Gen. 1,2 & Luke 1

These first 2 chapters of Genesis set the stage for the entire Bible. These chapters answer many of the questions people have about life on planet earth. It goes like this: God creates the earth, man corrupts the earth with sin, God promises to redeem the earth.

It starts with God, who creates it all. It is said if you can believe the first verse you can believe the rest of the Bible. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Don’t get hung up on the creation particulars. You can believe every word in the creation story but the creation story doesn’t give us the details. It is a summary of creation. There are several theories about the details.
Literal 7 day creation between 7 to 10 thousand years ago. This view says the sciences have it all wrong. Some believe that the speed of light has changed and what looks like a 14 billion year universe is not what it appears. It’s the literal 7 day creation theory.
The day age theory. Is the view that since there was no such thing as a 24 hour day until the fourth day of creation at the formation of the Sun and moon. So the days are actually time periods like we would say in my day or in Noah’s day. These time periods could have been millions of years.
The age theory believes God created the world in 7 days but he built age in the creation. It goes something like this. When God created Adam and Eve he didn’t create them as an embryo but as an adult so there is age in the creation. The age old question did Adam have a belly button. Did the trees created have rings in their trunk. Did the light of stars millions of light years away instantly appear even though it would have taken millions of years to reach earth. This view believes God simply created age in the creation.
The Gap theory has been a view many have taken. The gap view asserts that there is a time gap between the first part of Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The idea is that when the scripture says 1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. From this point the idea is there is a time gap from the original creation to the fall of Satan and the earth becomes fallen without form and void.
2 The earth was without form, and void;”
and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”

The point being don’t let the real message be confused by the critics. Something even science is starting to admit. In the beginning God.

When Adam and Eve fell all of creation suffered. Sin entered the world through the human race. I know Satan had already sinned but God had given authority over creation to Adam and when Adam submitted his authority to Satan, he gave authority to the kingdom of darkness, and the curse came. But God in the same breath that he pronounced the curse also pronounced the promise of redemption.

The redemption promise is summarized in chapter 3 verse 15 while pronouncing the curse on the serpent “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” Jesus did crush the serpents head on the Cross fulfilling the promise.

Pastor Rick