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2. CMV-101 Topic 2 Week 1 Day 2

3. Devotion

4. Announcements

5. CLC Presentations Next Week
1. Find your groups
2. Pick a Day & Topic
3. Pick an editor to proof & run spell/grammar checker

6. CLC Presentations Next Week
4. 5 POINTS for being ready (USB, Laptop, or Send me the file)
5. Give me ONE QUESTION to include on Quiz 2
6. GRADING — the final submission due Sun, Oct. 2 @ 11:59 pm

7. CLC Presentations Next Week
7. COVER SLIDE — Include Names of Contributors
8. EACH SLIDE — include name of author

8. The Trinity in Creation
CMV-101 Christian Worldview
Dr. Stan Meyer
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Ariana Busse, Casey Luttrell, Dallas Howard, Faith Garcia, Maria Del Montes, Contributors
Janelle Rossie, Editor

9. Remember Cite each slide
(Hiles, 2021, “Trinity”)

10. Get with your Groups

11. Quiz 2
Start Friday, Sept 30 @ 12 pm
DUE Sunday, Oct 2 @ 11:59 pm

12. Genesis 1-2
•Check In
•Hear
•Obey
•Share

13. How are you?
•What is one challenge you have had this week?
•What are you proudest of this week?
•What are you most looking forward to next week?

14. Hear
• The Bible is a living book
• God still wants to speak to us today
• Hearing truth transforms and sets us free

15. Re-tell the story (without looking at text)
1. Your own
words
2. Partner give
feedback

16. What do we learn about God?
• There is one God who created and rules over everything.
• Different than Ancient Near East worldview
• He is the God who reveals himself to his creation.
• God is active and present in creation
• He is orderly
• Creation is both ordered and good.
• He wants to dwell with His People
• He is good
• Reference to the Trinity

17. What do we learn about people?
• We are made in the image of God.
• The pinnacle of creation is that of humanity in the image of God. .
• Our physical bodies are important
• "We must not fall into the error of thinking that nonmaterial existence is somehow a better form of existence for creatures: when God made us as the
pinnacle of his creation, he gave us physical bodies" (Grudem, 1994, p. 613).
• We have a special relationship with God
• Humans are the only creatures that God created in his image and that God breathed the breath of life into (Genesis 2:7).
• We were made for relationship with God.
• Work is still something that humanity is created to do.
• Work is an important part of the Christian life and the Christian witness.
• It is not good for us to be alone

18. Implications
• Orderliness:
• There are proper functions
and relationships for
everything
• Challenging Culture:
• All those other ancient Near
Eastern "gods" are really not
gods at all.
• Human Worth:
• Human dignity is derived from
who we are as image bearers.

19. Command to Obey?
Example to Follow?

20. Is there a command to obey or example to
follow?
• Dominion over the earth.
• Serve and keep the garden
• Priests and Kingly figures
• Rest
• God rested on the 7th day.
• Be in relationship with God
• Humanities original design

21. This week I will…..
•Rest by__________
•Care for creation by ___________
•Care for my body by ___________
•Honor my work/job by _________

22. Share
Who can I share
with this week?

24. Topic 1, Week 2, Day 4
What is Revelation

25. Definition of Revelation
God’s divine self-disclosure to men & women
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-revelation/

26. Types of Revelation
1. General Revelation
2. Special Revelation

27. General Revelation
The means God has used to reveal himself
universally to humanity through nature, history,
science, and reasoning.
Hiles, 2021, “General Revelation”

28. Types of General Revelation
1. External
2. Internal

29. External General Revelation
What can be known about God is plain to people,
because God has shown it to them. For his invisible
attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature,
have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the
world, in the things that have been made. So they are
without excuse. (Rom 1:19–20 ESV)

30. What are examples of external
general revelation?

31. Internal General Revelation
Therefore you have no excuse…every one of you who
judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn
yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same
thing
(Rom 2:1 ESV)

32. Internal General Revelation
For when Gentiles, who do not have the Scriptures, by
nature do what the law requires, they are a law to
themselves, even though they do not have the law. They
show that the work of the law is written on their hearts,
while their conscience also bears witness
(Rom 2:14–15 ESV)

34. Special Revelation
The means God has used to reveal himself
speci
fi
cally to people through the Bible, the
person of Jesus Christ, and to individuals as
they seek him in prayer and devotion
Hiles, 2021, “Special Revelation”

35. Special Revelation
1. Scriptures
2. The Person of Jesus
3. God speaks to each one of us

36. Describe a time that God
answered prayer, or spoke to you
personally?

37. Trinity in the Creation Story

38. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
earth. The earth was without form and void, and
darkness was over the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the
waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and
there was light.
(Genesis 1:1–3 ESV)

39. The Father
In the Beginning God…
B’reishit Bara’ Elohim…

40. The Father
Elohim
God (the Father)

41. The Spirit of God
The Spirit of God was hovering…
V’ruach Elohim merachefet…

42. The Spirit of God
Spirit of God
Ruach Elohim

43. The Son
And God spoke…
Vayomer Elohim…

44. The Son
Spoke [the word…]
The Word of God

45. In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God and the Word was
God
John 1:1, ESV

46. WORD
LOGOS

47. Trinity in the Creation Story
• Father — In the beginning God
• Son — God spoke [the Word]
• Spirit — Spirit of God hovered

48. God Created Ex Nihilo

49. Ex-nihilo
•Out of nothing
•No pre-existing material

50. Created
•Bara’ — To create (out of nothing)
•Yotzer — To form (out of something)

53. Imago Dei Image of God

54. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness. (Gen 1:26 ESV)

55. ‫—אדם‬ADAM — MAN

56. Does “Adam” mean male
humans?

57. So God created ADAM in his own image, in the image of
God he created them; male and female he created them.
(Gen 1:27 ESV)

58. ADAM in this verse refers to HUMANS
Humans, male & female created in the Image of God

59. GROUP:
What qualities of God do humans have?

60. First Commands God Gave

61. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful
and multiply and
fi
ll the earth and subdue it, and have
dominion over the
fi
sh of the sea and over the birds of the
heavens and over every living thing that moves on the
earth.” (Gen 1:28 ESV)
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of
Eden to work it and keep it. (Gen 2:15 ESV)

62. What instructions did God give men &
women in the very beginning?

63. Avodah — to serve it, or maintain
Shomer — to guard, or take care of it

64. What responsibility did God give
the human race?