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GENESIS
LESSON #03
INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 1 CREATION THEORIES
v MEMORY VERSE: PSALMS 148:5
v CREATIONISM:
Ø BASIC ASSUMPTIONS — ALL CREATION THEORIESARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING ASSUMPTIONS:
§ THERE IS AN ALL POWERFULGOD WHO EXISTS OUTSIDE OF OUR UNIVERSE AND OUTSIDE OF OUR TIME DIMENSION.
§ THIS GOD CREATED EVERYTHINGTHAT EXISTS IN OUR UNIVERSE AT A SPECIFIC TIME IN THE UNKNOWN DISTANT PAST.
Ø THE FLOOD GEOLOGY THEORY OF CREATION:
§ GOD CREATED THE WORLD IN 6LITERAL DAYS.
§ THE EARTH IS ONLY ABOUT6-10,000 YEARS OLD.
¨ THIS NUMBER IS BASED ON THE GENEALOGIES INTHE BIBLE AND ON CREATION SCIENCE RESEARCH (LA JOLLA, CA)
§ THE SCIENTIFIC MEANS OFMEASURING TIME TO BILLIONS OF YEARS FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE EARTH IS NOT ACCURATE.
· THE RATE OF NATURAL PROCESSESUSED IN DATING TECHNIQUES TODAY WERE EITHER INTERRUPTED AT THE TIME OF THE WORLD-WIDEFLOOD, OR THEY WERE DIFFERENT BEFORE THE FLOOD THAN AFTER THE FLOOD. (IN OTHER WORDS, THECLOCK EITHER STOPPED, OR WAS RE-SET.)
§ DINOSAURS EXISTED DURINGTHE TIME OF ADAM AND BECAME EXTINCT GRADUALLY AFTER THE FLOOD.
· FOSSIL EVIDENCE HAS BEEN OBSERVEDWHERE A DINOSAUR TRACK AND A MAN’S FOOTPRINT ARE SUPERIMPOSED ON EACH OTHER INDICATINGTHEY PROBABLY LIVED AT THE SAME TIME BUT MOSTLY THEY LIVED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THEWORLD.
§ FOSSIL MEN ARE ALL RELATEDTO MODERN MAN AND DESCENDANTS OF ADAM. BUT FOSSIL MEN WERE NOT MAN-APES.
§ BIBLICAL AND SCIENTIFICEVIDENCE:
· GEN 7:11 A DISRUPTIVE WORLD-WIDECATACLYSMIC EVENT.
¨ MODERN SCIENTIFIC DATING METHODS ARE NOTRELIABLE BEFORE THE FLOOD OF 6,000 YEARS AGO.
· DEATH WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO MANAND ANIMALS BY ADAMS SIN. (1COR 15:21-22 ROM5:14)
Ø THE DAY AGE THEORY OF CREATION:
§ THE SIX DAYS OF CREATIONCORRESPOND TO THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF YEARS CORRESPONDING TO GEOLOGY’S OUTLINE OF EARTH’SHISTORY.
· THE HEBREW WORD yarn FOR “DAY” IN GENESIS 1 CAN MEAN A24 HOUR DAY OR IT CAN MEAN A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME.
¨ AZOIC ERA — ROCKS FORMED AND COOLED
Ø 4,500,000,000 – 17,000,000,000 YRS.AGO
¨ ARCHEOZOIC ERA — SEAS AND ALGAE FOSSILS
Ø 2,100,000,000 -1,300,000,000 YRS.AGO.
¨ PROTEROZOIC ERA — GLACIERS, SIMPLE PLANTS,SPONGES, AND WORMS
Ø 1,000,000,000 – 750,000,000 YRS.AGO.
¨ PALEOZOIC ERA — FORESTS, FISH, REPTILES
Ø 500,000,000 – 230,000,000 YRS.AGO.
¨ MESOZOIC ERA — LARGE TREES, DINOSAURS, BIRDS
Ø 200,000,000 – 130,000,000 YRS.AGO.
¨ CENOZOIC ERA — NORTHERN GLACIERS, MAMMALS,HUMANS
Ø 60,000,000 – 10,000 YRS.AGO.
§ THEREFORE, FOSSIL MEN AREALL RELATED TO MODERN MAN AND ALL DESCENDANTS OF ADAM. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED BEFORETHE PLEISTOCENE ICE AGE.
§ BIBLICAL AND SCIENTIFICREALITIES:
· READ GENESIS 1:1-27
¨ IF YOU EXAMINE THE 6-DAY CREATION IN GENESIS1, IT DOES NOT LINE UP WITH THE 6 GEOLOGIC ERAS EXACTLY.
Ø SEE SPECIFICALLY GEN 1:14-19 — THE FOURTHDAY.
§ CREATION OF THE SUN ANDMOON ON THE FOURTH DAY WOULD MEAN THAT THE PLANTS CREATED ON THE THIRD DAY WOULD EXISTMILLIONS OF YEARS WITHOUT SUNLIGHT.
§ THE BIBLE SAYS OVER ANDOVER, THE ‘EVENING AND THE MORNING’ WERE THE FIRST DAY (SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, ETC.)ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN THAT THE JEWS USED TO RECKON A DAY, FROM SUNSET TO SUNSET.
· READ EXO 20:11
§ THIS THEORY VIOLATES ROM5:14 AND 1COR 15:21-22 WHERE DEATH CAME BY ADAM. THIS THEORY DEPENDS UPON THE IDEA THATTHERE WAS DEATH MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE ADAM.
Ø THE GAP THEORY OF CREATION:
§ GOD CREATED ALL ANGELS SOMETIME IN THE DISTANT PAST EACH HAVING A WILL.
§ GOD CREATED EARTH AND OTHERPLANETS IN GEN 1:1.
· LUCIFER (SATAN) SOUGHT TO BE GODAND WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN TO EARTH WITH 1/3 OF THE ANGELS WHO FELL WITH HIM. (SEE EZE28:11-19 ISA 14:12-23)
¨ WHEN SATAN WAS CAST TO EARTH, IT CAUSED 6CATACLYSMIC EVENTS ON THE EARTH THAT RUINED (BECAME VOID) THE ORIGINAL CREATION.
Ø THESE 6 CATACLYSMIC EVENTS CORRESPOND TO THE6 PERIODS OF GEOLOGIC TIME LISTED ABOVE.
§ THE RESULT OF THESECATACLYSMIC EVENTS CAUSED COAL AND OIL DEPOSITS OF FOSSILS FROM A PRE-CREATION WORLD DEEPWITHIN THE EARTH.
Ø THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS WERE TURNED OFF. JOB9:7
¨ THEREFORE, A GAP OF AN UNKNOWN LENGTH OF TIMEEXISTED BETWEEN GEN 1:1 AND GEN 1:2. (SEE ISA 45:18 AND JER 4:23-28)
§ GEN 1:2 IS THE BEGINNING OFA NEW CREATION OF SIX LITERAL DAYS 6-10,000 YEARS AGO.
· DINOSAURS AND APE-TYPE MENEXISTED IN THE ORIGINALCREATION IN GEN 1:1 AND BECAME EXTINCT WHEN LUCIFER FELL BEFORE THE NEW CREATION IN GEN1:2. THEREFORE, APE-TYPE MEN ARE NOT RELATED TO ADAM.
· ADAM AND EVE WERE PROBABLYCREATED ABOUT 10,000 YEARS AGO.
§ BIBLICAL EVIDENCE:
· THE WORD “‘WAS’ WITHOUT FORMAND VOID” IN GEN 1:2 LITERALLY MEANS “BECAME” WITHOUT FORM AND VOID.
¨ THEHEBREW WORD VOID IS bohu.
Ø THE SAME WORD IS USED IN ISA 45:18. IT SAYSGOD DID NOT CREATE THE WORLD AS A VOID. THEREFORE, THE VOID OCCURRED IN THEFALL OF LUCIFER.
· THE WORD “‘REPLENISH’ THEEARTH” IN GEN 1:28 LITERALLY MEANS ‘TO FILL IT AGAIN’ INDICATING THAT THERE MAY HAVEBEEN A CREATION BEFORE ADAM WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY LUCIFER’S FALL.
¨ HOWEVER, THE WORD, REPLENISHIS ONLY OBSERVABLE IN THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.
§ BIBLICAL CONSEQUENCE:
· DEATH CAME TO ALL OF ADAM’SCREATION AS A RESULT OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM AND EVE. THE BIBLE DOES NOT TALK ABOUTDEATH PRIOR TO ADAM AND EVE’S FALL IN GEN 3. (ROM 5:14)
¨ DEATH DID NOT EXIST BEFORE THAT TIME. (GEN 2:17). THEREFORE, FOR THERE TO HAVE EXISTED ACREATION PRIOR TO ADAM THAT DIED, PRESENTS A BASIC PROBLEM. JESUS CHRIST CAME TO REDEEMMAN NOT ONLY FROM HIS PERSONAL SIN BUT FROM “ORIGINAL SIN” THAT BEGAN WITH ADAM.THE BIBLE DOES NOT MENTION A PRE-ADAM SIN THAT BROUGHT DEATH INTO THE WORLD FOR WHICH WENEED A REDEEMER.
· EXO 20:11 SAYS GOD MADE HEAVENAND EARTH AND EVERYTHING IN 6 DAYS WITH NO GAP OF YEARS IN BETWEEN.
Ø A COMBINATION OF THE GAP THEORY AND THEFLOOD GEOLOGY THEORY OF CREATION:
§ THIS COMBINATION THEORYACCEPTS ALL THE ABOVE STATEMENTS OF THE FLOOD GEOLOGY THEORY. IT ALSO ACCEPTS THE RUINED(VOID) CREATION BECAUSE OF THE FALL OF LUCIFER (SATAN) FROM THE GAP THEORY IN ORDER TOEXPLAIN THE WORDING IN GEN 1:2.
§ THIS COMBINATION THEORYREJECTS THE IDEA THAT THERE WAS ANY PRE-ADAM CREATION OF MAN OR ANIMALS.
§ THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE:
· IF GOD SAID THROUGHOUT THE SIXDAYS THAT HIS CREATION WAS GOOD, SATANS FALL MUST HAVE OCCURRED AFTERTHE FIRST WEEK OF CREATION AND NOT BETWEEN GEN 1:1 AND GEN 1:2.
Ø THE LITERAL DAY THEORY OF CREATION:
§ GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSEAND ADAM IN 6 LITERAL DAYS ABOUT 6-10,000 YEARS AGO.
§ THERE IS NO ATTEMPT TOEXPLAIN OR RECONCILE ANY LEGITIMATE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.
§ READ HEB 11:3.
v HOMEWORK
v GENESIS 1
v THIS IS ASELF-STUDY. PLEASE DO NOT SEND HOMEWORK ANSWERS TO THE TEACHER FOR CORRECTION
v APPLICATION OF THE INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 1:
Ø WRITE A PARAGRAPH OF YOUR OWN THEORY ANDVIEWPOINT OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT CREATION:
v PREPARATION FOR GEN 1
Ø READ GEN 1:1-31
§ MAKE A CHART OF EACH DAY’SEVENTS:
v DAY 1:
v DAY 2:
v DAY 3:
v DAY 4:
v DAY 5:
v DAY 6:
v MEMORY VERSE: GEN 1:31
