Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro:

1. Early State

This opening clause sets the stage for God’s marvelous creation.

A. “The earth was uninhabited and desolate”

As it existed, the world was uninhabitable and yet,

God’s design for the world was that it should be inhabited.

Crucial to the view of creation is the question of purpose, the relationship of the existence of created beings to the Creator and the processes involved.

B. “Darkness was upon the face of the deep”

The reference (deep) is not to the oceans as we know them today, but to the primeval sea of which the world was thought to consist.

The deep has no power to shape or fill the earth since it lies lifeless, passive and subject to the control of God.

Many cultures include the start as a void ocean.

C. “The Spirit of God hovered over the waters”

These words confirm the divine authority and control over nature.

All trinity was present as we will point out in coming weeks.

The 6 Days of Creation

A. The time debate:

The language of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 are technically precise and linguistically clear.

Any reader would understand that the author of those pages intended to convey a normal six-day creation, involving God’s supernatural intervention both to create (something from nothing) and to make and shape (something basic into something more complex).

The language of Genesis 1 appears to have been crafted so that no reader would mistake the word use for anything other than an ordinary 24-hour day.

The light portion is named “day,” and the dark portion is named “night.”

Then the “evening and the morning” is Day 1, Day 2, etc.

The linguistic formula is repeated for each of the six days, a strange emphasis if the words were to be taken as allegorical or analogous to something other than a day-night cycle.

Other times God referenced 6 days of creation:

Why is it important?

If you can’t believe God created the earth and all that is in it as Moses said, then you can’t believe His words.

B. The Pattern

In the first three days, GOD creates form, in the last three, he fills the void.

Triads of Creation

The first three days describe stationary components in the world;

the second triad records the creation of the mobile elements, including the sun, moon and stars which daily move across the firmament.

The first three acts of creation have the expressed purpose of separating contrasting spheres such as day and night, upper and lower waters, or dry land and the seas, whereas the corresponding created elements in the second triad fill and rule over those spheres for which they have been prepared.

Even Science with their best guess from the evidence tends to follow the same pattern of formation of universe, solar system, and life

Creating the Form

Day 1 Light and Dark

Day 2 Atmosphere and Water

Day 3 Sea, Land, & Vegetation

Filling the Void

Day 4: Sun, Moon, Stars

Celestial bodies

Signs and Seasons

To give light

Day 5 Sea creatures, Birds

Day 6 Livestock and Man

The Sabbath Rest

God set a pattern, 6 days of work, 1 day of rest.

He later added this into the law

(10 commandments),

References:

https://www.icr.org/creation-recent/

http://www.directionjournal.org/6/3/creation-hermeneutical-study-in-genesis.html