1. Genesis 1
Foundation Book of the Bible
Mike Mazzalongo

2. Two Essential Acts of Creation: Creation of inanimate world
Review
Two Essential Acts of Creation:
Creation of inanimate world
Creation of animate world

3. Creation of Man
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;
- Genesis 1:26a

4. The Divine Council
20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you.
- I Peter 1:20

5. The Divine Council
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come. - Revelation 17:8

6. The Divine Council
The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
- Psalm 110:1

7. The Divine Council
“Come near to Me, listen to this: From the first I have not spoken in secret, From the time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord GOD has sent Me, and His Spirit.” - Isa. 48:66

8. The Divine Council
Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
- John 17:24

9. The Divine Council
God Communicates

10. God has a multi-person nature
The Divine Council
God Communicates
God has a multi-person nature

11. Man’s creation is a result of design
The Divine Council
God Communicates
God has a multi-person nature
Man’s creation is a result of design

12. Man’s Creation
Adam = Man = Earth

13. Adam = Man = Earth Adam = Triune Nature Body Consciousness/Soul
Man’s Creation
Adam = Man = Earth
Adam = Triune Nature
Body
Consciousness/Soul
Spiritual Character

14. Ecc. 3:21
Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

15. Ephesians 1:9
He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him.

16. Genesis 1:26b
and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

17. Man’s position in creation is the result of God’s creative Act, not a matter of chance or survival of the fittest.

18. Gen. 1:27
27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

19. Essence Variation
(Likeness of God) (Male/Female)

20. World to Come (New Heaven/Earth) Pre-Sin World (Adam & Eve)
Two Worlds
World to Come (New Heaven/Earth)
Pre-Sin World (Adam & Eve)

21. Gen. 1:28
28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

22. Gen. 1:29
29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

23. Gen. 1:30
30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.

24. Gen. 1:31
31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

25. God’s Charge to Man
One Man – One Woman

26. God’s Charge to Man
One Man – One Woman
Fill the Earth

27. God’s Charge to Man
One Man – One Woman
Fill the Earth
Manage Creation

28. Diet God’s Charge to Man One Man – One Woman Fill the Earth
Manage Creation
Diet

29. All is Good – Young Earth
God’s Charge to Man
One Man – One Woman
Fill the Earth
Manage Creation
Diet
All is Good – Young Earth