Q&A: Genesis 01:01-19 In the Beginning–God (Part 1 of 2) (42:32)

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  1. What is the first verse in the Bible?
    “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
  2. What do secularists believe about that verse?
    That is is myth, storytelling that is not to be taken literally
  3. What do the secularists say about how we got here?
    Through a long process of random molecular collisions that occurred over billions and billions of years.
  4. How do these secularists tend to define “science”
    They define it with the definition of philosophical naturalism/materialism
  5. What is philosophical naturalism/materialism?
    A faith religion that chooses not to  believe in God
  6. Why do they like to call it “science.”
    Because that way they can get by with indoctrinating kids in their religion in our public schools.
  7. How did our culture become so confused and deceived about sexual and gender issues?
    By rejecting God, they can use their own rationalizations to call any behavior that they like an act of “love.”
  8. What is unusual about the Hebrew word, Elohim, one of God’s names? And what is it’s significance?
    It’s plural, which points us to the Divine Trinity
  9. What other verse in Genesis 1 points us to the Trinity?
    Genesis 1:26– “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (Note the plural pronouns: us and our)
  10. According to John 1, Who created the world and everything in it?
    Jesus, the Word of God.
  11. According to Colossians 1, Who created everything in heaven and earth?
    Jesus
  12. Is it to be expected that there will be things about God and His creation that our little minds cannot comprehend?
    Of course!
  13. What does our enemy, the devil, try to whisper to us when we run into a tough question about God or His creation?
    Maybe you can’t really trust the Bible. Maybe the secularists are right.
  14. Do Biblical Christians, who all agree that God created the heavens and the earth, agree about HOW God did it?
    No
  15. Did it occur to people, before the past 200 years or so when scientists started announcing that the earth was billions and billions of years old, that the Bible might be pointing us to a creation that was billions and billions of years ago?
    No. A plain reading of the Bible would never cause us to guess the earth is billions of years old.
  16. What is the “gap theory?”
    The theory that there may have been billions and billions of years between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
  17. Who popularized the so-called “gap theory?”
    C.I. Scofield
  18. What is the “day-age” theory?
    The theory that the days of Genesis 1 are not literal days. Each “day” could have been billions of years.
  19. Who is one of the most prominent proponents of the “day-age” theory?
    Hugh Ross
  20. Give other examples of Godly men who did(do) not accept the idea of a “young” earth (only thousands rather than billions of years old)?
    J.I. Packer, Francis Shaeffer, William Lane Craig, Norm Geisler, Greg Koukl, C.S. Lewis, Bernard Ramm, Lee Strobel
  21. What is “Theistic evolution?”
    The theory that God is the Creator, but He did it through the process of evolution
  22. Is the “day-age” theory the same as “theistic evolution?”
    No. 
  23. What’s the difference?
    The “day-age” theory teaches that God supernaturally intervened millions of acts of creation over millions of years of time.
  24. What are some other theories of Genesis 1?
    It is allegorical. It is symbolic. It is poetic. It is mythical. It is irrelevant.
  25. Is it OK for Christians to disagree about these things?
    Of course. Some of us have to be wrong. But Christians can disagree about how God created things and still agree about the nature of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and salvation.
  26. How do many evolutionists use a logical fallacy to try to convince kids that they already believe in evolution?
    They equate variation within species (like bacterial resistance to antibiotics) to macro-evolution (one species evolving into another species)
  27. Why are many atheistic evolutionists surprised at theistic evolutionists?
    Many atheistic evolutionists acknowledge the massive weaknesses with the theory. Many will even admit that it is the only thing they have to explain life without God, even though they feel it is not a good explanation. So it doesn’t make sense to them that anyone who believes in God would also embrace such a weak theory designed to leave Him out.
  28. Why do many Christians who know very few of the real details and problems with evolution accept it as true?
    They just can’t believe that “all these scientists could be wrong.”