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Book of Genesis

Part 1

 

Chapter 3

Genesis 1:1

 

C. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God ______________ the heaven and the earth.”

 

Note:  Some people claim to believe in God, but they categorize the account of creation in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 as a myth.  The word myth means, “a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence” (Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary).

 

That is strange that some people, who claim to be Christians, regard the account of creation in

Genesis chapters 1 and 2 as a MYTH — because Jesus referred back to creation as a FACT.

 

        1. Matthew 19:3-6 says, “The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which _______ them at the __________________ made them ________ and ____________,  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

 

Note:  Jesus referred back to Genesis, and said that in the beginning God created them male and female.

 

God created a MALE—not a one-celled organism that eventually formed into a man.

God created a FEMALE—not a one-celled organism that eventually formed into a woman.

 

Jesus referred back to the creation account in Genesis as a fact —not as a myth.  And those facts are so important, that Jesus taught we should govern our lives and marriages according to those facts of creation: one man, for one woman, for life.

 

The word theory  means, “an unproved assumption”(Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary).

That means that the Theory of EVOLUTION is, by definition, NOT REAL SCIENCE.

The word science  means, “knowledge, as distinguished

from ignorance or misunderstanding”

(Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary).

 

Evolution is a theory (an unproven assumption), but because sinful man does not want to answer to God, he will stoop to lies and deception to try and convince people of his theory.

 

The “Piltdown Man” hoax.

 

“For decades, a fossil skull discovered in Piltdown, England, was hailed as the missing link between apes and humans.  Entire careers were built on its authenticity.  Then in 1953, the awful truth came out: ‘Piltdown Man’ was a fake!” (Nova Science, PBS Broadcast, May 30, 2006).  Everyone ought to take special note of this, when even liberal, public broadcasting admits that Piltdown Man was a fake.

In the early 1900’s a piece of a skull was unearthed by a laborer,

and was passed on to a local, amateur archeologist, by the name of Charles Dawson.  He showed it to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum, and they both presented it to the public in December of 1912, as a “missing link” between man and animals.  In 1953, the skull was scientifically shown to be a hoax by scientist Kenneth Oakley (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hoax/). 

Stop and think.  Piltdown Man was shown to be a fake way back in 1953.  Why, then, is it still being presented in science textbooks in public schools as a fact or proof of evolution?  Are there no teachers who have done any research in the fields that they are teaching?  Why are the children being taught lies to try and prove evolution?

 

The “Neanderthal Man” hoax.

 

A fossil (later called Neanderthal Man) was found in a peat bog near Hamburg, Germany.  Professor Reiner Protsch was invited to date the skull.  He conveniently dated it at 36,000-years-old, exactly what the evolutionists needed as proof of a missing link between animals and man.

“On February 18, 2005, Protsch was forced to retire in disgrace after a Frankfurt University panel ruled he had ‘fabricated data…’” (The “Dating Disaster” of Neanderthal Man, Brad Harrub, Ph.D.). 

The fabrication was discovered when scientists at Oxford were doing rechecks of fossil dating.  Thomas Terberger was the archeologist who discovered the hoax of the Neanderthal dating.

Stop and think.  Neanderthal Man was shown to be a fake in 2005.  Why, then, is it still being presented in science textbooks in public schools as a fact or proof of evolution?  Are there no teachers who have done any research in the fields that they are teaching?  Why are the children being taught lies to try and prove evolution?

 

The “Lucy” hoax.

 

In 1974, a partial skeleton was found in Ethiopia, and designated as, Lucy.  “Though evolutionists admit that the creature had an ape’s head and brain, and ape-like arms and hands, and no speech capacity, it is alleged that it walked uprightly, which was ‘the first step toward becoming human’” (The Lucy Hoax, David Cloud, fbns@wayoflife.org). 

A meeting of anthropologists gathered [in August 2009] at the Institute of Human Origins in New York to consider Lucy, and a report in the New York Times made the following interesting

conclusion: “The debate over whether the primate Lucy actually stood up on two feet... thus becoming one of mankind’s most important ancestors—has evolved into two interpretive viewpoints, three family trees, spats over four scientific techniques and too many personality clashes to count.  The long and short of it is, according to a participant, that bipedality lies in the eye of the beholder” (Did Lucy Actually Stand on Her Own Two Feet? New York Times, Aug. 29, 2009, as reported in The Lucy Hoax).

As for Lucy’s feet and hands, Dr. Randall Susman and Dr. Jack Stern described them as “showing a retention of grasping tendencies with long and curved digits” (Did Lucy Actually Stand on Her Own Two Feet? New York Times, Aug. 29, 2009, as reported in The Lucy Hoax).  

Stop and think.  If the liberal New York Times is willing to admit that there is a problem with Lucy walking uprightly and being a missing link—then you know that there is a problem!  If people were not willingly blind to the truth, then they could see that Lucy is but another hoax.  There is no scientific proof that Lucy walked uprightly like humans, but clear physical proof that she was using her feet and hands to climb around in the trees.

Why, then, is Lucy still being presented in science textbooks in public schools as a fact or proof of evolution?  Are there no teachers who have done any research in the fields that they are teaching?  Why are the children being taught lies to try and prove evolution?

 

2.   2 Peter 3:3-5 says, “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days ________________, walking after their own lusts,  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  For this they __________________ are ________________ of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.”

 

Note:  Remember, the theory of evolution is “an unproved assumption.”  Praise the Lord that we have something that is sure!

 

3.  2 Peter 1:19-21 says, “We have also a more ________ word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the __________________ is of any private interpretation.  For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

 

Note:  Believe the Bible.  True, honest research will always show the Bible to be true.  Reject evolution for what it is—false science.

 

        4.  1 Timothy 6:20 says, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of ______________   ______________ so called.”

 

A foundational doctrine of the faith is that God created the heaven and the earth and all that is on it.

If you take away that doctrine, then you take away the basic reason why we must answer to God one day.

 

Note:  If God did not create us, but just stepped in later to take over control of us, then He would be no different than any dictator upon the earth.  If that were the case, then rebellion against Him and freedom from His rule could be justified.  That is how important it is to stand firm for the doctrine that God created the heaven and the earth, and all life upon it.

 

5. Romans 1:25 says, “Who changed the __________ of God into a ______, and worshipped and served the ________________ more than the ______________, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

 

That is the sum total of evolution: worshipping the creature (saying that we came from animals),

instead of worshipping the Creator  (acknowledging that we came from God).

 

6. Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created ______ in his own image, in the __________ of ______ created he him; male and female created he them.”

 

Some professing Christians were afraid that if they acknowledged that they believed the Biblical account

of creation in Genesis, that they would then look ignorant and foolish in the eyes of scientists.  So what those

people did was mix evolution and creation together.  This mixing came to be known as Theistic Evolution.

 

Note:  The word theism means, “belief in the existence of one God” (Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary).

Theistic Evolution teaches that God created matter, and then just let evolution form everything over millions and billions of years.

 

        7. Remember the verses that we just looked at?  1 Timothy 6:20-21 say, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and OPPOSITIONS OF SCIENCE FALSELY SO CALLED:  Which some ____________________ have __________ concerning the __________. Grace be with thee. Amen.”

 

If you cannot believe God as to how everything STARTED in this universe,

then how can you believe Him as to how everything is going to END?

 

8. Jesus said in John 3:12, “If I have told you ______________ things, and ye believe ______, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of ________________ things?”

9. Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without __________ it is ____________________ to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

 

Note:  Why would God create matter, and then use a painfully slow system of mutations (evolution) to form His creatures?  That would be cruel.

 

Why reject the truth of God’s Word, to then believe a theory that cannot even explain how matter  came to be?

 

Evolution says that a ball of matter exploded (the big bang), but they do not know from where that matter came, nor from where the energy came to get it spinning or to make it explode.

 

The Bible tells us how matter  came into existence.

 

10. Hebrews 11:3 says, “Through faith we understand that the ____________ were framed by the ________ of God, so that things which are ________ were not made of things which do ____________.”

11. Psalm 33:6 says, “By the ________ of the LORD were the heavens ________; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.”

12. Psalm 33:9 says, “For he __________, and it was ________; he commanded, and it stood fast.”

 

That verse tells us how long it took God to create matter—it was instant.  God spoke, and it was done.

That one verse alone, proves the idea of Theistic Evolution to be wrong.

 

Review:

 1. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God ______________ the heaven and the earth.”

 2. That is strange that some people, who claim to believe in God, go on to regard the account of creation in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 as a myth, because Jesus referred back to creation as a ________.

 3. God created a ________—not a one-celled organism that eventually formed into a man.  God created a ____________—not a one-celled organism that eventually formed into a woman.

4. The theory of evolution is not real science.  The word theory means, “an ________________ assumption.”

5. The word science means, “__________________ as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding.”

6.   1 Timothy 6:20 says, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of ______________   ______________ so called.”

7. A foundational doctrine of the faith is that God created the heaven and the earth and all that is on it.  If you take away that doctrine, then you take away the basic reason why we must ____________ to God one day.

8. Romans 1:25 says, “Who changed the truth of God into a ______, and worshipped and served the ________________ more than the ______________, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

9. That is the sum total of evolution: worshipping the creature (saying that we came from ______________), instead of worshipping the Creator (saying that we came from ______).

10. Some professing Christians were afraid that if they acknowledged that they believed in the Genesis account of creation, that they would then look ignorant and foolish in the eyes of scientists.  So what those people did was mix evolution and creation together.  Their mixing came to be known as “________________ Evolution.”  They taught that God created matter, and then just let evolution form everything over millions and billions of years.

11. If you cannot believe God as to how everything started in this universe, then how can you believe Him as to how everything is going to ______?

12. Jesus said in John 3:12, “If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of ________________ things?”

13. The Bible tells us how matter came into existence.  Hebrews 11:3 says, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the ________ of God, so that things which are ________ were not made of  

things which do ____________.”

14. Psalms 33:6 says, “By the ________ of the LORD were the heavens ________; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.”

15. Psalms 33:9 says, “For he __________, and it was ________; he commanded, and it stood fast.”

16. That verse tells us how long it took God to create matter.  It was ______________.  He spoke, and it was ________.  That one verse  alone proves the idea of Theistic Evolution to be wrong.

  

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