How Did I Get Here

Continuing our series: The Big Questions

2 Peter 1:20-21 (ESV – English Standard Version)

²⁰knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation.

²¹For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 1:26-31 (ESV – English Standard Version)

²⁶Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

²⁷ So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

²⁸And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

²⁹And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

³⁰And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

³¹And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

POINT ONE

Humanity was created by a divine .

Ge 1:26

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

Genesis 1:31 (ESV – English Standard Version)

³¹And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

(Intrinsic value) 
Suggests that the value of an item or concept is absolute and inherently valuable.

(Relative Value)
suggests that the value of an item or concept is not absolute but depends on its context or how it relates to other things.

POINT TWO 

Humanity was created with

Isaiah 43:6-7 (ESV – English Standard Version)

⁶ I will say to the north, Give up,
and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the end of the earth,

⁷ everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made.”

POINT THREE 

Humanity was created

Genesis 2:7-8 (ESV – English Standard Version)

⁷then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

⁸And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Bible Passage

Genesis 2:21-23 (ESV – English Standard Version)

²¹So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

²²And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

²³Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”

God created humanity vastsly different from the rest of his creation.

We are not just some other animal

Our world wants to give animals the same value as humans but we are not just another animal

We are uniquely loved by the God who created us.

Bible Passage

John 3:16 (ESV – English Standard Version)

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

LANDING

You were intentionally created by a divine designer who loves you very much.