The document discusses key points from Genesis chapter 1: - God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing through His spoken word. He created a mature universe. - Initially, the earth was formless and void before God's creative work began, with darkness covering the deep waters. - The Spirit of God hovered over the waters, preparing to energize creation and bring order from chaos.

1. GENESIS CHAPTER
ONE

2. IMPORTANT POINTS
THUS FAR IN THE STUDY
• Time is a physical property
• Time is the plane that measures the
relationship between objects in space
held together by gravity
• Man sees time as linear but God is
outside time and space and sees
everything at once
• Before time began God knew he would
come in Jesus

3. Apologetics
• 1 Peter 3:15: "But sanctify the Lord God in your
hearts, and always be ready to give a defense
to everyone who asks you a reason for the
hope that is in you, with meekness and fear"
• Defense = "from logical reasoning"
• All our reasoning is built from the living “logos”,
i.e. Jesus
• The fall created a blindness in our
understanding
• Revelation is needed to take the covering from
our eyes to see the living “logos”.

4. 2 Corinthians 4:3-6
"But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to
those who are perishing, whose minds the god of
this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the
light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is
the image of God, should shine on them. 5 For
we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus'
sake. For it is the God who commanded light to
shine out of darkness, who has shone in our
hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the
glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

5. Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning God
created the heavens and the
•"..created..": Bara earth” = "out of nothing
;"to create"
• "God,….calls those things which do not exist as
though they did"--Rom 4:17
• “ Bara” is specific , God created out of nothing,
God is separate from His creation
• Only God can create, that is call into existence
that which had no prior existence
• Men make things or form things from that which
are already present

6. “GOD” = ELOHIM
• God as creator
• In Genesis chapter 2 God will be
Jehovah the covenant keeping God
• Elohim is a plural form of God
• All three persons of the trinity are at
work in the creation account
• Vs 3: "Then God Said.." = Jesus the
Son
• Vs 2: "…the Spirit of God was
hovering…"

7. Is creation instantaneous,
or is it gradual over time?
• Crystals in oldest rocks demonstrated
bulls eye effect known as radio halos
• Bulls eye = radio activity is an
impurity in the rocks themselves
• Three things had to happen for the
radio halos to form:
• 1. Rock had to be liquid
• 2. Rock has to be solid to remain
• 3. Only happens when radio activity
is happening

8. • Rate of decay ratio for polonium (half-
life)
• 1. PO-218: 3 MINUTES
• 2. PO-214: .000164 SEC.
• 3. PO-210: 138 DAYS
Dr. Robert
Gentry a nuclear
physicist

9. PSALM 33:6&9
“By the word of the LORD the
heavens were made, And all the host
of them by the breath of His
mouth….. For He spoke, and it was
done; He commanded, and it stood
fast."

10. The chicken really did come
before the egg!
• WHEN GOD CREATED THE
EARTH, HE MORE THAN LIKELY
CREATED A MATURE EARTH. HE
CREATED THINGS IN THE MIDST
OF TIME ALREADY WITH AGE
BUILT INTO THEM. EXAMPLE:
ADAM; ANIMALS; PLANTS;
TREES; ETC., ALL MATURE

11. "…the heavens and the
earth.”
• Heavens = space; shamayim; often plural
• Heavens literally means: elevation…a place
that is higher in order, i.e. as opposed to
solid
• Earth = matter; erets or land as opposed to water
• The word often represents the whole
surface of this planet and when put together
with the word heavens describes the entire
physical creation and everything in it.

12. Gen 1:2
"The earth was without form,
and void…."
• “Was”—hayah
• In 98 percent of its occurrences hayah
is translated as was and not became, or
had become as some have used it
• This verb indicates more than simple
existence or identity; rather, the verb
makes a strong statement about the
being or presence of a person or thing

13. • The prophets often used hayah to denote
God’s intervention in the future, by using
this word, the emphasize upon…the
underlying force, i.e. God that will effect
the future events.
• The verb hayah simply stated is concerned
with the state in which things are, and the
force who is effecting change by direct
action upon things
• The earth had not become "without form,
and void" but was without form, and void
before God's direct forceful action upon it

14. GAP THEORY REFUTED
• Scofield Reference Bible supports
the "Gap Theory"
• Gap between Genesis. 1:1 and
Genesis 1:2
• Creation time not given therefore
could be billions of years
• First creation was for angels when
angels were in charge of planets
and this is when Lucifer fell and
took his fallen angels with him

15. • God needed to recreate the world from
its fall from the angels rebellion
• Gap theorist not only place a huge
emphasis upon the word hayah as "had
become" but also upon the word `asah
"made" as "recreate"
• Fossils are reminder of this time
• Gap Theory is a theological disaster:
• FOSSILS EQUAL DEATH; NO DEATH
BEFORE ADAM MAKES GOD
RESPONSIBLE DEATH, PAIN, AND
SUFFERING (ROM 5:12, I COR 15:21)

16. without form, and void…."
• “Without form”—tohu
• “And void”—bohu
• Tohu: Formlessness, confusion,
unreality, nothingness
• Bohu: Emptiness
• Jewish rabbis noticed by the
formation of the wording in
Genesis 1:1&2, that the proceeding
verses would result in the
formation of God’s house, and then
the filling of his house.

17. Isaiah 45:18
'"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."'
• GOD DID NOT CREATE THE
EARTH IN VAIN BUT TO BE
HOUSE FOR MAN AND THE
ANIMALS FOR HIS DIVINE

18. Gen 1:2
"and darkness was on the
face of the deep."
• "Deep" = waters
• "face of the deep"= "face of the waters = a watery
matrix
• “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
the waters”—vs. 2
• "…The Spirit of God”= the energizer of the
universe
• Two types of forces on matter = electromagnetic
spectrum and gravitational forces

19. • 2 Peter 1:2: The Spirit of God
energized the prophets
• Col 1: 15-17: Could it be that what
we know as gravitational forces is
actually the Person of God?
• The compass of the world needed to
be set, and had not yet happened;
the elements of matter and
molecules of water were present
but not yet energized; the forces of
gravity had not yet been functioning
to pull together the particles into a
functioning form

20. Proverbs 8:24-31
"When there were no depths I was
brought forth, When there were no
fountains abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills, I was brought forth;
While as yet He had not made the
earth or the fields, Or the primal dust
of the world. When He prepared the
heavens, I was there, When He drew a
circle on the face of the deep, When
He established the clouds above, When
He strengthened the fountains of the

21. When He assigned to the sea its
limit, So that the waters would not
transgress His command, When He
marked out the foundations of the
earth, Then I was beside Him as a
master craftsman; And I was daily
His delight, Rejoicing always before
Him, Rejoicing in His inhabited
world, And my delight was with the
sons of men."
• "Not by might, nor by power, but
by my Spirit says the Lord…" Zech.

22. Babylonian map of the
world
Probably the oldest map yet found dating. This
tablet dates from the 7th-6th century BC and
depicts the world as a circle surrounded by water
and with Babylon at its center.

23. Genesis 1:2
And the Spirit of God was
hovering
"As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers
over its young, Spreading out its wings,
taking them up, Carrying them on its
wings…" Deut 32:11
• The imagery painted in verse two is
that God is a loving protective creator
brooding over His young assuring their
success and growth into maturity as
they take their first steps. How can we
fail?

24. • A person who wants to do a study of the
Holy Spirit does not start at acts 2, but
here in Genesis verse 2.
• .."for it is God who works in you both
to will and to do for His good pleasure."
Phil 2:13
• "What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare His own Son, but
delivered Him up for us all, how shall
He not with Him also freely give us all

25. "Who shall bring a charge against
God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ
who died, and furthermore is also
risen, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also makes intercession for
us. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is
written: "For Your sake we are killed
all day long; We are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter."

26. Yet in all these things we are more
than conquerors through Him who
loved us. For I am persuaded that
neither death nor life, nor angels
nor principalities nor powers, nor
things present nor things to come,
nor height nor depth, nor any other
created thing, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:31-39