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Intro/Welcome
Good morning
Series
Week 3 of “This I Believe”
What is the Bible?
God’s word written down to us and for us
Who is God?
God was a Trinitarian personal God who is both like us and unlike us.
What is the Story of Scripture?
What is the Bible about?
It answers the “worldview’ questions
Where we came from?
Why we are here?
What happens after we die?
Plan
Creation | Fall | Redemption | Restoration
We will only talk in depth about first two today
Pray
Creation
Genesis 1:1 (CSB)
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God is creator.
God created Good
All that God created was Good
Tov: good, delightful, beautiful, pleasing
Six times while God is creating it says:
“And God saw that it was good”
The only time he didn’t was after day 2, which was Monday
indicating that there has never been anything good about Monday.
Twice onTuesday
b/c it is doubly good that Monday is over.
After God is done creating we read:
Genesis 1:31 (CSB)
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed.
Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.
Hebrew: Good - Good
This means that all of Creation is/was Good.
Human Beings
Imago Dei
Humans were created in the image of God
Genesis 1:26–27 (CSB)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.
They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.
Implications of the Imago Dei
We are both Like and Unlike God
Created for Relationship
We can have a relationship with God unlike everything else in all creation.
Dignity before Depravity
This means that:
at the deepest level of human existence
Human beings are good in that they bear the image of a good God
This means that before depravity there is dignity.
Dignity before Depravity
Created with Design
Genesis 1:27 (CSB)
27 So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.
We image God as both male and female
Created with Purpose
Genesis 1:28 (CSB)
28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.
Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
The Whole Earth and all of Creation is ours to steward
There are Five things we are to do:
Be Fruitful — bring life, good things
Multiply — reproduce,
Fill the earth — spread out
Subdue — cultivate, make it yours, shape it
Rule — lead, have authority
There are ways that we are to be like God
as ‘little gods’ — image bearers
we are to create, rule, shape, multiply just as he did.
Implications of Good Creation
Something is Wrong
It means that something has gone wrong and it wasn’t God.
Our world is not totally good, there is much that is wrong and broken.
Nostalgic Imprints
There is a kind of nostalgic imprint on our souls
It means we are all trying to back to Eden / Back to the Good Creation
We live with a longing for when things were better
We long to ‘walk with God in the cool of the day’
Genesis 3:8 (CSB)
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Transition
Every belief system has to answer this question:
What is wrong with the World?
Some deny it
Some ignore it
All try to escape it
But we can’t escape ourselves which is where the problem lies.
The Bible’s answer.
The Fall
The Origin of Evil: Satan and Demons
Evil enters the world.
Genesis 3:1 (CSB)
1 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Revelation 12:7–9 (CSB)
7 Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon.
The dragon and his angels also fought, 8 but he could not prevail, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer.
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