CHRIST'S WARNING TO EVOLUTIONISTS (Atheists and Agnostics!) -
ROMANS 1:18-23 18 But God (Jesus) shows his anger from
heaven against all sinful, wicked people who push the truth away from themselves. 19 For the
truth about God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts. 20 From
the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see
his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.
21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks.
And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.
22Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead. 23
And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or birds
and animals and snakes.
PSALM 14:1 Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God."
PSALM 89:11 (O LORD God Almighty!) The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything
in the world is yours—you created it all.
ISAIAH 45:18 For the Lord is God, and He created the heavens and earth and
put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in...
JOHN 1:1-3 In the beginning the Word (Jesus) already existed. He was with
God, and he was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3He
created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn’t make.
In the beginning God created* the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was
empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface. 3 Then
God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 And God saw that it was good. Then he separated
the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." Together these
made up one day.
6 And God said, "Let there be space between the waters, to separate water from water."
7 And so it was. God made this space to separate the waters above from the waters below. 8 And God called the space "sky." This happened on the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the waters beneath the sky be gathered into one place so dry
ground may appear." And so it was. 10 God named the dry ground "land" and the water "seas." And God
saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing
plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from
which they came." And so it was. 12 The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their
seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 This all happened on
the third day.
14 And God said, "Let bright lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the
night. They will be signs to mark off the seasons, the days, and the years. 15 Let their light shine
down upon the earth." And so it was. 16 For God made two great lights, the sun and the moon,
to shine down upon the earth. The greater one, the sun, presides during the day; the lesser one, the moon, presides through
the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set these lights in the heavens to light the earth,
18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that
it was good. 19 This all happened on the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be
filled with birds of every kind." 21 So God created great sea creatures and every sort of fish
and every kind of bird. And God saw that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them, saying, "Let the fish
multiply and fill the oceans. Let the birds increase and fill the earth." 23 This all happened on
the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth every kind of animal-livestock, small
animals, and wildlife." And so it was. 25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and
small animals, each able to reproduce more of its own kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make people* in our image, to be like ourselves.
They will be masters over all life-the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals,* and small
animals."
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So God created people in his own image;
God patterned them after himself;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and told them, "Multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. Be
masters over the fish and birds and all the animals." 29 And God said, "Look! I have given you the
seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. 30 And I have given
all the grasses and other green plants to the animals and birds for their food." And so it was. 31 Then
God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was excellent in every way. This all happened on the sixth day.
Footnotes:
1:1 Or In the beginning when God created, or When God began to create. 1:26
Hebrew man; also in 1:27. 1:26 As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads all the earth.
GENESIS 2
So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed. 2
On the seventh day, having finished his task, God rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed
the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from his work of creation.
4This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth.
The Man and Woman in Eden
When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth, 5 there
were no plants or grain growing on the earth, for the Lord God had not sent any rain. And no one
was there to cultivate the soil. 6 But water came up out of the ground and watered all the land. 7 And the Lord God formed a man's body from the dust of the ground and breathed
into it the breath of life. And the man became a living person.
8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,
and there he placed the man he had created. 9 And the Lord God planted
all sorts of trees in the garden-beautiful trees that produced delicious fruit. At the center of the garden he placed the
tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into
four branches. 11 One of these branches is the Pishon, which flows around the entire land of Havilah,
where gold is found. 12 The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone
are also found there. 13 The second branch is the Gihon, which flows around the entire land of Cush.
14 The third branch is the Tigris, which flows to the east of Asshur. The fourth branch is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to
tend and care for it. 16 But the Lord God gave him this warning: "You may
freely eat any fruit in the garden 17 except fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
If you eat of its fruit, you will surely die."
18 And the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to
be alone. I will make a companion who will help him." 19 So the Lord
God formed from the soil every kind of animal and bird. He brought them to Adam* to see what he would call them, and Adam
chose a name for each one. 20 He gave names to all the livestock, birds, and wild animals. But still
there was no companion suitable for him. 21 So the Lord God caused Adam to
fall into a deep sleep. He took one of Adam's ribs* and closed up the place from which he had taken it. 22
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam.
23 "At last!" Adam exclaimed. "She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be
called `woman,' because she was taken out of a man." 24 This explains why a man leaves his father
and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. 25 Now, although Adam and his
wife were both naked, neither of them felt any shame.
Footnotes:
2:19 Hebrew the man, and so throughout this chapter.
