Genesis

To be a good and true Bible study, we'll start at the Beginning and begin a great journey to Revelations to help teach our undeniable faith in the Lord, as I seek to learn from those wiser than myself !?!

Chapter 1

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.

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And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light.

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And God saw the light,
that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

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And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and
the morning were the second day.

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And God said, Let
the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry
land appear: and it was so.

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And God called the
dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God
saw that it was good.

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And God said, Let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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And
the evening and the morning were the third day.

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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and years:

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And let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

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And God made two great lights; the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

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And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth,

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And to rule over
the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God
saw that it was good.

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And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day.

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And God said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl
that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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And God created great whales, and every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and
every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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And God said, Let the earth bring forth the
living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the
earth after his kind: and it was so.

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And God made
the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every
thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he
them. Matt 19:4 Mark
10:6

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And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is
upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

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And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every
thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every
green herb for meat: and it was so.

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And God saw
every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day.

Besides Matt 6, this is my most read chapter. I will say I am a creational evolutionist, as an amature naturalist/geologist I love nature and the incredible forces that keep us and made us. I realize this model of creation was described 5000+ years ago without the benefit of the Hubble telescope or the electron microscope, many take this tiny fact out when analyzing their brilliance.
I rejected the Lord at first having read deeply about paleontology and geology at a young age, my 'god father' is a physicist, then I studied "The Great Monkey Trials" and Clarence Darrow destroyed my argument. I then was a lost agnostic, till Young Life entered my life as a result of all things, a divorce and a change to public from private schooling.
I was on a hike on one of those unreal autumn days when the air is electric with color from the leaves and it hit me. If the Lord created me from the dirt then evolution fits the creationist philosophy with just a major time warp, thus Intelligent design, I realized this twenty-five years ago and was the very path to my salvation in the Lord. If He meant me to evolve from a primordial muck and evolve/grow through many stages, so be it, who am I to question or limit Him ?!?