2. Differing Views
of Creation

3. How God reveals himself
1. God simply is.

4. How God reveals himself
God simply is.
God made everything.

5. How God reveals himself
God simply is.
God made everything.
God is a talking God.

6. How God reveals himself
God simply is.
God made everything.
God is a talking God.
Everything He makes is good.

7. How God reveals himself
General Revelation
Specific Revelation

8. Isaiah 41:9
You whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you,
“You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off.”

9. 1 Corinthians 15:14
Only if Christ is not risen from the dead is our faith in vain .

10. The guidelines necessary for consistent interpretation... hermeneutics
The Universe being created by a personal God
Literal Adam and Eve
Literal Fall (see that in Gen. 3)
Ongoing consequences of the Fall

11. Different Approaches:
1. Young Earth Creationism
2. Gap Theory
3. Progressive Creationism
4. Theistic Evolution

12. Young Earth Creationism
Genesis 1 & 2 are a totally literal and straight forward description of how God created the universe.

13. Young Earth Creationism
The earth is around 10,000 to 14,000 years old (some would say as young as 6000 years old).

14. Young Earth Creationism
RESOURCES:
Website:
Answersingenesis.org
Ken Ham
Documentary:
Netflix – “Is Genesis History”

15. Gap theory
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2

16. Gap theory
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2
2 And the earth BECAME formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

17. Meaning of Day – Genesis 1
“For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday (yom) when it passes by, or as a watch in the night”
Psalm 90:4

18. Meaning of Day – Genesis 1
“This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day (yom) that the LORD God made earth and heaven.”
Genesis 2:4

19. Progressive creationism
And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:5

20. Progressive creationism
RESOURCES:
website:
reasons.org
Hugh Ross

21. Theistic Evolution
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so.
Genesis 2:4

22. Theistic Evolution
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so.
Genesis 2:4

23. Scary Steps of Faith:
Take time to study and learn about the creation theories.
Take time each day and look at God’s creation. Do the conscience work of letting His creation reveal God to you.