The document summarizes key details from Genesis chapters 1 and 2 about God's creation of the heavens, earth, plants, animals, man, and woman. It also provides many references from other books of the Bible that allude to or directly reference details from the Genesis creation accounts, showing they were considered literal and historically true. The document emphasizes that correctly understanding humanity's origins as described in Genesis has important implications for who we are, why we exist, and what hope we can have.

1. Lesson 4

2. “In the beginning God
created the heavens
and the earth”
Genesis 1:1
Key Text
2

3. We find two apparently
different creation
stories in Genesis 1:1 to
2:3 and Genesis 2:4-25.
The second story
explains that
everything God
created (heaven,
earth, vegetables,
animals and even
Sabbath) was
created for man. We
were created to live
forever joyful in
fellowship with God
and our neighbors.
If we carefully study
those stories we may
find out that the first
one is a general story
of the creation of the
world; the second
one explains some
details about the
creation of man.

4. Genesis 2:4-6 summarizes the first 5 days of Creation. It emphasizes the creation of
plants and the atmospheric conditions that made life on Earth possible. Genesis 2:7-25
add details about the sixth day of Creation that were not told in the first story.
God creates
Adam (Gn. 2:7)
He creates and
furnishes a
home for
Adam, the
garden of Eden
(Gn. 2:8-15)
He teaches
Adam the basic
moral laws that
will rule his life
(Gn. 2:16-17)
He creates
animals to live
with man
(Gn. 2:18-20)
He creates the
woman. Adam
and Eve
become “one
flesh”
(Gn. 2:21-25)
Genesis 2:4-25 details the story in Genesis 1, “So God created man in His own image; in
the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Gn. 1:27)

5. We find direct and oblique references to the story of Creation in the entire Bible.
The biblical authors considered that story to be true and literal. They were based on
it when building greater arguments. Let’s study some references of creation
throughout the entire Bible. We’ll order them by each day of Creation.

6. “The world and all its fullness, You have founded them” (Psalm 89:11)
“I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who
stretches out the heavens all alone, Who
spreads abroad the earth by Myself” (Is. 44:24)
“Thus says God the Lord, Who created the
heavens and stretched them out” (Is. 42:5)
“For thus says the Lord, Who created the
heavens, Who is God, Who formed the
earth and made it, Who has established
it, Who did not create it in vain, Who
formed it to be inhabited: “I am the
Lord, and there is no other.”” (Is. 45:18)
“He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His
wisdom, and stretched out the heaven by His understanding” (Jer. 51:15)
“Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power
and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You” (Jer. 32:17)

7. “who created heaven and the things that
are in it, the earth and the things that are in
it, and the sea and the things that are in it”
(Rev. 10:6)
“worship Him who made heaven and
earth, the sea and springs of water” (Rev.
“I fear the Lord, the God of
heaven, who made the sea
and the dry land” (Jon. 1:9)
“God, who
made the
world and
everything
in it” (Acts
17:24)
“For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not
been since the beginning of the creation which God created
until this time” (Mr. 13:19)“All things were made
through Him, and
without Him nothing
was made that was
made” (John 1:3)
“You created all things, and by
Your will they exist and were
created” (Rev. 4:11)

8. “You who laid the foundations of the earth, so
that it should not be moved forever, You covered
it with the deep as with a garment; the waters
stood above the mountains” (Psalm 104:5-6)
GENESIS 1:1-2
“Where were you
when I laid the
foundations of the
earth?” (Job 38:4)
“the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth” (Zec. 12:1)
“by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing
out of water and in the water” (2P. 3:5)

9. “Who cover Yourself with light as
with a garment” (Psalm 104:2)
“Where is the way to the dwelling of light?
And darkness, where is its place?” (Job
38:19)
“He who makes the morning darkness, Who
treads the high places of the earth—the Lord
God of hosts is His name” (Am. 4:13)
“God who commanded light to shine
out of darkness” (2Co. 4:6)
Genesis 1:3-5

10. “Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain” (Psalm 104:2)
“He who… creates the wind… The Lord
God of hosts is His name” (Am. 4:13)
Genesis 1:6-8

11. “At Your rebuke they *the waters+
fled; at the voice of Your thunder they
hastened away. They went up over
the mountains; they went down into
the valleys, to the place which You
founded for them. You have set a
boundary that they may not pass
over, that they may not return to
cover the earth” (Psalm 104:7-9)
“He causes the grass to grow for
the cattle, and vegetation for the
service of man” (Psalm 104:14)
“For He has founded it *the dry land+
upon the seas, and established it
upon the waters” (Psalm 24:2)
“You have set all the borders of the earth” (Psalm 74:17)
“When I fixed My limit for it *the
sea], and set bars and doors; When
I said, ‘This far you may come, but
no farther, and here your proud
waves must stop!’” (Job 38:10-11)
“He who forms mountains… The Lord
God of hosts is His name” (Am. 4:13)
Genesis 1:9-13

12. “When I consider Your
heavens, the work of Your
fingers, the moon and the
stars, which You have ordained”
(Psalm 8:3)
“He appointed the
moon for seasons;
the sun knows its
going down”
(Psalm 104:19)
“By the word of the Lord the heavens
were made, and all the host of them by
the breath of His mouth” (Psalm 33:6)
“The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and the sun…
You have made summer and winter”
(Psalm 74:16-17)
“Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
and caused the dawn to know its place?” (Job 38:12)
“I—My hands—stretched out the heavens, and
all their host I have commanded” (Is. 45:12)
THE FOURTH DAY
Genesis 1:14-19

13. “There is that Leviathan
which You have made to
play there *in the sea+”
(Psalm 104:26)
Genesis 1:20-23

14. “You have made him *man+ to have dominion over the
works of Your hands; You have put all things under his
feet” (Psalm 8:6)
“I have made the earth, and
created man on it” (Is. 45:12)
“I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My
great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed
proper to Me” (Jer. 27:5)
“the Lord… forms the
spirit of man within him”
(Zec. 12:1)
“He has made from
one blood every
nation of men”
(Acts 17:26)
“And He answered and said to them, “Have
you not read that He who made them at the
beginning ‘made them male and female,’
and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave
his father and mother and be joined to his
wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?”
(Mt. 19:4-5)
“The first man Adam became a
living being” (1Co. 15:45)
“For “the two,” He says, “shall
become one flesh.”” (1Co. 6:16)
“For this reason a man shall leave his father
and mother and be joined to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh” (Eph. 5:31)
“men, who have been made in the
similitude of God” (James 3:9)
Genesis 1:24-31
Genesis 2:7-25

15. “And He said to
them, “The Sabbath was
made for man, and not
man for the Sabbath””
(Mr. 2:27)
“For He has spoken in a certain place of
the seventh day in this way: “And God
rested on the seventh day from all His
works”” (Heb. 4:4)
THE SEVENTH DAY
Genesis 2:1-3

16. Think through the implications
of our origins and why getting
them right is so important to
our understanding of who we
are, why we are here, and what
we can hope for in a world
that, in and of itself, offers no
hope at all.
The wonders of creation help
us in trusting the amazing love
and power of God.
Understanding our origins is so important that God had it placed as the
first subject in the Bible, and the message of the Bible is based on the
historicity of the Creation account.

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