Coachlight Bible Study – The Book of Genesis – Chapter 1:1-2

The Creation of the Universe

The Bible is the most important book ever written.  Undoubtedly, even those who do not believe in the Bible’s inspiration by God would have to admit that the Bible has had more influence on history than any other book written, ever.  The Bible is actually a compilation of many books by many different human authors, and the book of Genesis is the foundation of them all.

The book of Genesis has been attacked, probably from the beginning, but especially in these latter decades.  From the so-called higher-criticism began in the sixteenth century by the philosopher Spinoza, along with the spread of Deism in the 1790’s, the age of Dialecticism by Espinoza of the eighteenth century along with Darwinian evolution and Humanistic Psychology of the twentieth century, and most lately, the De-Vinci Code of the twenty-first century, all these false teachings has caused virtually all liberal teachers to theorize that Genesis and for that matter, the whole Pentateuch, was not compiled and written by Moses, but was rather compiled unknowns after the exile in Babylon.

Although this conspiracy theory does not square with history, and goes against the teaching in the rest of the Bible, especially the New Testament, and especially by Christ, the false teachers of today will equate the book of Genesis with mere fables and myths.

The book of Genesis however concerns the origin of all things, and therefore the meaning of all things, and this would otherwise not be able to be known by man.  Our belief concerning our origin, will determine our belief concerning God’s purpose and our destiny.  What purpose and destiny does a believer in evolution have?

The book of Genesis also points out God’s purpose in inspiring the book in the first place.  This is most misunderstood today with many people’s concept of God as being some kind of evil ogre, spelled out with a statement something like, “How could a loving God permit such evil things happen to innocent children?”

The Book of Genesis – Bereshith - Origins
Reference	1:1	3:1	6:1	10:1	12:1	25:19	27:1	37:1
Plan	Creation	Fall	Flood	Nations	Abraham	Isaac	Jacob	Joseph
Purpose	To give God’s people the foundation for the rest of God’s Word, and to state God’s purpose, while stating the origin of the universe, life, man, marriage, evil, language, culture, religion, nations, government, and God’s chosen people.
Division	Four Events				Four People
Topic	Human Race				Hebrew Race
	Historical				Biographical
Location	Fertile Crescent				Canaan			Egypt
Time	c. 4004–2090 BC – c. 2000 Years				2090-1897 BC – 193 Years			1897 -1804 BC- 93 Years

I. The Book of Genesis is the Origin of Everything

A. The origin of the universe

1. No other book accounts for the creation of the space-mass-time continuum

2. Genesis 1:1 is unique in all literature, science, and philosophy

3. Every other cosmogony begins with some form of eternal matter or energy

a. Whether it comes from a scientific model

b. Whether it comes from an ancient religion

4. Only the book of Genesis accounts for the origin of matter, space, and time.

B. The origin of order and complexity

1. Science and observation teaches –

Orderly and complex things tend naturally to decay into disorder and simplicity.

2. Order and complexity never arise spontaneously.

3. They are always generated by a prior cause.

4. The Eternal Programmer and His programmed purposes only in Genesis

C. The origin of the solar system

1. Genesis teaches that the planets, earth, and stars were all created by God

2. Natural man attempts to devise naturalistic theories of origins.

D. The origin of the atmosphere and hydrosphere

1. The earth is equipped with what is necessary for life

a. It is equipped with a a great body of liquid water

b. It is equipped with a blanket of a oxygen-nitrogen gaseous mixture

2. As yet, no other heavenly body has these two needed for life

E. The origin of life

1. The teaching of Genesis is the only rational explanation of origins

2. All observation goes against natural causes

a. The marvels of the reproductive process

b. The almost infinite complexity programmed into genetic systems

c. The laws of Thermodynamics and Probability

F. The origin of man

1. Man is the most highly organized and complex entity in the universe.

2. Man’s imaginary evolution process is only an illusion.

G. The origin of marriage

1. He ordained a monogamous, patriarchal, social culture of marriage and home.

2. The perversions of polygamy, infanticide, matriarchy, promiscuity, divorce, abortion, homosexuality, and others, developed later.

H. The origin of evil

1. Cause and effect reasoning for the origin of goodness, truth, beauty, love, etc.

2. Moral and physical evils are only a temporary intrusion into God’s perfect world

a. Allowing for human freedom and responsibility

c. Allowing God to be both Creator and Redeemer.

I. The origin of language

1. There is a gulf between the chattering of animals and the intelligent, abstract, and symbolic communication of man in the evolutionary theory.

2. Only Genesis accounts for both the origin of language

a. Language in particular

b. The origin of national languages

J. The origin of government

K. The origin of culture

Such things as urbanization, metallurgy, music, agriculture, animal husbandry, writing, education, navigation, textiles, and ceramics are in Genesis.

L. The origin of nations

Only the book of Genesis gives an adequate answer to how different nations and races developed out of one.

M. The origin of religion

N. The origin of the chosen people

1. Who can explain the Israelites – They contributed immensely to the world’s art, music, science, finance, etc., yet

2. Are despised by great numbers of people

II. The Book of Genesis is the Foundation of History

A. The Book of Genesis mentioned in the Old Testament

1. Adam is mentioned by name in:

a. Deuteronomy

b. Job

c. I Chronicles

2. Noah is mentioned in:

a. I Chronicles

b. Isaiah

c. Ezekiel

3. Abraham is mentioned by name in 15 books of the OT and 11 of the New

4. Jacob is mentioned in 20 in the OT, and 11 of the New

B. The Book of Genesis mentioned in the New Testament

1. There are 165 passages in Genesis that are either directly quoted or clearly quoted in the New Testament.

2. Many are alluded to more than once, which makes at least 200.

3. Chart of References to Genesis in the New Testament:

Number	Genesis Reference	Topic	NT Reference
01.	1:1	God in the beginning	John 1:1
02.	1:1	Beginning of the world	II Timothy 1:9
03.	1:1	Beginning of the world	Titus 1:2
04.	1:1	Creation of the universe	Hebrews 11: 3
05.	1:1	Earth and heaven in the beginning	Hebrews 1:10
06.	1:3-5	Light out of darkness	II Corinthians 4:6
07.	1:5-7	Earth out of water and in water	II Peter 3:4-5
08.	1:11	Every seed his own body	I Corinthians 15:38-39
09.	1:11-12	Earth bringing forth herbs	Hebrews 6:7
10.	1:26-27	Made male and female	Mark 10:6-7
11.	1:26-27	Made In Image of God	Colossians 3:10
12.	1:27	In the image of God	I Corinthians 11:7
13.	1:29-31	All creatures good	I Timothy 4:4
14.	1:31	All things made by God	Acts 17:24
15.	2:1	All that in them is	Acts 14:15
16.	2:1	All things created in heaven and earth	Revelation 10:6
17.	2:1	First heaven and first earth	Revelation 21:1
18.	2:1-3	All things created	Colossians 1:16
Number	Genesis Reference	Topic	NT Reference
19.	2:1	Works finished	Hebrews 4:3
20.	2:2	Created all things	Hebrews 4:4
21.	2:3	Ceased from His works	Hebrews 4:10
22.	2:3	Created all things	Ephesians 3:9
23.	2:3	World made by Him	John 1:10
24.	2:3	Created all things	Revelation 4:11
25.	2:4	Creation which God created	Mark 13:19
26.	2:4	He that made heaven and earth	Revelation14:7
27.	2:4-6	Things that were made	Romans 1:20
28.	2:7	Adam a living soul	I Corinthians 15:45
29.	2:7	Man formed	I Timothy 2:13
30.	2:9	Tree of life in paradise	Revelation 2:7
31.	2:9	Fruit of tree of life	Revelation 22:14
32.	2:17	Death by sin	Romans 5:12
33.	2:18	Woman for the man	I Corinthians 11:9
34.	2:22	Woman of the man	I Corinthians 11:8
35.	2:23	Bone of his bone	Ephesians 5:30
36.	2:24	Leave father and mother	Ephesians 5:31
37.	2:24	One flesh	I Corinthians 6:16
38.	2:24	Cleave to his wife	Matthew 19:5
39.	2:24	One flesh	Mark 10:8
40.	3:1	That old serpent	Revelation 20:2
41.	3:1	Subtlety of serpent	II Corinthians 11:3
42.	3:4	Father of lies	John 8:44
43.	3:6	Woman deceived	I Timothy 2:14
44.	3:13	Serpent beguiled Eve	II Corinthians 11:3
45.	3:14	Devil sinneth from the beginning	I John 3:8
46.	3:15	Made of a woman	Galatians 4:4
47.	3:15	Satan bruised underfoot	Romans 16:20
48.	3:15	Enmity with the woman	Revelation
49.	3:15	That old serpent	Revelation 12:9
50.	3:15	Treading on serpents	Luke 10:19
51.	3:16	Saved in child-bearing	I Timothy 2:15
52.	3:16	Woman under obedience	I Corinthians 14:34
53.	3:16	Sorrow in travail	John 16:20
54.	3:16	Man the head of the woman	I Corinthians 11:3
55.	3:17	No more curse	Revelation 22:3
56.	3:18	Thorns and briers	Hebrews 6:8
57.	3:18-19	Bondage of corruption	Romans 8:21-22
58.	3:18-19	No more death, sorrow, pain	Revelation 21:4
59.	3:19	Work for your own bread	II Thessalonians 3:12
60.	3:19	By man came death	I Corinthians 15:21
61.	3:20	Mother of us all	Galatians 4:26
62.	3:22	Fruit of tree of life	Revelation 22:2
63.	3:23	Man from the earth	I Corinthians 15:47
64.	4:3-5	Abel a more excellent sacrifice	Hebrews 11:4
65.	4:4	Righteous Abel	Matthew 23:35
66.	4:8	Cain slew his brother	I John 3:12
67.	4:10	Blood of Abel	Hebrews 12:24
68.	4:11	Blood of Abel	Luke 11:51
69.	4:16	The way of Cain	Jude 11
70.	4:26	Prophets since the world began	Luke 1:70
Number	Genesis Reference	Topic	NT Reference
71.	5:1	Book of the generations	Matthew 1:1
72.	5:1	Similitude of God	James 3:9
73.	5:2	Created male and female	Matthew 19:4
74.	5:2	Beginning of Creation of God	Revelation 3:14
75.	5:4	Death reigned from Adam	Romans 5:14-19
76.	5:5	In Adam all die	I Corinthians 15:22
77.	5:3-6	Adam  to Enos	Luke 3:38
78.	5:12-21	Cainan to Methuselah	Luke 3:37
79.	5:18	Enoch, seventh from Adam	Jude 14
80.	5:24	Enoch translated	Hebrews 11:5
81.	5:28-32	Lamech to Shem	Luke 3:36
82.	5:29	Subjected to curse in hope	Romans 8:20
83.	6:2	Angels that sinned	II Peter 2:4
84.	6:3	Spirit striving with flesh	Galatians 5:17
85.	6:4	Angels left their habitation	Jude 6
86.	6:4	Marrying wives	Luke 17:27
87.	6:5	Days of Noah	Matthew 24:37
88.	6:12-13	The days of Noah	Luke 17:26
89.	6:13	God spared not old world	II Peter 2:5
90.	6:14-16	Ark preparing	I Peter 3:20
91.	7:1	Saving of his house	Hebrews 11:7
92.	7:13-16	Noah entered the ark	Matthew 4:38
93.	7:17-18	The flood came	Matthew 4:39
94.	7:19-20	Overflowed with water	II Peter 3:6
95.	8:21	Sweet savour	Philippians 4:18
96.	8:22	Fruitful seasons	Acts 14:17
97.	9:2	All things subjected to man	Hebrews 2:7-8
98.	9:3	Everything meat for you	I Timothy 4:3
99.	9:4	Blood not to be eaten	Acts 15:20
100.	9:6	Life for life	Matthew 26:52
101.	10:8-11	Babylon, the mother of abominations	Revelation 17:5
102.	10:32	All nations on face of earth	Acts 17:26