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GENESIS – THE CREATOR OF DESTINY. IN THE BEGINNING. Hebrew book title John’s Gospel The Bible The story of Redemption Paradise lost and paradise regained Genesis 12 stories/chapters Quotations in the New Testament. SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE. Science What/when/how? The Bible Who/why?
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IN THE BEGINNING • Hebrew book title • John’s Gospel • The Bible • The story of Redemption • Paradise lost and paradise regained • Genesis • 12 stories/chapters • Quotations in the New Testament
SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE • Science • What/when/how? • The Bible • Who/why? • Biblical authority • Scientific validity • No final conflict
KEY ISSUES • Place • where on earth are we? • Time • is there a contradiction? • Eons of time • Six days
CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DAYS • Augustine – angelic days • Creation research view • Gap theory • Days of revelation • Geological ages • 24 hour days followed by geological ages • Apologetic system to attack pagan creation myths • Days are poetical, sets a pattern for worship • The days are a literary device
EVOLUTIONARY THEORY • Fossil record • Genetic history • Law of thermodynamics • Absence of links and facts • Complexity • Physics, Geology, Biology, Cosmology, Astronomy, Genetics, Theology… • Nothing Science has proved contradicts the Bible
WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT GOD? • Personal • Powerful • Purposeful • Plural
THE WORLD • An ordered world • result of choice and design • not chance • A cosmos, not a chaos
WHAT WE LEARN ABOUT MANKIND? • Man the climax of God’s creative activity • Man made in the image of God • Thinks feels and makes moral choices • Man’s purpose • Multiply and fill the earth • Subdue the earth • dominion
SABBATH REST • Creation ordinance • French revolution • WW2