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God/Father of Those Who Fear Him.

Lesson Two: by turtle

This week lesson we be talking about God our Creator. When in college I study many different
things as well as talked to many different people. The only people I found that did not believe in a
Creator was those that were atheist. Most people no matter the faith in general believe in a
Creator. In a God the made the universe and all living things. Even those who did not practice
religion or believe God was a personal God believed in a creator. This still surprises me considering
I grew up in the era that evolution was taught heavily in school. Now on the internet there seems to
be more atheist then Christian or even people who believe in a creator. It seems our world is
becoming more and more doubters of faith. Though I am only a follower of Christ and not other
religions I believe in God has being our Creator. So basically today your decision is whether or not
do you to believe God created the universe or not. If you believe God created the universe do you
believe the Biblical account of creation.

Many Christians have many different theories on creation. My stance is not to change your view of
how God could of done such a large task but bring out the fact the God created. Despite all the
Christian theories out there one fact seems to remain and that is God created. So what did God
create and what does the Bible say about creation. This may take several lessons.

Psalms 8:3-9 KJV
(3) When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast
ordained;
(4) What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
(5) For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and
honour.
(6) Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under
his feet:
(7) All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
(8) The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the
seas.
(9) O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Many perhaps would of thought I would start in Genesis. And we will get there. But sometimes
viewing other scriptures enhances the beauty of what God did in the beginning. First thing I
remember as a child is being taught that Jesus is Lord. The second thing I remember is being
taught is God created. God created me. Boy to be able to go back to the child like innocents of
youth and take everything taught at face value and not questioning what God can do. First and for
most it is important to understand God created every human being has equals. He put people over
all living creatures. We has humans have a responsibly to care for God's creation. God design us
to be care takers of his work. But before He created us he created everything else.

Genesis 1:1-2 KJV
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(2) 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.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Keyword is God created. God created the
universe. Water cover the earth and it was dark and there was no light. God created light.

Genesis 1:3-5 KJV
(3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
(4) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
(5) And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.

Hard to imagine the entire earth without some form of light. But that is exactly how it was until
God created light. God called the light Day and the darkness he called night. This is the first day
of creation.

Genesis 1:6-8 KJV
(6) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters
from the waters.
(7) 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.
(8) And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

God then divide the water from water by putting expansion between the heavens and the earth.
There was no land until God created it. There was water above and well as below. Some scholars
picture the heavens as being water with water being separated from the sky to the ground. Kind of
like being in a bubble and not space being in between the water of the bubble. Other scholars
disagree and believe the water above was rain or moisture in the atmosphere. Truth is scholars may
argue the point but it does not change the fact God created. And if we let every little opinion to
cause a wedge in the one fact we can agree on then Satan has won. This was creation of the second
day.

Genesis 1:9-13 KJV
(9) 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.
(10) And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was good.
(11) 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.
(12) 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.
(13) And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Now God created land and grace and all herbs and fruit trees. So God created land and things to
eat. God order of creation is brilliant if one thinks about it. There must be food before animals.
There must be water and light to help things grow before plants. This is the end of the third day.

Genesis 1:14-19 KJV
(14) 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:
(15) And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it
was so.
(16) 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.
(17) And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
(18) 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.
(19) And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Then God made day and night. I often wonder why God created day and night later. But there
needed to be a division between darkness and light. And not only did He divide it he gave night a
light as well to be able to see within that darkness. He gave light of day the sun and the light of the
night he made the moon and stars to see by. So God made day and night and did not leave his
creation in total darkness without light of some kind. This was the end of the fourth day.

Genesis 1:20-23 KJV
(20) 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.
(21) 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.
(22) And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
fowl multiply in the earth.
(23) And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

I often look at the fifth day and wonder did evolutionist steal from the Bible. God created the
creatures of the sea and all the birds of the air. Evolution would like to think they came up with the
idea that sea animals were first creatures to be made. Sounds like Bible to me. The problem with
evolutions they have a problem with the idea that God spoke the word and it happened. Though
science can prove that things do evolve to some degree, they however can not prove a tadpole
became a bird or some other living creature, for it does not still happen today. We can not cross a
monkey with a cat and get a monkey cat and we can not cross a dog with a cat and get a cat dog
except in cartoons. But we can take two different breeds of dogs and get some type of mixed dog.
And I have yet to see a fish and bird mate and create and fish bird. Though a platypus might be a
questionable animal. Simple fact is God created different species and animals that could not cross
breed. In other words can not support some of the evolution theories. This was the end of the fifth
day.

Genesis 1:24-31 KJV
(24) 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.
(25) 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.
(26) 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.
(27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them.
(28) 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.
(29) 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.
(30) 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.
(31) 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.

Then God created the rest of the animals and also made man. We get more into the study of God
creating man next week. But what we understand is God created. God created all living. These are
things man can not reproduce with out God given ability. Even those you are studying cloning are
still having to deal with the fact they can not create another living thing with out a beginning base
called DNA which God created. Man can not create a cell or a living organism with out DNA. God
however spoke the word and the world was created.

Next week we will get into God creating man as well as what it means to be created in God image
and a little bit more about God being creator.