Creation Evangelism in the coming Culture

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Creation Evangelism in the coming Culture

• A challenge to the Church to help her prepare
  for effective witness in the coming 21st Century
  Western Worldview

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OUTLINE

• P a r t 1
• Who wrote the Bible?
• What does the Bible teach about Creation?
• P a r t 2
• Battle of the Worldviews - Past
• Battle of the Worldviews - Present
• Battle of the Worldviews Soon!
• Creation will be vital to evangelism

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PART 1
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Our Thinking
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THE 1st 5!
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THE FIRST 5 BOOKS

• Torah
• Pentateuch
• Ex199The Lord said to Moses, I am going to come
  to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will
  hear me speaking with you and will always put
  their trust in you.
• Who wrote it?
• Moses

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Who wrote the Bible?

• Particularly the 1st 5 Books?

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THE FIRST 5 BOOKS

• Moses overall on Sinai (Arabia!)
• 40 days and 40 nights
• BUT he had some earlier material!
• Toledoths reveal who had written earlier!

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TOLEDOTHS !?

• Ancient postscripts
  Histories / origins
• The 1st section of Genesis ends at
• Gen. 24 This is the history of the heavens and
  the Earth when they were created, in the day that
  the LORD God made the Earth and the heavens
• John 86 wrote on the ground with His finger
• The 2nd section of Genesis ends at
• Gen 51 This is the written account of Adams
  line.

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GENESIS 1 - 3

• Origins?
• Only eye witness
• God Himself
• ..to Adam
• ..to Moses compiled on Mount Sinai

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What does the Bible teach about Creation?

• What does the text tell us?

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WHERE TO START?

• The Ten Commandments
• 2 Tablets of Stone
• Finger of God
  Exodus 3118 written with the finger
  of God
• 4th Commandment
• One day in every seven
• Make it Holy (Set Apart)
• Why?

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4th COMMANDMENT

• Ex 2011 cf Ex 209
• For in six days the LORD made the Heavens and the
  Earth, the sea and all that is in them, but He
  rested on the seventh day.
• Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and
  made it holy

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WHAT DOES DAY MEAN?

• In this context
• Can only mean one thing.
• 24 hours!
• God has told us himself!
• We now know what day means in Genesis 1 3!

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Q 709 Stoner
Christians are often inclined to take the
young-earth position simply because it appears to
be the plainest reading of the Bible.
A New Look at an Old Earth, Don Stoner, Harvest
House Publishers, Pg. 32-33, 37.
Q 709
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Q 227a Luther
How long did the work of Creation take? When
Moses writes that God created heaven and earth
and whatever is in them in six days, then let
this period continue to have been six days, and
do not venture to devise any comment according to
which six days were one day. But, if you cannot
understand how this could have been done in six
days, then grant the Holy Spirit the honor of
being more learned than you are.
What Martin Luther Says - A Practical In-Home
Anthology for the Active, p. 1523
Q 227a
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Q 227b Luther
For you are to deal with Scripture in such a way
that you bear in mind that God Himself says what
is written. But since God is speaking, it is not
fitting for you wantonly to turn His Word in the
direction you wish to go.
What Martin Luther Says - A Practical In-Home
Anthology for the Active, p. 1523
Q 227b
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IN A NUTSHELL
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• Then God saw everything that He had made, and
  indeed it was very good. So the evening and the
  morning were the sixth day

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THEN SOMETHING WENT WRONG
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Biblical History Mans Actions to Death
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CONCLUSIONS

• God created everything
• He chose to carry out His design installation
  in six days
• These days are the days He uses to mark time
  today
• When He had finished - it was all very good
• He then rested on the seventh day
• Then the first man sinned and everything was
  changed and Death began

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DECISION TIME!

• Do you believe the Bible is true?
• Can God be trusted?
• This decision effects everything else!
• The Lord has PRIMARILY revealed Himself in the
  Bible
• This is how He approaches the Bible

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Our Thinking
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ANY QUESTIONS?

• What do you think?