week 3 inspiriation - genesis

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The Bible: Inspired of God

Why is understanding the inspiration of the Bible so important?

The Bible: Inspired of God

How would you explain “verbal plenary” inspiration?

The Bible: Inspired of God

Why are other theories attractive?

The Bible: Inspired of God

Why are their limitations?

The Bible: Inspired of God

What are the evidences of inspiration?

The Bible: Inspired of God

How is the Person of Jesus related to inspiration?

The Bible: Inspired of God

How do we handle the difficult realities of human experience?

i.e., Job, Ecclesiastes, “lies,” etc.

The Bible: Inspired of God

What about “contradictions?”

The Bible: Inspired of God

How would you explain the inspiration of the Bible to a “seeker”?

What about a skeptic?

Book of Genesis

The Book of

Beginnings &

Believing

Book of Beginnings1. Creation (ch. 1)

1. Creation (ch. 1)In the beginning God

created the Heaven and the Earth (1:1).

Summary: what He did.

1:2-2:25: how He did it.

Refutation

Refutation1.Atheism There is a God

Refutation1.Atheism

2.Polytheism

There is a God

One God

Refutation1.Atheism

2.Polytheism

3.Evolution

There is a God

One God

He created all

Refutation1.Atheism

2.Polytheism

3.Evolution

4.Pantheism

There is a God

One God

He created all

Separate from

Refutation1.Atheism

2.Polytheism

3.Evolution

4.Pantheism

5.Materialism

There is a God

One God

He created all

Separate from

Beginning to it

Refutation1.Atheism

2.Polytheism

3.Evolution

4.Pantheism

5.Materialism

6.Fatalism

There is a God

One God

He created all

Separate from

Beginning to it

Purpose to it

Creation & Re-creation?Genesis 1:1 & Genesis 1:2:1) In the beginning God created the

heavens and the earth.  2) Now the earth was formless and

empty*, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

(* tohu va vohu = desolate, desert, wilderness, worthless thing)

Creation & Re-creation?Isaiah 45:18For this is what the LORD says—

he who created the heavens, he is God;…he did not create it to be empty*, but formed it to be inhabited—

(* tohu va vohu = desolate, desert, wilderness, worthless thing)

Creation & Re-creation?Is there a “gap” between Gen.

1:1 & 1:2??• Fall of Satan – (Lk. 10:18, Isa.

14:12-17, Ez. 28:12-19) = Pride in his beauty

• 1/3 of Angels fell w/ him (Rev. 12:3-4)

• War in heaven (Rev. 12:7-9)• “War is hell” (James 4:1-3)

Creation & Re-creation?

2 Corinthians 5:17“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,

he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”

Book of Beginnings2. The Family (ch. 2)

Book of Beginnings

3. Sin & Death(ch. 3)

Book of Beginnings4. Promise of a Redeemer

(3:15)

Book of Beginnings5. Human Civilization (ch 4)

Book of Beginnings6. Babylon (ch. 11)

Book of Beginnings7. The Jewish Nation

(ch. 12)

Book of Beginnings & Believing

8. Justification

by Faith

(ch. 15)

God’s 7 Promises to Abraham - Gen 12

God’s 7 Promises to Abraham - Gen 12

1.Make you a great nation

2.I will bless you

3.Make your name great

4.You will be a blessing

5. Bless those who bless you

6. Curse those who curse you

7. All people blessed through you

10 years later, with most of those promises still unfulfilled, Abraham says,

“Uh, God,….what’s up with all those big ole promises you gave me? Not to be ungrateful, but they really haven’t shown up yet…

How can I know it’s really going to happen?”(Genesis 15:8)

Genesis

God says, let’s “cut a covenant”.

Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, plus a dove and a young pigeon…a bloody sacrifice.

GenesisGod’s promises to us?

For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ [a bloody sacrifice].

And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God.

(2 Corinthians 1:20)