The document contains two creation stories from Genesis - Genesis 1:1-2:3 tells of God creating the world in six days, while Genesis 2:4-25 provides additional details about the creation of man. The document then analyzes references to creation throughout the Bible, organized by the days of creation in Genesis. It emphasizes that understanding our origins as described in Genesis is very important, as the message of the Bible is based on the historicity of the creation account.

1. Lesson 4 for January 26, 2013

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

3. 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.
He creates and He creates the
He teaches
furnishes a He creates woman. Adam
Adam the basic
God creates home for animals to live and Eve
moral laws that
Adam (Gn. 2:7) Adam, the with man become “one
will rule his life
garden of Eden (Gn. 2:18-20) flesh”
(Gn. 2:16-17)
(Gn. 2:8-15) (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)

4. 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.

5. “The world and all its fullness, You have founded them” (Psalm 89:11)
“Thus says God the Lord, Who created the
heavens and stretched them out” (Is. 42:5)
“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)
“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)

6. “I fear the Lord, the God of
heaven, who made the sea
and the dry land” (Jon. 1:9) “For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not
been since the beginning of the creation which God created
“All things were made until this time” (Mr. 13:19)
through Him, and
without Him nothing
was made that was “God, who
made” (John 1:3) made the
world and
everything
in it” (Acts
17:24)
“You created all things, and by
Your will they exist and were
“who created heaven and the things that created” (Rev. 4:11)
are in it, the earth and the things that are in
it, and the sea and the things that are in it” “worship Him who made heaven and earth,
(Rev. 10:6) the sea and springs of water” (Rev. 14:7)

7. GENESIS 1:1-2
“Where were you
when I laid the
foundations of the
earth?” (Job 38:4)
“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)
“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)

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

9. Genesis 1:6-8
“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)

10. “You have set all the borders of the earth” (Psalm 74:17)
“At Your rebuke they *the waters+
Genesis 1:9-13
“When I fixed My limit for it *the fled; at the voice of Your thunder they
sea], and set bars and doors; When hastened away. They went up over
I said, ‘This far you may come, but the mountains; they went down into
no farther, and here your proud the valleys, to the place which You
waves must stop!’” (Job 38:10-11) 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)
“He who forms mountains… The Lord
God of hosts is His name” (Am. 4:13)

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

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

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

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

15. 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.
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.