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We are so highly blessed
to have planet earth that was created
to sustain us!
How did it all come to be?
God created it, Himself!
Some Bible verses to think about.
In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth.
and without Him was not anything
made that was made.
Romans 1:21
For the invisible things of Him
from the creation of the world
are clearly seen,
being understood by
the things that are made,
even His eternal power
and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse.
So over the empty place,
and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the firmament shows His handiwork.
1. Title Page
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In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth.
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- Laying some groundwork -
3. The Bible tells us there is one God.
God is described as many things
but 1 John 1:5 describes God as Light!
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4. There is one God nature.
(Deity - meaning God)
There is one human nature.
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5. One God nature - but 3 share that nature.
Father - Matthew 6:9
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6. I have one egg - but 3 parts
(use real egg/crack/show 3 parts)
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7. One human nature -
but many share that nature.
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The earth was without form
and darkness was on the face of the deep.
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And the Spirit of God was
hovering over the face of the waters.
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Then God said, (remember the Word?)
"Let there be light."
And there was light!
And God saw the light, that is was good!
(Hold up sign - Good!)
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God divided the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day
and the darkness He called Night.
So the evening and the morning
were the 1st day.
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Then God said,
"Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide
the waters from the waters."
Thus God made the firmament
and divided the waters
which were under
the firmament from the water
which were above
the firmament, and it was so.
God called the firmament Heaven.
So the evening and the
morning were the 2nd day.
(The firmament is the space or expanse
between the clouds of mist and the seas.
Water above and below.)
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Then God said,
"Let the waters under the heavens be
gathered together
into one place and let the dry land appear,
and it was so.
And God called the dry land earth
and the gathering together
of the waters He called seas.
And God saw that it was good.
(Hold up sign - Good!)
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Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth,
and no plant of the field had yet sprouted,
for the Lord God had
not sent rain upon the earth,
and there was no man to cultivate
(work up) the ground.
But a mist used to rise from the earth
and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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Then God said,
"Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb that yields seed,
and the fruit tree that yields fruit
according to it's kind,
whose seed is in itself,
on the earth, and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass,
the herb that yields seed,
according to its kind,
and the tree that yields fruit
whose see is in itself according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
(Hold up sign)
So the evening and the morning
were the 3rd day.
(The seed would be able to be planted
and would bring forth new plants.)
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Then God said,
"Let there be lights
in the firmament of the heavens
to divide the day from the night,
and let them be for signs
and seasons and for days and years.
And let them be for lights
in the firmament of the heavens
to give light on the earth."
And it was so.
God created time!!
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17. Day 4 Continued
Then God made 2 great lights.
The greater light to rule the day
and the lesser light to rule the night.
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18. Day 4 Continued
He made the stars also!
He counts the number of the stars;
He gives names to all of them.
Great is our Lord
and abundant in strength;
His understanding is infinite.
"To infinity and beyond!"
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19. Day 4 Continued
God set them (the lights)
in the firmament of the heavens
to give light on the earth
and to rule over the day and over the night
and to divide the light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good.
(Hold up sign)
So the evening and the morning
were the 4th day.
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(So far God has created light, the firmament, the sun, moon, stars, dry land, water, and trees.
Show extra pictures of planets,
comparing size, plus the Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights.)
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Then God said,
"Let the waters abound
with an abundance of living creatures
and let birds fly
above the earth across the face
of the firmament of the heavens."
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21. Day 5 Continued
So God created great sea creatures
and every living thing that moves,
with which the water abounded,
according to their kind,
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22. Day 5 Continued
...and every winged bird according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good! (Hold up sign)
And He blessed them saying,
"Be fruitful and multiply
and fill all the waters in the seas,
and let the birds multiply on the earth."
So the evening and the morning were the 5th day.
(A 24 hour day.)
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Then God said,
"Let the earth bring forth (out of the ground)
the living creature according to its kind:
Cattle, creeping thing, and beast of the earth,
(even dinosaurs)
each according to its kind."
And it was so...
And God saw that it was good!
(Hold up sign)
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Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image
according to Our likeness:
- Us
- Our
- Our
(Remember in picture #5,
the 3 that share the nature of God?
They make up the "Us" and "Our"
that is being spoken of.)
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God made mankind/humans
different from the animals.
God gave humans a living soul
that will live forever!
(Velcro/tape clear transparency shapes
from the back of page to the people
on the front of the page
to appear like a soul.)
Let them, (male and female)
have dominion (rule)
over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air,
and over cattle, over all
the earth and over
every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth."
(So humans are made above the animals.
The first man and woman were made
on the same day as the animals,
living together at the same time.)
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Genesis 2 tells us the way
God created the first man/male.
First the Lord God formed man
of the dust from the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living being.
(show dirt from ground)
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The Lord God planted a garden
toward the east, in Eden;
and there He place the man
whom He had formed.
Our of the ground
the Lord God caused to grow
every tree that is pleasing to the sight
and good for food...
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27. Day 6 Continued
...the Tree of Life also in the
midst of the garden,
and the Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil.
The man was put into the garden
to cultivate it and keep it.
The Lord God commanded the man,
saying, "From any tree of the garden
you may eat freely;
but from the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil
you shall not eat,
for in the day that you eat
from it you will surely die."
(God gave the man a job,
rules and a choice.
He gives us the same.
Have you ever suffered
consequences for not
following rules?
What was the consequences
if the man ate the forbidden fruit?)
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28. Explanation of - Surely Die
Surely die - The same day he would eat of it he would surely die.
Not physically in the same day, but spiritually.
If the man decides to disobey God,
then this disobedience/sin would come between the man and God.
When we are separated from God, (the Light) by sin, we die,
it is called spiritual death.
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29. Explanation Continued
A flower, when it is separated
from the light it needs,
it withers and dies.
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Sin is defined as missing the mark.
This disobedience/sin would be a problem between God and the man.
But God has a plan that would help this sin problem so the relationship between God and whoever sinned could be fixed.
We will learn of this plan in a later lesson.
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Then the Lord God said,
"It is not good for the man to be alone;
I will make him a helper suitable for him."
Out of the ground the Lord God
formed every beast of the field,
and every bird of the sky,
and brought them to the man
to see what he would call them;
and whatever the man called a living creature,
that was it's name.
The man gave names to all the cattle,
birds, and to every beast of the field,
but for Adam there was not a helper suitable for him.
(God named the man Adam.)
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So the Lord God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon the man,
and he slept; then He took one of his ribs
and closed up the flesh at that place.
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The Lord God fashioned into a woman,
the rib which He had taken from the man,
and brought her to the man.
The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called woman
because she was taken out of man.
(The man seemed pleased with his gift,
the woman/helper God had made for him.)
For this reason a man shall
leave his father and his mother,
and be joined to his wife;
and they shall become one flesh.
And the man and his wife
were both naked and were not ashamed.
So God created man in His own image,
in the image of God He created him.
Male and female He created them.
(This is still the 6th day.)
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Then God blessed them and God said to them,
"Be fruitful and multiply; (have children)
and fill the earth and
subdue/tame/have dominion /authority
over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air,
and over every living thing
that moves on the earth.
(Paraphrase of Vs. 29-30)
God told them
that He had given to them
herbs and fruit trees for food.
God had also given the herbs
to every beast of the earth,
birds, and creeping thing.
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I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
and that my soul knows very well.
Then God saw everything that He had made
and indeed it was VERY GOOD.
(Hold up sign)
So the evening and the morning were the 6th day.
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Thus the heavens and the earth
and all the host of them were finished.
(6 days)
And on the 7th day God ended His work
which He had done
and rested on the 7th day
from all His work which He had done.
Then God blessed the 7th day
and sanctified it/made it holy,
because in it He rested from all His work
which God had created and made.
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Extra thoughts - This 7th day - Saturday -
that God made Holy,
(set it apart from other days)
is later called the Sabbath day,
a day of rest for those who lived under
the Law of Moses/Old Law.
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