“Dark to Light and Emptiness to Hospitable” 1/14/07

Genesis 1:3-13

“Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear” 1 Peter 3:15

Important Vocabulary

Theistic Evolution (EV)- God created the world, but then used EV as His process.

Progressive Creationism- God created the world over billions of years stepping in at certain times to introduce order. Follow a “Day-Age” theory. Room for fossils but includes death before sin and apelike creatures before man. Day Age fails.

SCIENCE NOT A HERMENEUTIC- Science books change constantly

NT supports Creation: Mark 10:6; 13:19; John 1:3; Acts 4:24; Acts 14:15; Acts 17:26

www.AnswersInGenesis.org (2 slides)

God begins to form the emptiness to be suited for mankind.

POINT 1- Day One describes the division of darkness and LIGHT

Proverbs 8:27, “When He drew a circle on the face of the deep”

A. By His omnipotent power, He spoke Light into existence.

B. This light was good and was divided from the darkness.

C. God named the light Day and the darkness He named Night.

D. A progression of evening and morning shows a 24 hour period.

The Hebrews word for day (yom) always refers to 24 hour day when with number.

“For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.” Exodus 20:11

“For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” 2 Corinthians 4:6

POINT 2- Day Two describes the division of the waters from the WATERS

A. God commanded the waters to divide from waters above from those below.

B. God named the expanse Heavens.

C. The evening and morning bring to the end day 2.

Preaching Point- God speaks and it is! God never fails! The Majesty of God is shown!

When were the angels created? Let’s see Job 38:4-9 and Psalm 104:1-9.

POINT 3- Day Three describes the division of the waters from the LAND

A. God commanded the seas to go to one place and for the land to appear.

B. God created shrubs and trees which reproduce after their kind. DNA.

C. God saw that it was doubly good and thus ended day 3.

Did God create the world and then walk away? What if God was to turn Himself off from the World? The answer is in Acts 17:28 and Colossians 1:16-17.

Let’s acknowledge God as our Creator, Sustainer, Savior, and Daddy (Abba).

Robert E. Smith, a member of the western Missouri affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union whom you would know to be no friend of Scripture, says this, and I quote, "For the past five years I have closely followed creationist literature and have attended lectures and debates on related issues. Based solely on the scientific arguments pro and con, I have been forced to conclude that scientific creationism is not only a viable theory but that it has achieved parody, if not superiority over the normative theory of biological evolution. That this should now be the case is somewhat surprising, particularly in view of what most of us were taught in primary ad secondary school." He goes on, "In practical terms, the past decade of intense activity by scientific creationists has left most evolutionist professors unwilling to debate the creationist professors. Too many of the evolutionists have been publicly humiliated in such debates by their own lack of erudition and by the weakness of their theory," end quote. Source: http://www.gty.org/resources.php?section=transcripts&aid=215986