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

Since to all Christians the Bible is the truth, we can safely say that the story of creation is not a myth, a fairy tale or a story of fantasy. The world did not come around from a Bing Bang as the scientists claim. The world was formed from the awesome potter in the sky, the Lord God.

Even hundreds of years after man first inhabited the world, King David acknowledges the creation of the world to the hands of God. In Psalm 19:1-4, (KJV) he wrote:

1. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

3. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

4. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.

Some will argue that the Old Testament is inaccurate since many of the stories were spoken and handed down from generation to generation. The original stories may be distorted, that when men learned how to write, the stories may be totally different from the original ones. However, take a look at several verses from the New Testament. These are living proof-supporting documentation that God created the world:

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything that was made. (KJV)

Romans 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as thou they were. (KJV)

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Of the three above verses, the first one is the only one that talks about the beginning of the earth and the universe. However, it is not the beginning of God, He is eternal. He has always been here.

If God is eternal then why isn't Heaven eternal?

Heaven is eternal. The heaven that Christians will eventually go to live for eternity is actually the third heaven as stated in 2 Corinthians 12:2.

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth such a one caught up to the third heaven (KJV).

The heaven that God created is the air, sky and entire universe.

Reference:

The Holy Bible (King James Version)

Genesis is the book of beginnings-creation, man, marriage, sin, and civilizations. This is the beginning of God’s Word.

The first eleven chapters cover four major events: creation, the fall of man, the flood and the creation of the nations through the confusion of the languages at the Tower of Babel. The remainder of the book centers around four major characters: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) and Joseph.

Read Genesis 3:1-15; Romans 5:12; 3:10-12; and Isaiah 53:6 and answer the following questions: What did you learn about these verses about sin? What would you say sin is? List other verses that define sin.

Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers, he will crush you head and you will strike his heel.”

From the above sin is doing whatever God tells you not to do. God gave Adam and Eve a direct order not to eat the fruit. However, the serpent convinced Eve that it would be all right. Even though she was tricked, she sinned. Adam sinned because he knew God’s order. However, he listened to Eve. Even though she was innocent and not trying to trick Adam, she sinned.

Romans 5:12 “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned-for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.”

God intended that man would live forever, but then Adam sinned. God made laws-the ten commandments,

Laws of Moses, the Bible-so people would know what is wrong and obey them.

Romans 3:10-12 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

We are not perfect or sinless, God understands but we have to understand also. We can not get into Heaven by thinking we are like God.

Isaiah 53:6 “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

Without God, we are nothing. We get busy in our lives, we tend to forget about God and why we are in this world in the first place.

What did you learn from Genesis and the other verses about the consequences of sin?

If a person sins, even if nobody else sees the sin, God sees it. A person can not sin and get away without paying

consequences. Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden for sinning. The serpent was cursed for causing Adam and Eve to sin. Cain was cursed for killing Abel. Some examples in today’s society are a person taking drugs and getting addicted to them, a woman who has an abortion and has to live with a memory of a child she killed, a person making a wrong choice in life and wondering what life would be if he made a different choice.

If the root of sin is “turning your own way” what would the fruit of such a lifestyle be?

We must rely on God for the decisions we make in our day-to-day life. If we become successful because of Shady dealings, it will catch up to us. Some shady examples may be like drug dealing, tax invasion or gambling. Some people may get rich these way-and may never get caught such as drug dealing and tax invasion. But where will that person be if he does not come to the Lord to be saved.

Who or what would you say governs your life? How do you know? Why?

This is difficult. Some days I get so caught up with work, family and school that I put God on the back burner. When he is on the back burner, sin can govern my life. I get tied up in the web of sin. However, on the days I have God with me, God is protecting me and it is easier to recognize sin. I realize that God is always with me, that I turn my back on him.

How do the truths of Genesis 1-5 compare with things you have been taught by others? Who are you going to believe?

I will believe the Bible. I learned some about evolution in school. However, I wasn’t a good student-I really did not pay attention in class. How I graduated is a mystery to me. Maybe it was a good thing I did not pay attention in school.

Have you recognized that you are a sinner and that there is only One who can grant you forgiveness of sins and set you free from slavery to sin? It is the Lord Jesus Christ, the seed of the woman who bruised the serpent’s head.