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INTRO:

We have two overarching views of teh origin of life on earth:

God created us

It is all a cosmic accident brought about through random forces in evolution.

Evolution is not a reasonable explanation for the universe or life on earth in any sense whatsoever.

It is scientifically impossible

it is biblically rejected.

We looked closely at the issue of Genesis 1 in creation.

We find no evidence of evolution whatsoever in the text of the Scripture, nor is there any indication, by any kind of reasonable science that any form of evolution, from species to species could at all take place.

In spite of that:

· The British writer by the name of Andy Macintosh has written a book called, Genesis for Today and in it, he says this, "In recent years, a somewhat strange trend has developed in Christian circles.

While some secular authors have begun to doubt the traditional evolutionary thinking of Darwin, Huxley and others who first made popular such views, some evangelical Christians have been developing the concept that God used evolution to make the world, the view, which is termed theistic evolution.

Such an idea is, of course, by no means new but it now becoming more fashionable among evangelicals who supposedly hold to the infallibility of Scripture, as well as to liberals who do not.

Some notable recent books by evangelical writers doubting the straightforward creationist position on Genesis are..." and he names Master Planby Roy Clements.

The Ethics and religious liberty Committee of the SBC:

But much can and should be said.

The fact that human beings are created in God’s image shapes the Christian worldview and affects how we see God, the world and one another.

It informs how we understand the rest of the Bible’s story and provides a theological foundation for ethics and engagement.

In short, a proper understanding of the image of God should animate everything we do, ERLC

So what we're going to find in chapter two is the details of the creation of man.

1.

The creation of man

Different method than the rest of creation.

How did God bring forth the other kinds of life?

“Let there be..”

What was unique about the creation of mankind?

He formed us from the dust

He breathed life into us

2. The location of man in the Garden of Eden

This is a major consideration that needs to be taken into account.

The worldwide, catastrophic Flood of Noah’s day would have destroyed the surface of the earth.

If most of the sedimentary strata over the earth’s surface (many thousands of feet thick in places) is the result of this global catastrophe as creationists believe, then we would have no idea where the Garden of Eden was originally located—the earth’s surface totally changed as a result of the Flood.

Not only this, but underneath the region where the present Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are located there exists hundreds of feet of sedimentary strata—a significant amount of which is fossiliferous.

Such fossil-bearing strata had to be laid down at the time of the Flood.

Therefore, no one can logically suggest that the area where the present Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are today is the location of the Garden of Eden, for this area is sitting on Flood strata containing billions of dead things (fossils).

The perfect Garden of Eden can’t be sitting on billions of dead things before sin entered the world!

This begs the question: Why is there a Tigris and Euphrates today?

Many geographic areas have similar names US & Eng:

Thames in Conececticut

Severn river in Maryland

Trent RIver in North Carolinea

Australia and England have many names of towns in common

Noah and his sons came out the ark in the Middle East and began using names they were used to before the flood.

Garden of Eden

Eden was good, but not fully glorious

Abundant but wasn’t yet expansive

Completely good but not completely secure

Rhythm of work and rest, but not unending rest

3. The vocation of man.

Work and Purpose existed before the fall.

Adam was put in the Garden to work it and keep it.

To glorify God in the Garden

Then, as well as now, God displayed His grace and glory through Adam

Adam named creatures

Jewish teachings:

Lest one think that this was an easy and simple endeavor, in the midrash our sages expound, “…brought each creature before the angels and asked them, ‘This creature, what is its name?’

But they did not know.

Then He brought the creatures before Adam and asked him, ‘This creature, what is its name?’

To which Adam responded, ‘This is shor[Hebrew for ox], this is chamor [donkey]...’4

This of course brings us to the question of why?

What was so special about naming the animals that only man could do it?

Every single creation, even a single blade of grass, has its own unique energy source in the spiritual realms.

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4. The probation of man,

What he was not to do

At that time there was only 1 commandment, what was it?>

don’t eat the fruit of the tree

It doesn’t matter if it is a fruit we now have or a special tree.

In eating it, thus rebelling and sinning, Adam and Eve would know good from evil

tragically, once done, it could not be undone.

5.

The relation of man

when God gave him woman.

Adam was incomplete alone.

No animal was his equal and compatible.

God made Eve

unique like Adam

handmade by God

God’s purpose: a family

two were to become one

Husband and wife.

6.

The innocence of Man

Because they were pure and before sin, lust was not an issue.

They lived in complete harmony with GOD and had no shame for any reason.

Conclusion: