From our series, "The Bible In Five" a 5 years examination of the Scriptures. Pastor Dave Kooyers , Valley Bible Fellowship, (707) 895-3212

2. Genesis
The Book of Beginning

3. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth.
• 1st. 5 Hebrew words of the Bible?
• Bereshith (beginning)
• Bara (Latin, Ex-Nihilo)
• Elohim (God)
• Shamayim (Plural/Dual, 1st. & 2nd. Heavens)
• Erets (earth)

4. Creation Days
• Day 1 = “Light & Darkness”
• Day 2 = "Sky”
• Day 3 = “Dry Ground and Vegetation”
• Day 4 = “Sun, Moon, and Stars”

5. Genesis 1:20-23
• The fifth day

6. Gen 1:21, So God Created
• Genesis 1:20-23
• This is the second use of bara (“created”) in
the Bible

7. Great Creatures of the Sea
• Gen 1:21 So God created the great creatures
of the sea and every living and moving thing
with which the water teems, according to
their kinds….

8. Great Creatures of the Sea

9. Great Creatures of the Sea. IVP
• Genesis 1:20 In the Babylonian Hymn to
Shamash, the sun god is said to receive praise
and reverence even from the worst groups.
Included in the list are the fearsome monsters of
the sea. The hymn thus suggests that there is a
total submission of all creatures to Shamash, just
as the Genesis creation texts shows all creatures
created by, and therefore submitted to, Yahweh.
The Labbu Myth records the creation of the sea
viper, whose length was sixty leagues.
• IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament,

10. Be Fruitful and Increase in Number
• Genesis 1:22 God blessed them and said, "Be
fruitful and increase in number and fill the
water in the seas…"

12. Be Fruitful and Increase in Number
• Genesis 1:22 God blessed them and said, "Be
fruitful and increase in number….and let the
birds increase on the earth."

13. Be Fruitful and Increase in Number
• Millions of eggs
• Multiplication of flys

16. Creation Days
• Day 1 = “Light & Darkness”
• Day 2 = "Sky”
• Day 3 = “Dry Ground and Vegetation”
• Day 4 = “Sun, Moon, and Stars”
• Day 5 = “Birds and Sea Creatures”

17. Genesis 1:24-31
• The sixth day.

18. Zonkey

19. According to Their Kinds
• Gen 1:25….God made the wild animals according
to their kinds, the livestock according to their
kinds, and all the creatures that move along the
ground according to their kinds.
• So how do we get from a phish to a philosopher?
• Fish to frog, to salamander, to reptile to birds and
mammals.
• Or as they say;
• From goo to you, by way of the zoo.

20. Dinosaurs
• So, if humans
were created on
Day 6, when
were the
dinosaurs
created?

21. First, Let’s Ask “When Was The Word
“Dinosaur” Created?”
• Word Origin & History
dinosaur
1841, coined by Sir Richard Owen, from Gk. de
inos "terrible" +sauros "lizard," of unknown
origin. Fig. sense of "person or
institution not adapting to change" is from
1952.
• Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

22. When Were The Dinosaurs Created?
• "Genesis 1:21 God created the great sea
monsters [8577 tannin] and every living creature that
moves, with which the waters swarmed …."
• "Genesis 1:25 God made the beasts [2421b, chayyah]
of the earth after their kind, and the cattle [0929,
behemah] after their kind, and everything that creeps
on the ground after its kind…."
• So the “great sea monsters” were day 5, the
“beasts of the earth after their kind, and the
cattle” were day 6

23. Tanniym = “dragon”
• Every KJV, OT use (6X’s) of the word translated
as sea monsters in Genesis 1:21, the Strong’s
Hebrew word #8577 (tannin/ tanniym), is
translated as “dragon”
• The word “dinosaur” wasn’t invented yet.

24. Could behemah, Be "Behemoth"
• <0930> Behemoth (97a)
• Meaning: a kind of animal
• Origin: prob. pl. of 929
• Usage: Behemoth(1).
• Notes: 1 Or the hippopotamus 2 Lit with a Job
40:19
• <0929> behemah (96d)
• Meaning: a beast, animal, cattle
• "Job 40:15-24 "Behold now, Behemoth, which I
made as well as you; He eats grass like an ox…"

25. Could Sea Monsters, tannin Be Leviathan
• <03882> Livyathan (531b)
• Meaning: 'serpent,' a sea monster or dragon
• Origin: from the same as 3880
• Usage: Leviathan(6).
• “or dragon” Job 41:1-34 "Can you draw out
Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his
tongue with a cord?...” (or Job 41:19?)

26. "KJV Job 40:15
Behold now
Dinosaurs
behemoth, which I
made with thee; • So, if humans
he eateth grass as
an ox"
were created on
Day 6, when
were the
dinosaurs
created?
• Day 5 sea
creatures, day 6
land animals

27. Idolatry vs. Made in Image of God.
• “Genesis 1:26-27 Image of God. When God
created people, he put them in charge of all of his
creation. He endowed them with his own image.
In the ancient world an image was believed to
carry the essence of that which it represented. An
idol image of deity, the same terminology as used
here, would be used in the worship of that deity
because it contained the deity’s essence. This
would not suggest that the image could do what
the deity could do, nor that it looked the same as
the deity.
• IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

28. Idolatry vs. Made in Image of God.
• Rather, the deity’s work was thought to be
accomplished through the idol. In similar ways
the governing work of God was seen to be
accomplished by people. But that is not all there
is to the image of God. Gen 5:1-3 likens the image
of God in Adam to the image of Adam in Seth.
This goes beyond the comment about plants and
animals reproducing after their own kind, though
certainly children share physical characteristics
and basic nature (genetically) with their parents.”
• IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

29. Made in Image of God.

30. Idolatry vs. Made in Image of God.
• “What draws the idol imagery and the child
imagery together is the concept that the image
provides the capacity not only to serve in the
place of God (his representative containing his
essence) but also to be and act like him. The tools
he provided so that we may accomplish that task
include conscience, self-awareness and spiritual
discernment. Mesopotamian traditions speak of
sons being in the image of
• IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

31. Idolatry vs. Made in Image of God.
• their fathers (*Enuma Elish ) but do not speak of
humans created in the image of God; but the
Egyptian Instructions of Merikare identifies
humankind as the god’s images who came from
his body. In Mesopotamia a significance of the
image can be seen in the practice of kings setting
up images of themselves in places where they
want to establish their authority. Other than that,
it is only other gods who are made in the image
of gods.”
• IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

32. Creation Accounts From Mesopotamia
• “creation of people in ancient Near Eastern
myths. In creation accounts from Mesopotamia
an entire population of people is created, already
civilized, using a mixture of clay and the blood of
a slain rebel god. This creation comes about as
the result of conflict among the gods, and the
god organizing the cosmos had to overcome the
forces of chaos to bring order to his created
world. The Genesis account portrays God’s
creation not as part of a conflict with opposing
forces but as a serene and controlled process.”
• from IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, Genesis 1:26-31.

33. Let Us Make, Genesis 1:26
• “Accordingly, in the narrative of this last act of the
Creator's work, when completed, the word
[chayaah] "living thing" is the general term
employed, which comprehends the whole extent
of the animal creation. The manner in which this
narrative is introduced shows the peculiar
importance of the work to be done-the formation
of a creature who was to be God's representative,
invested with authority and rule as visible head
and monarch of the world. In the previous acts of
His creative power
• Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

34. Let Us Make, Genesis 1:26
• God had put forth the mere fiat of His will, "Let
there be light," "Let the earth bring forth," etc.;
but on this last occasion He said, "Let us make
man." This form of expression, which seems to
indicate deliberation, as well as mutual
consultation, is not to be explained either by the
peculiarity of the idiom referred to on [Elohiym]
Gen 1:1 - for "us" is joined here to a plural verb;
or by the use of the pluralis majestatis, because
this lofty style, in which earthly potentates
commonly speak of themselves, was as yet
unknown.”
• Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Bold and underlined emphasis is mine, DLK

35. pluralis majestatis or Plural of Majesty
• This Plural of Majesty did not exist during the
time Scripture was written down. It was
invented much later in human history, as a
response to the plural elohim referring to the
singular, one true God of John 17:3, and
elsewhere. Whether kings embraced this to
make themselves sound lofty, or more royal, I
know not. However, there is not one use of
the Plural of Majesty by any king, Jew or
gentile, anywhere in Scripture.

36. Let Us Make, Genesis 1:26
• “Nor is the difficulty removed by supposing that
God was addressing himself to the angelic hosts,
because the hypothesis that they accompanied
Him as counselors, or that their agency was
employed, is contrary to the whole tenor of
Scripture. Still less admissible is the method of
solution proposed by Tuch, that the words are a
soliloquy, as if, after one consideration and
formation of his purpose, the Creator spoke out
His thoughts! [soliloquy = talking to himself or herself… oblivious to any hearers present]
DLK, http://dictionary.reference.com
• Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

37. Let Us Make, Genesis 1:26
• The only proper and consistent explanation is,
that this passage, which stands at the very
commencement of revelation, contains an
obscure intimation of the great mystery of the
Godhead, which was clearly made known by the
subsequent and sublime discoveries of the
Gospel.”
• Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

38. Created in the Image of God
• “Genesis 1:24-31 Day six was Creation's climax
for it included mankind. Though man was the last
creature mentioned in the account, he did not
evolve; he was created.
• Human life was created in (lit., "as," meaning "in
essence as") the image of God (v. 27). This image
was imparted only to humans (2:7). "Image"
(selem)…
• Bible Knowledge Commentary/Old Testament

39. Created in the Image of God
• is used figuratively here, for God does not have a
human form. Being in God's image means that
humans share, though imperfectly and finitely, in
God's nature, that is, in His communicable
attributes (life, personality, truth, wisdom, love,
holiness, justice), and so have the capacity for
spiritual fellowship with Him.”
• Bible Knowledge Commentary/Old Testament

40. Created in the Image of God
• God is an eternal Trinity of three persons; Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit
• Humans have 3 aspects, body, soul, and spirit
• Soul= emotion, intellect, and will (dogs have a soul)
• Our spirit is unique to humans and God
• Our speech is unique to humans and God (angels)
• Our relationship to God is unique to humans
• Our worth to God is unique to humans
• " 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no
sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might
become the righteousness of God in Him." (Jn 3:16)

41. Created in the Image of God
• We are unique in that we have a spirit. Giving us the
ability to reason, love, and commune with God.
• "Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together,"
Says the LORD, "Though your sins are as scarlet, They
will be as white as snow; Though they are red like
crimson, They will be like wool."
• "Luke 10:27 And he answered, "YOU SHALL LOVE THE
LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH
ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND
WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
YOURSELF.""

42. Created in the Image of God, Dr. Ryrie
• Image…likeness. Interchangeable terms (5:3)
indicating that man was created in a natural
and moral likeness to God. When he sinned,
he lost the moral likeness, which was his
sinlessness, but the natural likeness of
intellect, emotions, and will he still retains
(cf.9:6; James 3:9).

43. Created in the Image of God, Bible
• Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son
in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named
him Seth.
• Gen 9:6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man
shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has
God made man.
• James 3:9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and
Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made
in God's likeness.
• 2 Cor 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of
unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the
gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

44. Gen 1:30…, Veggie Dinosaurs Pre-Fall
• So, what did the T-Rex dinosaurs eat?
• Gen 1:30…and to all the beasts of the earth
and all the birds of the air and all the
creatures that move on the ground —
everything that has the breath of life in it — I
give every green plant for food." And it was
so.

45. Creation Days
• Day 1 = “Light & Darkness”
• Day 2 = "Sky”
• Day 3 = “Dry Ground and Vegetation”
• Day 4 = “Sun, Moon, and Stars”
• Day 5 = “Birds and Sea Creatures”
• Day 6 = “Land Animals and Humans”

46. Gen 1:25, God made the wild animals
according to their kinds, the livestock
according to their kinds…
Zonkey?

47. •The End

48. • Liger Zorse
• Dinosaurs, Image of God, behemoth, dragon,
tanniym, Leviathan