Genesis 1-11, Week 5

Days 6 & 7Genesis 1:26-2:25

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Last Week

• Third Day– Finished His Work With Water: Land & Seas– First Life: Vegetation - Cell Complexity

• Fourth Day– Light Sources: Signs, Seasons, Days & Years

• Fifth Day– Sea and and Creatures

• Sixth Day - Partial– Living Land Creatures

2nd Day: Separated the Waters & Created The ExpanseDid not say 'Good'

3rd Day: Finished Water = Good; Cell = Life: Wall + Inside StuffPlants: “Self-Replicating Solar-Powered Food Factories”

They are NOT Living Creatures

Last Week

• Third Day– Finished His Work With Water: Land & Seas– First Life: Vegetation - Cell Complexity

• Fourth Day– Light Sources: Signs, Seasons, Days & Years

• Fifth Day– Sea and and Creatures

• Sixth Day - Partial– Living Land Creatures

Luminaries: Order Provides Validation (Not made up) & Opposes god RaNot Week: Not until Exodus 20God Provided 6-Day Creation in Anticipation

Sun > Energy, Moon > Tides, Oh, and stars too ...RMC 136a1: If where Sun is, it would encompass Jupiter!

Earth is Special

• Search for ...– Privileged Planet

youtube.com

• Designed for Life

• Designed to Study

Earth, Moon Sun ratio - CoronaGalaxy position:

Goldilocks ZoneCan Observe the Universe

Last Week

• Third Day– Finished His Work With Water: Land & Seas– First Life: Vegetation - Cell Complexity

• Fourth Day– Light Sources: Signs, Seasons, Days & Years

• Fifth Day– Living Sea and Air Creatures

• Sixth Day - Partial– Living Land Creatures

God Created Things At Their Functional Maturity StageKINDS! No Evolution! God said so!

There are Variations Within KindsHybridization; The Test Of Kinds: Requires “True Fertilization”

Biblical Kinds are not species, genus, ...Many Evolutionist Have Stated Doubts - Too complex at the startDinosaurs and Humans - Pictures, Carvings, Hunted & Killed

Man's Classifications

• Carnivore!

Man's Classifications

• Belongs to the order Carnivora?

Although it belongs to the order Carnivora, the panda's diet is 99% bamboo. Pandas in the wild occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion. In captivity, they may get honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food.

The 6th Day's Work Is Half Done

• Genesis 1:25 (NIV)

[25] God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

Now for “The rest of the story”

Day 6 Continues

• Genesis 1:26-28 (NIV)[26] Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”[27] So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

[28] God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Day 6 Continues

• Genesis 1:26 (NIV)[26] Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, ...

• Wayne Grudem (Systematic Theology)When God says, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness", the meaning is that God plans to make a creature similar to himself. Both the Hebrew word for 'image' (tselem) and the Hebrew word for 'likeness' (demût) refer to something that is similar but not identical to the thing it represents or is an 'image' of.

[26] God = Elohim, us ...Discontinuity! 1. Let us make ... not Let there be ... Or Let the ... bring forth ...2. Mankind not from animals not by the earth itself3. God's Special Creation - More detail in Chapter 2His image & likeness: Grudem + Representative for God to Creation: Oh no, it's Adam- Communicable attributes such as reason, love, will, discernment, morality, and language.- Not incommunicable attributes such as omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, and self-existence.

• Ape to Human?

Evolution = Lies!

Strong statement but true.Every one of these is KNOWN to be

Ape, Human, Fraud - But still taught as fact!

Evolution = Lies!• Piltdown Man

In 1953, Piltdown Man was exposed as a forgery, mainly through the work of Dr Kenneth Oakley.He showed that the skull was from a modern human and that the jawbone and teeth were from an orangutan.

Evolution = Lies!

• Nebraska Man: Ramapithecus

Invented →

← From

Used to support evolution in the 1925 Scopes trial

Evolution = Lies!

• Lucy – Claimed to be an

upright walker in the human evolutionary line

– The rib cage, pelvis and leg and foot bones are all identical to ape anatomy which is very different from human.

– Lucy is a knuckle walker

Evolution = Lies!

• Neandertals– Constructed to look ape-

like– Used jewelry– Used musical

instruments– Did cave paintings– Capable of speech– Buried their dead– Their DNA is within the

variation found in humans today

– They completely disappeared mysteriously

8% of the HUMANS today have Neanderthal Genes!Recent news about getting addicted to smoking due to N. Genes

Day 6 Continues

• Genesis 1:26 (NIV)[26] Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

• Dominion Mandate– Exhaustive, Except for Mankind

Except for Mankind does not exclude authority relationshipsHusband wife, Kings, Parents, ...

Day 6 Continues

• Implications of the Dominion Mandate– Not Removed by the Fall - Just Harder– Not License to Abuse

• Anti-Christian Accusation: (Counter Survival of Fittest?)

• Historically, Worst Abusers Have Been Atheistic Communist Societies

– Stewardship• Not to Worship Like Pagans• Not to Waste Selfishly or Carelessly

1 Kings 4:24-25 (NIV) Solomon:[24] For he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, and had peace on all sides. [25] During Solomon's lifetime Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, lived in safety, each man under his own vine and fig tree.

Psalm 72:8 (NIV) Messiah:[8] He will rule from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.

God Makes Science Possible

• Already Mentioned That The Universe Was Designed For Discovery

• Enablers– Objective Truth– Universe is Real and Orderly– Study to Learn About God– Investigate to Make Good Use of Resources– Humans Can Think and Are Rational– Honesty

Objective Truth: For you, not me, No absolute truth: God Gave it.Universe can be studied: not an illusion, not randomLearn About God: Greek philosophers vs Galileo, Kepler

Gr: Heavenly bodies perfect, no sun spots, Orbits perfect CirclesUse of Resources: Domionin MandateThink and Rational: Thoughts are not random chemistry or predeterminedHonesty: Test Objectively and Report experimental results accurately

Day 6 Continues

• Genesis 1:27 (NIV)

[27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

• Men and Women Bear the Godly Image Equally

Men and Women Bear the Godly Image / Likeness / Similarity / Representation EquallyWhere no Christianity, women are not respectedHow does evolution contribute to valuing women?

Not inferior to men (Survival of fittest - weaker)Not just for gene propagation - to evolve

Marriage: Jesus used 1:27 & 2:24 to support one man & one woman, for life.Matthew 19:4-6 (NIV) [4] “Haven't you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,' [5] and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? [6] So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.

Day 6 Continues

• Genesis 1:28 (NIV)[28] God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.

• God Invented Sex– Muslims got it Wrong!– Overpopulation is Not A Problem– Population Growth

• World is Less Poor, Less Unhealthy, Less Hungry• We Advance Together

Muslims think Fall was from having sex.Overpopulation: Several pages of comments disproving alarmists

Doom and Gloom Claims have not happened: EG: OilRemember what God said at Babel?

Day 6 Continues

• Genesis 1:29-30 (NIV)[29] Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. [30] And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

All with the Breath of Life are to be VegetariansDerek Kider (Anglican Priest) claimed the command was not exclusively vegetarianBut Noahic Covenant (Genesis 9:3 (NIV) Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. makes no sense if that is true.Huge problem for Long Agers: Fossils show carnivery, therefore must be after Adam's Fall

Long-Age Critic of Compromizers

• Atheist, leading biologist and Nobel Laureate Jacques Monod (1910—1976) stated that evolution is:"The more cruel because it is a process of elimination, of destruction. The struggle for life and elimination of the weakest is a horrible process, against which our whole modern ethics revolts. An ideal society is a non-selective society, is one where the weak is protected; which is exactly the reverse of the so-called natural law. l am surprised that a Christian would defend the idea that this is the process which God more or less set up in order to have evolution".

And still he rejects God!

Day 6 Concludes

• Genesis 1:31 (NIV)

[31] God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Day 6 Concludes

• The German Lutheran OT scholar Gerhard von Rad (1901—1971), emphasized that this declaration that the creation was "very good"

is of great importance within the terse and plain language of the author. It could also be translated "completely perfect," and rightly refers more to the wonderful purposefulness and harmony than to the beauty of the entire cosmos. This statement, expressed and written in a world full of innumerable troubles, preserves an inalienable concern of faith: no evil was laid upon the world by God's hand; neither was His omnipotence limited by any kind of opposing power whatever... God created the world perfect.

Day 7: God Rests

• Genesis 2:1-3 (NIV)

[1] Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.[2] By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. [3] And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Another merismheavens and the earth = Everything

Day 7: God Rests

• His Creative Plan is Finished– He is Not Tired– It's About Completeness

• His Sustaining (upholding) Is Different– Mass-energy is Constant: 1st Law– Entropy is Increasing: 2nd Law

• We have the Basis for our Work Week– See Exodus 20-8-11, 31:15-17– In six days The Lord made [everything]

And He rested on the 7th.

1st & 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics are in operationEnergy available for work is Decreasing = Increasing Entropy

The First Toledot

• Genesis 2:4 (ESV)[4] These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created,in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

• The Following Is Not Another Creation Account– It is what follows from the Finished Creation– It Fills In Details

The first of 11 toledot statementsthe account / generations of ...

what follows from the Previous SectionIn the Day

- Referring to the previous 6 days of creating- NOT license to read back into previous days an indeterminate time

Preparations for Man(kind)

• Genesis 2:5-6 (ESV)

[5] When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, [6] and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—

This Describes conditions on Earth before Adam

Preparations for Man(kind)

• Explaining What Earth Was Like– General Vegetation and Grass from Day 3– No Field Plants, Bushes and Fruit Trees

• Was There Rain Before The Flood?– This Describes Things Before Adam– Did God Change Natural Laws After The

Flood?• Before: No Evaporation, Precipitation, Dispersion

of Light?• No Indication in Scripture Indicating That He Did

Does God use Already Existing Things to Teach New Things?- 6-Day Creation > Week- Bread & Wine > Body & Blood of Christ- Why not Rainbows?

Mist has been used to justify false Vapor CanopyIMPORTANT to look at What Scripture Actually Does & Does Not SayExegesis Not Eisegesis!

Here Come The Humans!

• Genesis 2:7 (ESV)[7] then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

• One Functionally Mature Male– Formed (Let us make) Not Spoken into Existence– From Dust (clay, mud?) Lowly Common Stuff– God Breathed; Spirit of God Added– Mixture of Dignity & Lowliness

Not from an Ape!Dust, Clay, Mud? Not sure except Not Mud.

Here Come The Humans!

• Affirmed in 1st Corinthians 15:45-47 (ESV)[45] Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. [46] But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. [47] The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

• God as Potter– Isaiah 29:16, 41:25, Jeremiah 18:1-4, ...

Potter = Metaphor used in other places

Here Come The Humans!

• Copied in Pagan Religions: Egypt

Egyptian creation accounts. Distorted Copies> In the 'Great Hymn to Khnum' the god Khnum is portrayed as "forming all on his potter's wheel ... for the lord of the wheel is their father too, Tatenen who made all that is on their soil . . . He made mankind, created gods, he fashioned flocks and herds. He made birds, fishes, and reptiles all."> The Memphite theology similarly depicts Ptah as a potter creating the universe.> The breathing of the breath of life into man also has an Egyptian counterpart. One of the primary goddesses of Egypt is Hekhet, depicted as a human female with a frog's head. She is the spouse of the creator god Khnum. When he fashions The Egyptian ram-headed human bodies on the potter's wheel, Hekhet then blows the breath of life into them.

Here Come The Humans!

• In Genesis ...– ... the man became a living creature ...– From Non-Living Stuff

• In Theistic Evolution (Hugh Ross)– Dust = Metaphor for Ape-Like Ancestors– Problem!

• Genesis 3:19 (ESV) By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

So when we die we turn back into Apes!?This is a good example of the nonsense that results from distorting parts of Scripture.

Other parts turn into nonsense.

Here Come The Humans!

• Are We Physical + Spirit?– Physical is Obvious (Except to Existentialists)– Spirit or Intellect

• Think of a dog• Something dog-like must be in your brain if all is

physical.• But dog-ness is abstracted over an area of brain

– Intellect 'rides' on the brain• Physical Damage results in Capability Damage• EG: Video is through your TV not in it.

Deep stuff - requires deep thinkingWe are just glossing overConsciousness is still a mystery to naturalists

Finishing His Home

• Genesis 2:8-9 (ESV)[8] And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. [9] And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• Where is Eden?

Trees that are attractive and provide nourishment+ 2 strange ones - More next week

Preflood world erased! Thought to be a mountaintop:Fits ANE Concepts of Garden Paradise (Where did that come from?)Would explain 1 spring splitting into 4 rivers ... next

Finishing His Home

• Genesis 2:10-14 (ESV)[10] A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. [11] The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. [12] And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. [13] The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. [14] And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Something strange about these rivers?1 > 4 not now

Tigris & Euphrates: Must be in Mesopotamia? Familiar namesPishon: Missing from Mesopotamia todayGihon: Flows through Cush? (Ethiopia) from M.?

I've Got A Job For You!

• Genesis 2:15-17 (ESV)[15] The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. [16] And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, [17] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

• Work Before The Fall

Work is hard now due to sinIt was not so originally

Responsibilities!

• in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die– Obedience Required– More Next Week

• Uh-oh! Not Good!– Very Good = Complete, Finished– Not Good = Not Yet Finished– So Go Name The Animals?

Naming The Animals

• Genesis 2:18-20 (ESV)[18] Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” [19] Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. [20] The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

Was Naming The Animals a diversion - busy work - while God got things ready to make Eve?All this in ONE DAY!?

God Brought them to AdamNot all living species - Kinds, & only land and air crittersNot fish, bugs etc.

Saw each one paired with another - no helper fit for him

a helper fit for him

• Genesis 2:21-23 (ESV)[21] So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. [22] And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. [23] Then the man said,“This at last is bone of my bonesand flesh of my flesh;she shall be called Woman,because she was taken out of Man.”

After spending hours seeing pairs of animals and no fit partner for himself ...First Anesthesia

First Anesthesia

• Deep Sleep not Ecstatic Fog

• Sir James Young Simpson (1811– 1870)A Scottish obstetrician: He discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for general medical use

Adam's Rib

• Both man and woman were created in God's image

• Men and women are equal in nature• The absolute unity of the human race in

descent from one ancestor is established• The true dignity of womankind is set:

– woman is neither of the foot nor of the head, for she is neither superior nor inferior to man; she is exactly on the same level with him

If a part of the substance of man is to be used, none could be found that could be more conveniently dispensed with than a rib.If the periosteum is left intact, the rib will grow back: the only bone to do so.- The thick, fibrous membrane covering the entire surface of a bone except its articular cartilage and the areas where it attaches to tendons and ligaments

Wow!

• ... God brought her to the man ...– Marriage is Divinely Established

• Adam is excited!– His first recorded words– Repeats 'this' 3 times which is a Hebrew

Indicator of animated response'This is the proper step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken; 2:23 (YLT)

– woman = 'ishshah; man = 'ish

Now he has a proper partnerSame word similarity in Hebrew as in English

Marriage

• Genesis 2:24 (ESV)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

• Jesus' response against divorce ...– “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made

them male and female.' Mark 10:6 (NIV)– Not only establishes the divine nature of

marriage, but also– Tells us something about the time of creation

Marriage From The Beginning

At the beginning or0.0067% of the end?

Perfection ... for now

• Genesis 2:25 (ESV)And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

• They needed no clothes, because there was no sin.

• There was perfect harmony– between the man and the woman– between them and their Creator– between them and the rest of creation

Until next week ...