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I The Beginning (Faith
h) (09/23/122) Biblical D
Discussion
What iss your view on
n creation?
What arre some of thee stories on crreation?
Describbe a time when
n you were trruck with awee and wonder by some aspeect of the universe?
What w
were your thou
ughts about God
G at that mo
oment?
How didd the experien
nce affect you
ur view of lifee, your set off priorities, annd God?
What w
was the conditions of the eaarth when it was
w first createed?
What roole did the Sp
prit play in creeation?
What caategories of creatures weree brought into
o being after the earth was formed?
What diid God say to
o the animals after
a
He creatted them?
What prrivileges did Adam
A
and Ev
ve have with respect
r
to Creeation?
How haas believing th
hat God created everything
g shaped yourr perspective on the meaninng of the worrd and of life??
Is there anything thatt is not “good
d” in God’s crreation?
In whatt ways have you seen God demonstrate His
H goodnesss and love in H
His creation?
What arre you speakin
ng into existeence?
The Beginning (Gen
nesis 1)
1 In thee beginning God
G created the heavens and
d the earth. 2 Now
N the earthh was formlesss and empty, darkness waas over the surface
of the ddeep, and the Spirit
S
of God was hovering
g over the waaters. 3 And G od said, “Let there be lighht,” and there w
was light. 4 God
G
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saw thatt the light waas good, and he
h separated th
he light from the darkness . God calledd the light “daay,” and the ddarkness he caalled
“night.”” And there was
w evening, and
a there was morning—th
he first day. 6 A
And God saidd, “Let there bbe a vault bettween the watters
7
to separrate water from
m water.” So God made the
t vault and separated thee water underr the vault from
m the water aabove it. And it
was so. 8 God called the vault “sky
y.” And theree was evening
g, and there w
was morning—
—the second dday. 9 And Good said, “Let the
t
water unnder the sky be
b gathered to
o one place, and
a let dry gro
ound appear.”” And it was sso. 10 God callled the dry grround “land,”” and
the gathhered waters he
h called “seaas.” And God saw that it was
w good. 11 Thhen God saidd, “Let the lannd produce vegetation: seed
dbearing plants and trees on the lan
nd that bear frruit with seed
d in it, accordiing to their vaarious kinds.”” And it was sso. 12 The land
d
produceed vegetation:: plants bearin
ng seed accorrding to their kinds and tre es bearing fruuit with seed in it accordinng to their kinds.
And Good saw that it was good. 13 And
A there waas evening, an
nd there was m
morning—thee third day. 144 And God saiid, “Let there be
lights inn the vault of the sky to sep
parate the day
y from the nig
ght, and let thhem serve as ssigns to mark sacred times, and days and
years, 155 and let them
m be lights in the
t vault of th
he sky to givee light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 G
God made two great lights—
—the
greater light to goverrn the day and
d the lesser lig
ght to govern
n the night. Hee also made thhe stars. 17 Good set them inn the vault of the
sky to ggive light on the
t earth, 18 to
o govern the day
d and the niight, and to seeparate light ffrom darknesss. And God saaw that it wass
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good. And there was evening, and there was morning—th
he fourth day. 20 And God ssaid, “Let the water teem w
with living
creaturees, and let bird
ds fly above the
t earth acro
oss the vault of
o the sky.” 21 So God creatted the great ccreatures of thhe sea and ev
very
living thhing with whiich the water teems and that moves about in it, accorrding to their kinds, and evvery winged bbird according
g to
its kind. And God saaw that it was good. 22 God blessed them
m and said, “B
Be fruitful andd increase in nnumber and ffill the water in
i the
seas, annd let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there waas evening, annd there was morning—thhe fifth day. 244 And God saiid,
“Let thee land produce living creattures accordin
ng to their kin
nds: the livesttock, the creattures that movve along the gground, and th
he
wild aniimals, each acccording to itts kind.” And it was so. 25 God
G made thee wild animalls according too their kinds, the livestock
k
accordinng to their kin
nds, and all th
he creatures th
hat move alon
ng the groundd according too their kinds. And God saw
w that it was good.
g
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Then God said, “Let us make mankind
m
in ourr image, in ou
ur likeness, soo that they maay rule over thhe fish in the sea and the birds
b
in the skky, over the liivestock and all the wild an
nimals,[a] and
d over all the ccreatures thatt move along the ground.” 27 So God creeated
mankind in his own image,
i
in the image of God
d he created them;
t
male annd female he created them
m. 28 God blesssed them and said
to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill
fi the earth an
nd subdue it. Rule over thee fish in the ssea and the birrds in the sky
y and
over eveery living creeature that mo
oves on the grround.” 29 Theen God said, ““I give you evvery seed-beaaring plant onn the face of th
he
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whole eearth and everry tree that haas fruit with seeed in it. They will be youurs for food. And to all thhe beasts of thhe earth and all
a
the birdds in the sky and
a all the creeatures that move
m
along thee ground—evverything that has the breatth of life in it—
—I give every
y
green pllant for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw
w all that he had
h made, andd it was very good. And thhere was evenning, and there
was moorning—the siixth day.