Day 1 – Genesis 1-3

Talking Points

• Genesis means “beginning.” We already have the beginnings of so many doctrinal truths in these chapters.
• God – It all starts with God. The Hebrew name used for God is Elohim, which is plural. We see the first inkling of the concept of our triune God. He is powerful and wise, and He is solely responsible for all creation. Also, He already tells of the Messiah, who will crush the serpent’s head.
• Timing matters. God is precise in first defining a day, “evening and morning, one day.” He is also precise in detailing the events of each day. He sets these terms.
• God describes the result of His creative work as “good.” Upon its completion, He states, “…it was all very good.” Good means no sin, no consequence of sin, no death.
• God clearly says all life replicates and reproduces “after its kind.” In fact, He uses the phrase “after its kind” ten times in the first chapter. “After its kind” would exclude reproduction by cross-species evolution, or moving from one kind to another.
• In these chapters it is clear, men and women are both created in the image of God. Man’s counterpart is in no way inferior, but actually corresponds to man as his equal opposite. We see God’s plan for marriage. Man is to be glued to his wife.
• Sin brings shame. Sin brings consequences, However, from the very start, in our sin, we see God’s grace.
  

Thoughts

“In the beginning…” — These words start the most marvelous, most profound, most astounding phenomenon imaginable — the revelation of God to mankind! How amazing that the totality of everything God wants us to know about Himself, He is about to tell us. Isn’t it almost comical the place He would start is at the beginning? Of course, it only makes sense. The foundation of the Bible, in fact the foundation of all things starts “in the beginning.” Doesn’t it also make sense — if Satan and the world want us to miss the revelation of God, they would also start by attacking the beginning? So, here we go! “In the beginning…”