CREATION STORIES AND CULTURES
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GENESIS CREATION STORY
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Genesis 1:1 (ESV) – In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Does God exist?
- Who is God?
Genesis 1:1-2 (ESV) – In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
John 1:1 (ESV) – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 (ESV) – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- Where did the universe come from?
Genesis 1:1 (ESV) – In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Why does the universe exist?
Psalm 19:1 (ESV) – The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Romans 11:36 (ESV) – For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Colossians 1:16 (ESV) – For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
- Where did humanity come from?
Genesis 1:26–27 (ESV) – Then 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.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 2:5–7 (ESV) – When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—then 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.
- Who am I and why am I here?
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GOD IS STILL WITH US
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