As soon as God’s creation was finished, Satan entered the picture. Is that not instructive? Everything that is good has come from God, and everything that God has made has been twisted and perverted by Satan. We do not know much about the origin of Satan or the reasons he acts as he does. He and his angels were obviously created by God (Col. 1:16). Satan was clearly created with great power, power that he did not lose once he turned against God. Satan believed in his cause and believed he could win. There would have been no reason for ...
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As has often been said before, God officiated at the first wedding. Marriage is a God-made, not a man-made relationship. Since God originated marriage, its success or failure is dependent upon whether a couple follows God’s principles for a healthy marriage. The problem with most couples today is that they either do not know God’s principles or they willfully disregard them. Consider that when God uttered the words of Genesis 2:24 through Adam, He put in place a number of laws pertaining to marriage that must be observed by all men and women. To do otherwise is to sin and suffer ...
In chapter one of Genesis, at the end of every day of creation, the record states, “And God saw that it was good.” At the end of the sixth day of creation, the record states, “And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.” It was on this sixth day that God created both the man and the woman. However, before that sixth day was completed, in 2:18, God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Out of all the “good” things God ...
Chapter two of Genesis offers us more detail concerning the creation, especially in regard to the sixth day and the creation of man. After creating man we see the graciousness of God in planting a garden in which man could live. In the middle of the garden, God created two trees: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If they ate the tree of life, they would live forever, but if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would surely die. But why did God create a tree ...
“So God created man in His own image…male and female he created them.” The fact that God created man in His own image is an exciting thought. Considering that no other living thing was created this way, why did God choose to make us in His image and in what way are we like God? Let’s begin with the second question. In what way are we in the image of God? John 4:24 states, God is a spirit…” In other words, God is not flesh and blood nor is He in a form that we have ever seen. When the apostles saw ...
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. It is evident in reading the first nine chapters of Genesis that the world before the Flood was entirely different than the world after the Flood. Peter confirms this in 2 Peter 3:5-6 when he says, “by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.” Peter was not talking ...
“There was an evening and there was a morning, the first day” (vs. 5). Well, how long was that first day? How long were the subsequent days of creation? Were they 24 hours like we have in the present, or were they millions of years? In order to accommodate the theory of evolution and its supposition of the universe being in existence for 15 billion years, some Bible students have suggested that the days of creation had to be millions of years long, or at the very least, millions of years passed in between each day of creation. Let’s consider ...
In our last article we talked about the implications of the word “beginning.” Now it is important to talk about “God.” The word for God in the Hebrew is elohim. Elohim is a collective noun, a plural word with a singular meaning. Common collective nouns are “herd,” “flock,” “family,” and “committee.” One cow does not make a herd nor does one person make a family. When Moses penned this verse, the Israelites of his day would have realized that “God” was not one person. God was a family name for a collective. We later read in Genesis 1:26 –“Then God ...
Please think for a moment about the significance of these four words. First, it is important that there was a beginning. But a beginning of what? There was a beginning of time, a beginning of the material universe, and a beginning of life on earth. The fact that there was a beginning of time and that God was already present indicates that there was something going on before time and before the universe began. In Titus 1:2, Paul described one thing that took place before the beginning when he said, “in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised ...