God is real, supreme and perfect. Genesis 1 – spoilers! God is real, supreme and perfect. He is outside of the Universe, and entirely and solely responsible for creating it. The Creation has a purpose: its elements are formed and filled to display his glory, his holiness and his love. He created humanity to bear his image in the world and to oversee it on his behalf. He rested from his first Creation, and we have spoiled his image in the earth. Our hope is in the new Creation, through which we can be formed anew and filled with his goodness.

In the beginning … … God

Let there be …

Separate … … the light and dark 2Cor 6:14,17 “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” Therefore, ‘Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.’ … the light from the darkness (v4, 18) … water from water (v6,7) … land from seas (v9) … kinds of plants (v11,12) … the day from the night (v14) … kinds of fish, and of birds (v21) … kinds of animals (v24)

Formless and empty (v2) Six days of forming and filling Day 1 – light and dark Day 2 – sea and sky Day 3 – waters and land Day 4 – sun, moon, stars Day 5 – sealife and birds Day 6 – animals and humans

The Enuma Elish Sumerian creation account Many ‘gods’ … starting with two gods of water… … including gods named ‘Sun’ and ‘Moon’ Pantheistic … promoted nature worship

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son - Romans 8:29 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation – Col 1:15