INTRO: The little girl proudly told her mother she could recite Genesis 1:1 complete with chapter and verse. The encouraged mother, of course, wanted to hear this great accomplishment. “In the beginning...” the little girl said, “... God created the heavens and the earth” Genesis 9-1-1. What a great truth we have here in Genesis 1:1. In the first message we saw that was written by Moses, some 3500 years and some 2500 years after the fact. We do not know if the words of were revealed to him divinely or whether it was relayed to him by his forefathers, or whether both methods were used, but we did insist that the information was divinely inspired, and that we must use the literal, normal method of interpretation.
This morning we want to consider the words, “In the beginning God...” four words in English 2, in Hebrew; biresheet bara, “In the beginning God...” We're going to look at the chronology of creation, from Genesis 1:1-2:4. Here we have a consistent chronology of creation. Then we're going to look at the crown of creation, Genesis 2:5 and on. Man, the crown of creation. And then in Genesis chapter 3 we are going to look at the crucible of creation; the test of man, the fall of man. |
