BANG the universe was made.

Why does it matter?

1st and foremost, God said it!

https://answersingenesis.org/why-does-creation-matter/

2nd the evidence:

Father, Son and Holy Spirit were all involved in creation and continue to hold the universe together.

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I. The Universe and the Solar System Were Suddenly Created.

The First Law of Thermodynamics states that the total quantity of matter and energy in the universe is constant.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that matter and energy always tend to change from complex and ordered states to disordered states.

Therefore the universe could not have created itself, but could not have existed forever, or it would have run down long ago.

Thus the universe, including matter and energy, apparently must have been created.

II.

Life Was Suddenly Created.

Life appears abruptly and in complex forms in the fossil record,2 and gaps appear systematically in the fossil record between various living kinds.3

These facts indicate that basic kinds of plants and animals were created.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that things tend to go from order to disorder (entropy tends to increase) unless added energy is directed by a conversion mechanism (such as photosynthesis), whether a system is open or closed.

Thus simple molecules and complex protein, DNA, and RNA molecules seemingly could not have evolved spontaneously and naturalistically into a living cell;4 such cells apparently were created.

III.

All Present Living Kinds of Animals and Plants Have Remained Fixed Since Creation, Other than Extinctions, and Genetic Variation in Originally Created Kinds Has Only Occurred within Narrow Limits.

Systematic gaps occur between kinds in the fossil record.6 None of the intermediate fossils that would be expected on the basis of the evolution model have been found between single celled organisms and invertebrates, between invertebrates and vertebrates, between fish and amphibians, between amphibians and reptiles, between reptiles and birds or mammals, or between "lower" mammals and primates.7

While evolutionists might assume that these intermediate forms existed at one time, none of the hundreds of millions of fossils found so far provide the missing links.

IV.

The Earth's Geologic Features Were Fashioned Largely by Rapid, Catastrophic Processes that Affected the Earth on a Global and Regional Scale (Catastrophism).

Catastrophic events have characterized the earth's history.

Huge floods, massive asteroid collisions, large volcanic eruptions, devastating landslides, and intense earthquakes have left their marks on the earth.

Catastrophic events appear to explain the formation of mountain ranges, deposition of thick sequences of sedimentary rocks with fossils, initiation of the glacial age, and extinction of dinosaurs and other animals.

Catastrophism (catastrophic changes), rather than uniformitarianism (gradual changes), appears to be the best interpretation of a major portion of the earth's geology.

Geologic data reflect catastrophic flooding.

Evidences of rapid catastrophic water deposition include fossilized tree trunks that penetrate numerous sedimentary layers (such as at Joggins, Nova Scotia), widespread pebble and boulder layers (such as the Shinarump Conglomerate of the southwestern United States), fossilized logs in a single layer covering extensive areas (such as Petrified Forest National Park), and whole closed clams that were buried alive in mass graveyards in extensive sedimentary layers (such as at Glen Rose, Texas).

Uniform processes such as normal river sedimentation, small volcanoes, slow erosion, and small earthquakes appear insufficient to explain large portions of the geologic record.

Even the conventional uniformitarian geologists are beginning to yield to evidences of rapid and catastrophic processes.19

V.

The Inception of the Earth and of Living Kinds May Have Been Relatively Recent.

Radiometric dating methods (such as the uranium-lead and potassium-argon methods) depend on three assumptions:

(a) that no decay product (lead or argon) was present initially or that the initial quantities can be accurately estimated,

(b) that the decay system was closed through the years (so that radioactive material or product did not move in or out of the rock), and

(c) that the decay rate was constant over time.20

Each of these assumptions may be questionable: