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Genesis: In the Beginning
September 16, 2017

After several weeks, last week we concluded a study of the fruit of the spirit listed by Paul in Galatians 5:22-23 most recently having studies temperance. Today we will go back to the beginning with a study of Genesis.

In the beginning it is God, the Hebrew transliterated as Elohim, Strong's 430, a plural noun used in the sense of majesty and the almighty creator, who creates. It is the Spirit of God that moved on a dark and water covered earth, until on the first day of creation, God created light. He separated day from night, evening from morning. The evening and morning made the first day, and it was good. Today we keep time from midnight to midnight; God counted days beginning with the evening. On the second day of creation, God created the atmosphere out of water, breaking the Water molecule of H₂0 into two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Today 21% of the atmosphere consists of oxygen. The creation of the atmosphere marks the completion of day two, and it was good.

Genesis 1:1-8
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

On the third day, God created land and bodies of water. Land, also called Earth allowed for various types of plants to be grown, including grasses, herbs, and fruit. The third day of creation was concluded, and God concluded that it, too, was good. On the fourth day God established the sun to provide light throughout the day, and the moon and stars to provide some light at night. In addition to providing lights, the sun, moon, and stars can be used to calculate seasons, days, and years. God also established these to provide a sign to mankind. Light was divided from darkness and the fourth day of creation was done, and also considered by God to be good..

Genesis 1:9-19
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto 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 called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon 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. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

On the fifth day, God created the animals of the sea and the birds of the air also marked as good. Then on the sixth God created the animals we see on the earth aand also created mankind. Separating mankind from animals, mankind was created after God's image and after his likeness, and in this instance the plural is used as God said, "Let us make man in our image." a plural pronoun. Mankind was given dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing on the earth. When we look at our planet; whatever fault we might see, it is our fault, because mankind was given dominion. Mankind was charged with responsible stewardship of the earth, to tame it and to replenish it.

Genesis 1:20-31
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

When God considered the sixth day of creation he ascribed a higher value to the creation on this day. For days one through five, God considered the creation on each of those days to be good. The sixth day when God created land animals and man, that day was very good and it was very good because man was intended to live on earth in God's image and likeness, living on earth as God might live on earth.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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