Sermon Tone Analysis

*Thomas** S. Myers*

 

*Genesis 1:24-27** – The Creation of Man*

 

            I want to ask you a question.

Is man created in the image of God, or is God created in the imagination of man?

Let me ask the question another way.

Did God make man or did man make God?

The evolutionist says that God is the imagination of man.

The evolutionist says man made God.

What is the right answer?

Both can not be right.

I want us to look closely at the creation of man.

There are those who say the Bible has scientific errors.

Science is constantly changing.

Scientific textbooks become outdated.

But the Bible has remained the same.

The Bible was not written as a scientific textbook.

But when the Bible speaks on science it is accurate.

Someone has well said, "The Bible was not written to tell us how the heavens go, but how to go to heaven."

You see the Bible was not written to teach science, it was written to teach us about Jesus Christ.

But when it speaks on scientific facts, the Bible is scientifically accurate.

For example:  You and I take it for granted that the earth is suspended in space upon nothing.

However, we have not always believed that.

For example:

 

The Egyptians used to believe that the earth was supported on 5 pillars.

The Greeks used to believe the earth was supported on the back of a giant called atlas.

The Hindus used to believe that the earth was supported on the back of a huge elephant.

And when the elephant walked it would cause earthquakes.

But here I am holding an ancient book called the Bible.

And I want us to see what the Bible says is supporting the earth.

*Job** 26:7*

*7** “He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.

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            Now how did Job know that? 

 

*2** Peter 1:21*

*/21 /**for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.**/  /** NASV*

 

            You and I also take it for granted that the earth is round.

But man hasn't always believed that.

It was not until the days of Columbus that we knew that the earth was round.

1492

 

            But turn to Isaiah 40:22

 

*Isaiah 40:22*

*22 It is He who sits above the vault of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

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            Now think with me for a moment.

The book of Isaiah was written 750 years before Jesus Christ was born.

It was Moses who under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit wrote the book of Genesis.

I want you to see what the Bible has to say about Moses.

Turn to Acts 7:22

 

*Acts 7:22*

*22** “And Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deed.

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            Moses studied at the University of Egypt and he knew the science and the medicine of the Egyptians.

Now let me give you some of the Egyptian science:

 

To prevent gray hair, get hold of the blood of a black cat, which has been boiled in water, and mix in the fat of a snake.

Then apply to your hair.

Here's what the Egyptians taught to prevent baldness.

When your hair falls out find the fat of a hippapontus, the fat of a crocodile, the fat of a cat and the fat of a snake.

To strengthen it, add the tooth of a donkey crushed in honey and apply that to your hair.

Now what is interesting is that Moses studied this.

But you will not find anything like that in the Bible.

You will not find in the Bible that the earth is flat, or you will not find in the Bible that the earth is supported by 5 pillars.

How come we don't find stuff like that in the Bible?

It is because the Bible is the inspired Word of God.

Moses wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Now lets look at what the Bible says about the creation of man.

*FIRST -- THE CREATION OF MAN.*

 

*Genesis 1:26-27*

*26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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*Genesis 2:7*

*7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

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            Someone is probably thinking, "Pastor, before you get started, can I ask you a question?

What about cavemen?

Where there cavemen?

Yes, there were cavemen and there are still cavemen.

Today you can still find people who live in caves.

In fact the Bible predicts that in the last days' people wil

 

Revelation 6:15

15 And the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountain; NASV

 

            No, no, no pastor, that is not what I meant.

Where there prehistoric cavemen?

I mean where there half-man, half-ape people?

No there were no half-man or half-ape people.

That is just in the movies and in the imagination of an artist.

For example:  the Ramapitecus man was declared to be an ape-man because the teeth that were found similar to a baboon.

And by the way, that was all that was found, just the teeth.

But years later a baboon in Ethiopia was discovered to have the same dental and jaw characteristics as the Ramapithecus man.

So the Ramapithecus man was thrown out.

Then in 1924, the Australopithecines man was found.

Its brain was only about 1~/3 as large as a man and stood only about 4 feet tall.

It was pointed out that this ape-man had many ape-like features of the skull, but the teeth of man.

Later is was found out that the bones were from an ape.

So the Australopithecines was thrown out.

Also during the 1920's the Peking man was found.

Fragments of skulls, jaws and teeth were found.

But later when a camp site was found it was discovered that the bones were the left over meal of an ancient tribe that human bones were mixed with the animal bones.

Then the Java Man was found.

The Java Man bones that were found were one large lege bone, a skull cap, and 3 teeth.

Thirty years later, the man who discovered the Java Man confessed on his death bed, that he also found human remains at the same site, and that he simply made the whole thing up.