Tuesday, August 16, 11

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2 Genesis Genesis is not an explanation of how God created everything. Genesis is a declaration that God created everything.

3 We would very soon become contemptuous of a god whom we could figure out like a puzzle or learn to use like a tool. No, if God is worth our attention at all, he must be a God we can look up to a God we must look up to. --Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

4 Genesis 1: The Creator-Creation Distinction 2. When God Speaks, Stuff Happens! 3. God is Creative 4. God Transforms Things

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6 The Village Chapel On average, how many times would you have to flip a coin for heads to come up 10 times in a row? 2,048

7 The Village Chapel On average, how many times would you have to flip a coin for heads to come up 100 times in a row? 2,530,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 2.5 million, trillion, trillion

8 The Village Chapel Probability of life on earth happening by chance versus design: 10 million, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion.

9 The Village Chapel Since there is a chance, was there time? Infinite versus Finite Universe Model 1929 Edwin Hubble: Galaxies are indeed expanding away from one another. Einstein: Acknowledge the necessity of a beginning.

10 The Village Chapel The earth is estimated to be 4.56 billion years old First life forms (algae) appear some 3.45 billion years ago It took 1.1 billion years to create algae! How much longer to evolve to humans? Answer: There was not enough time for humans to evolve.

11 The Village Chapel In the Beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, The First and the Last. Revelations 22:13

12 "Men go abroad and wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." --Saint Augustine

13 Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

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15 Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

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17 Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

18 Genesis 1:26-31

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21 "There are certain forms of stupidity that one has to be highly intelligent and educated to commit." --Dr. J. Budziszewski Professor of Government and Philosophy, University of Texas Author of What We Can t Not Know (Former atheist)

22 The amazing success of the theory of evolution has protected it from significant critical evaluation in recent times. However, it fails in a most important respect. It cannot account for the existence of each one of us as unique self-conscious beings. Sir John Eccles, Nobel prize winner in medicine and physiology

23 What is unique about God s creation of humankind? 1. First person plural

24 What is unique about God s creation of humankind? 1. First person plural 2. Imago dei

25 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Philippians 2:12-13

26 What is unique about God s creation of humankind? 1. First person plural 2. Imago dei 3. Gender references

27 What is unique about God s creation of humankind? 1. First person plural 2. Imago dei 3. Gender references 4. Delegated dominion

28 The yearning to know What cannot be known, to comprehend the Incomprehensible, to touch and taste the Unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its Source. A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy