Transcript Lesson 4 for January 26, 2013 We find two apparently different creation stories in Genesis 1:1 to 2:3 and Genesis 2:4-25. If we carefully.

Lesson 4 for January 26, 2013
We find two apparently
different creation
stories in Genesis 1:1 to
2:3 and Genesis 2:4-25.
If we carefully study
those stories we may
find out that the first
one is a general story of
the creation of the
world; the second one
explains some details
about the creation of
man.
The second story
explains that
everything God created
(heaven, earth,
vegetables, animals
and even Sabbath) was
created for man. We
were created to live
forever joyful in
fellowship with God
and our neighbors.
Genesis 2:4-6 summarizes the first 5 days of Creation. It emphasizes the creation of
plants and the atmospheric conditions that made life on Earth possible.
Genesis 2:7-25 add details about the sixth day of Creation that were not told in the
first story.
God creates
Adam (Gn. 2:7)
He creates and
furnishes a
home for
Adam, the
garden of Eden
(Gn. 2:8-15)
He teaches
Adam the basic
moral laws that
will rule his life
(Gn. 2:16-17)
He creates
animals to live
with man
(Gn. 2:18-20)
He creates the
woman. Adam
and Eve
become “one
flesh”
(Gn. 2:21-25)
Genesis 2:4-25 details the story in Genesis 1, “So God created man in His own image; in
the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Gn. 1:27)
We find direct and oblique references to the story of Creation in the entire Bible.
The biblical authors considered that story to be true and literal. They were based on it when building
greater arguments.
Let’s study some references of creation throughout the entire Bible. We’ll order them by each day of
Creation.
“The world and all its fullness, You have founded them” (Psalm 89:11)
“Thus says God the Lord, Who created the
heavens and stretched them out” (Is. 42:5)
“I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who
stretches out the heavens all alone, Who
spreads abroad the earth by Myself” (Is. 44:24)
“For thus says the Lord, Who created the
heavens, Who is God, Who formed the
earth and made it, Who has established
it, Who did not create it in vain, Who
formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord,
and there is no other.”” (Is. 45:18)
“He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His
wisdom, and stretched out the heaven by His understanding” (Jer. 51:15)
“Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power
and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You” (Jer. 32:17)
“I fear the Lord, the God of
heaven, who made the sea
and the dry land” (Jon. 1:9)
“All things were made
through Him, and
without Him nothing
was made that was
made” (John 1:3)
“For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not
been since the beginning of the creation which God created
until this time” (Mr. 13:19)
“who created heaven and the things that
are in it, the earth and the things that are in
it, and the sea and the things that are in it”
(Rev. 10:6)
“God, who
made the
world and
everything
in it” (Acts
17:24)
“You created all things, and by
Your will they exist and were
created” (Rev. 4:11)
“worship Him who made heaven and earth,
the sea and springs of water” (Rev. 14:7)
GENESIS 1:1-2
“Where were you
when I laid the
foundations of the
earth?” (Job 38:4)
“You who laid the foundations of the earth, so
that it should not be moved forever, You covered
it with the deep as with a garment; the waters
stood above the mountains” (Psalm 104:5-6)
“the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth” (Zec. 12:1)
“by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing
out of water and in the water” (2P. 3:5)
Genesis 1:3-5
“Where is the way to the dwelling of light?
And darkness, where is its place?” (Job
38:19)
“He who makes the morning darkness, Who
treads the high places of the earth—the Lord
God of hosts is His name” (Am. 4:13)
“Who cover Yourself with light as
with a garment” (Psalm 104:2)
“God who commanded light to shine
out of darkness” (2Co. 4:6)
Genesis 1:6-8
“Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain” (Psalm 104:2)
“He who… creates the wind… The Lord
God of hosts is His name” (Am. 4:13)
“You have set all the borders of the earth” (Psalm 74:17)
“At Your rebuke they [the waters]
Genesis 1:9-13
fled; at the voice of Your thunder they
“When I fixed My limit for it [the
sea], and set bars and doors; When hastened away. They went up over
I said, ‘This far you may come, but the mountains; they went down into
the valleys, to the place which You
no farther, and here your proud
waves must stop!’” (Job 38:10-11) founded for them. You have set a
boundary that they may not pass
over, that they may not return to
cover the earth” (Psalm 104:7-9)
“He causes the grass to grow for
the cattle, and vegetation for the
service of man” (Psalm 104:14)
“For He has founded it [the dry land]
upon the seas, and established it
upon the waters” (Psalm 24:2)
“He who forms mountains… The Lord
God of hosts is His name” (Am. 4:13)
“Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
and caused the dawn to know its place?” (Job 38:12)
THE FOURTH DAY
Genesis 1:14-19
“When I consider Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers, the
moon and the stars, which You
have ordained” (Psalm 8:3)
“By the word of the Lord the heavens
were made, and all the host of them by
the breath of His mouth” (Psalm 33:6)
“The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and the sun…
You have made summer and winter”
(Psalm 74:16-17)
“I—My hands—stretched out the heavens, and
all their host I have commanded” (Is. 45:12)
“He appointed the
moon for seasons;
the sun knows its
going down”
(Psalm 104:19)
Genesis 1:20-23
“There is that Leviathan
which You have made to
play there [in the sea]”
(Psalm 104:26)
Genesis 1:24-31
Genesis 2:7-25
“You have made him [man] to have dominion over the
works of Your hands; You have put all things under his
feet” (Psalm 8:6)
“I have made the earth, and
created man on it” (Is. 45:12)
“I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My
great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed
proper to Me” (Jer. 27:5)
“And He answered and said to them, “Have
you not read that He who made them at the
beginning ‘made them male and female,’
and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave
his father and mother and be joined to his
wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?”
(Mt. 19:4-5)
“For “the two,” He says, “shall
become one flesh.”” (1Co. 6:16)
“For this reason a man shall leave his father
and mother and be joined to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh” (Eph. 5:31)
“the Lord… forms the
spirit of man within him”
(Zec. 12:1)
“He has made from
one blood every
nation of men”
(Acts 17:26)
“The first man Adam became a
living being” (1Co. 15:45)
“men, who have been made in the
similitude of God” (James 3:9)
THE SEVENTH DAY
Genesis 2:1-3
“And He said to them, “The
Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the
Sabbath”” (Mr. 2:27)
“For He has spoken in a certain place of
the seventh day in this way: “And God
rested on the seventh day from all His
works”” (Heb. 4:4)
Understanding our origins is so important that God had it placed as the
first subject in the Bible, and the message of the Bible is based on the
historicity of the Creation account.
Think through the implications
of our origins and why getting
them right is so important to
our understanding of who we
are, why we are here, and what
we can hope for in a world that,
in and of itself, offers no hope
at all.
The wonders of creation help
us in trusting the amazing love
and power of God.