1. The Creation of the World
Chapter 3

2. Overview Why God created the Universe?
Genesis 1: God Creates the World in Seven Days
Genesis 2:4 – God creates Man a second time
Humankind created in the Imago Dei (Image of God)
The Nature of Marriage
The Fall of Man & Promise of a future Savior
Original Sin & Evil in the World
Creationists vs. Evolutionists – Church and Science
Metaphysical Questions raised by the origin of the universe and man

3. Key Ideas A Covenant with the Universe (pp. 44-51)
The Creation of the Family (pp )
The Fall of Man and Questions of Origins (pp )

4. Science or Theology Which are you more likely to ask/be interested in…
How was the universe created?
Why was the universe created?
Genesis is a religious account of the Creation of the Universe. The Sacred Author was not intending to communicate precisely how God created the universe (although it seems that way), but was showing Why God created it.

5. Genesis 1 – “origin” God Creates out of Nothing – Ex Nihilo
First three days:
Creation of Time – day/night, progression from one state to another
Creation of Space – separation of “water” by the “firmament”
Creation of Life
Second three days (Rulers)
Rulers of Time – Sun & Moon are created
Rulers of Space – Sea and Air Creatures
Rulers of Life – lastly man – Steward of Creation
“God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good”

6. On the Seventh Day, God Rested
God doesn’t stop at six days
We are not merely made and that’s it
We join with God in the Sabbath covenant
God Blessed the day and made it Holy.
All Creation is a great temple for the worship of God

7. Genesis 2:4 – Second Creation Story
Not two different stories, same story but different emphasis – remember different authors!
Sets up original intent of God-Human interaction – Eden = perfection

8. Creationists vs. Evolutionists

9. Made in the Image of God
God, as a loving Father of his children, created Adam and Eve to co-create with Him (our work).
We have intelligence, free will, and the capacity to love.
All human life possesses Sacredness

10. God, Our FAther Main Point Brief Explanation God is our Father
In Genesis, “Image and Likeness” describes a father/son relationship
We are like God
We have intelligence, free will, and the capacity to love; we share in the love and life of the Trinity
Human life is sacred
Being made in the Image of God makes us sacred; we have value in ourselves, regardless of what we do or possess
Work has special value
We work in the imitation of God our Father, our dignity does not come from what we do, but our work has dignity because it comes from us.

11. The Fall of Man Genesis 3 Adam and Eve Nahash – serpent Original Sin
“You will not die” – spiritual death
Truth, but twisted
Original Sin
PRIDE!
Tricked by our own desires
Kicked out of Paradise

12. What we lost when we fell (Consequences of the Fall)
Main Point
Brief Explanation
Childbearing
Child birth will be painful
Family Life
Still in the Image of God, but marred by sin
Work
Work will be toilsome, sometimes difficult and filled with thorns
Physical Life
Will end with death

13. MetaPhysical Questions
From Ancient Greek: AFTER a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being and that includes ontology, cosmology, & often epistemology
Is the universe governed by chance; fate; necessity; or a transcendent, intelligent and good being?
Why is there evil? Where does it come from, who is responsible for it, and is there liberation from it?

14. Cain and Abel Genesis 4 Cain’s Envy God’s intervention
“Am I my Brother’s Keeper?”
“That escalated quickly” – Ron Burgundy

15. Review Why God created the Universe? Made in the Image of God
Sin and Consequences
Creationists vs. Evolutionists – Church and Science
Deeper Questions of life