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Primary Purpose of the Creation account

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  1. To exalt the eternal God who alone created the heaven and the earth.
  2. To evoke from man the worship, adoration, obedience and love which belong to God alone.
  3. To prohibit any and all superstitious views of the universe.
  4. To provide a trustworthy history of the divine activity of God in creation.
  5. To prepare for the second portion of Genesis, dealing with man’s habitancy of God’s world.
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Essential Teaching of the Creation account

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  1. The origin of the world and of life was no accident.
  2. God made everything there is.
  3. All that God made was good.
  4. The highpoint of all God’s creative acts was the making of man.
  5. Mankind is distinguished from all other creatures: made in God’s own likeness, he is given charge over all the rest.
  6. God’s six days of creative activity followed by a day of rest sets the pattern for man’s working life.
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Gen. 1:1 denies these philosophies:

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  1. Atheism: no God
  2. Polytheism: many gods
  3. Fatalism: impersonal determinism
  4. Evolution: infinite becoming
  5. Pantheism: all is God
  6. Materialism: matter is eternal
  7. Dualism: good and evil are eternal
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Days of Creation:

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Day 1: Separated light from darkness
Day 2: Separated sea and sky
Day 3: Separated land from seas
Day 4: Luminaries of day and night
Day 5: Birds and fish
Day 6: Animals and humans
Day 7: God rested
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Views on the Days of Creation:

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Literal Day View (24 hours) - terms evening and morning, numerical understanding
Day-Age View (indefinite time) - Day “yom” is used multiple ways. Gen. 2 seems to be more than 1 day.

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Views on the Date of Creation:

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Concordist Views for Young Earth: Flood Theory, Appearance of Age Theory.
Old Earth: Gap Theory, Literal-Day-with-Gaps Theory, Day-Age Theory.
Nonconcordits Interpretations: Framework Theory (days are snapshots of God’s creative work).
Analogical Days Theory (Days are God’s workdays, length is not specified or important.
Functional Cosmic Temple Theory (Days are sequential calendar days, but are the period of time devoted to the inauguration of the functions of the cosmic temple).
Days of Revelation Theory (series of statements to man about what God had done in ages past).
Theistic Evolution: God used the process of evolution to create living things, including humans.

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Lessons from History

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  1. Danger of Misinterpreting Scripture - don’t ignore scientific evidence that seems to contradict the ‘general impression’ interpretation of Genesis 1.
  2. Danger of Overestimating Science - Goal is not to seek to satisfy science.
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3 Views on humans being made in the image of God

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  1. Traditional (Substantive) View - Resemblance (who we are)
  2. Representative (Functional) View - What we do (near Eastern statues)
  3. Relational View - How we relate
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Relationship between Gen. 1 and 2

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In Subject Matter: Complementary, not contradictory

In Style: Genesis 2 is not chronological, but topical

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Purpose of the Babylonian Account of Creation (Enuma Elish)

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Written to honor Marduk, God of Babylon

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Similarites between the Genesis account and the Enuma Elish

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  1. Original mass of material was water.
  2. Two bodies of water separated by firmament.
  3. Narrative divided into seven parts.
  4. Heavens, earth, firmament created first; then celestial bodies; then man.
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Differences between the Genesis account and the Enuma Elish

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  1. EE is Polytheistic, Gen 1:1 is Monotheistic.
  2. Matter is eternal in EE, while Matter was created by God from nothing in Gen.
  3. Earth and water formed from preexisting matter in EE, in Gen., earth and water created from nothing.
  4. EE has no record of creation of vegetation, animals, birds, reptiles, fish. Gen. is a clear account of creation of all of these.
  5. In EE, man created to serve gods. In Gen., man created to rule the earth and its inhabitants.
  6. in EE, Marduk’s creative acts required great effort. God’s creative acts required only spoken word.
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Explanations of Similarities in EE and Genesis accounts

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  1. Genesis account drew from the Babylonian account.
  2. Babylonian account drew from the Genesis account.
  3. They are independent accounts that possibly go back to a common source.
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Views on the identification of the tempter

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  1. Figurative
  2. Reptile (used by Satan)
  3. Non-reptile (Satan)
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Threefold pattern of the Temptation

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  1. Lust of the Flesh
  2. Lust of the Eye
  3. The Pride of Life
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Immediate Consequences of the Fall

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  1. Experience of Sin
  2. Experience of Guilt
  3. Expulsion from Eden
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Individual Consequences of the Fall

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On the Serpent: humiliation and disgrace, hostility and defeat.
On the Woman: Suffering in childbirth, struggle in marriage.
On the Man: Sorrow in work, struggle to live
On the Ground: Cursed (separation of man from nature)

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General (universal) Effects of the Fall

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  1. Death and Disease (spiritual and physical death)
  2. Depravity
  3. Division (between man and God, man and himself, man and man, man and nature, nature and nature)
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2 Contrasting Lines in Gen. 4 and 5

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Line of Cain, Line of Seth (Seth replaces Abel)

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Possible causes of God refusing Cain’s offering

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Spirit and character of the offerers. Not blood, not best.

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First city named in Scripture

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Enoch, named after Cain’s first son

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First Polygamist

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Lamech - married two women

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Jabal, Jubal, Tubal-Cain

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Jabal - Herders/Farmers
Jubal - Musicians
Tubal-Cain - Craftsmen

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Sons of God

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  1. Cosmologically mixed marriages: Angel/Human
  2. Religiously mixed marriages: Righteous/Unrighteous
  3. Sociologically mixed marriages: King/Commoner
  4. Superstitious marriages: King/Any Woman
  5. Normal Marriages
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Arguments for a local flood

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  1. The biblical text does not demand a universal flood.
  2. The scientific evidence does not support a universal flood.
  3. The universality of flood traditions cannot be uncritically appealed to.
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Arguments for a universal flood

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  1. The biblical text supports a universal flood.
  2. The scientific evidence does not eliminate a universal flood.
  3. The universality of the traditions is strong support for a universal flood.
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3 similarities between Genesis and the Gilgamesh Epic

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  1. The deluge is divinely instigated.
  2. The boat comes to rest on a mountain.
  3. The releasing of the birds.
  4. The promise that such a flood will never occur again.
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3 differences between Genesis flood and the Gilgamesh Epic

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  1. The account is polytheistic, not monotheistic.
  2. The many gods are morally depraved, not holy.
  3. The shape of the arks is significantly different.
  4. Genesis flood is caused by man’s sin. Gilgamesh flood is caused by man making noise, disturbing the gods.
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Views on why Canaan is cursed

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  1. Two accounts
  2. Canaan was with Ham
  3. Ham was with his mother (Canaan is the offspring of incest)
  4. Noah saw that Canaan shared perversity with his father.
  5. Youngest son = Canaan
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Where did Noah’s sons settle

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  1. Japheth - Occupied N and NW of the Fertile Crescent.
  2. Ham - Occupied SW of the Fertile Crescent.
  3. Shem - Occupied the area between the Japhethites and Hamites around the Arabian subcontinent.
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The tower of Babel is probably a prototype of later:

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Ziggurats (towers which served as a place for a god whose shrine belonged on the summit).

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Numerical Symmetry in the Genealogies of Gen. 5 and 11:

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Adam to Noah includes 10 names, last, Noah has 3 sons.

Noah to Terah includes 10 names, last, Terah has 3 sons.

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Solutions for the problem of Terah’s age at his death:

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  1. Abram may have been the youngest son, but placed first because of prominence.
  2. The Samaritan text gives Terah’s age as 145 at death.
  3. Terah was only “seen as dead” by Abram.
  4. Terah was not dead when Abram left.

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