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Saturday, November 26, 2011

reviewing passages on the Created

    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
(Genesis 1:1 ESV)

    So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
(Genesis 1:21 ESV)

    So God created man in his own image,
        in the image of God he created him;
        male and female he created them.
(Genesis 1:27 ESV)

    These are the generations
    of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
    in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
(Genesis 2:4 ESV)

    This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
(Genesis 5:1-3 ESV)

Noah's favor = mercy from God
    The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
(Genesis 6:5-8 ESV)

    And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
    “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
(Exodus 34:10-16 ESV)

    “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.
(Deuteronomy 4:32-35 ESV)

    For I will proclaim the name of the LORD;
        ascribe greatness to our God!
    “The Rock, his work is perfect,
        for all his ways are justice.
    A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
        just and upright is he.
    They have dealt corruptly with him;
        they are no longer his children because they are blemished;
        they are a crooked and twisted generation.
    Do you thus repay the LORD,
        you foolish and senseless people?
    Is not he your father, who created you,
        who made you and established you?
(Deuteronomy 32:3-6 ESV)

    The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours;
        the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
    The north and the south, you have created them;
        Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
    You have a mighty arm;
        strong is your hand, high your right hand.
(Psalm 89:11-13 ESV)

        How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever?
        How long will your wrath burn like fire?
    Remember how short my time is!
        For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
    What man can live and never see death?
        Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
    Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,
        which by your faithfulness you swore to David?
    Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,
        and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,
    with which your enemies mock, O LORD,
        with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
    Blessed be the LORD forever!
    Amen and Amen.
(Psalm 89:46-52 ESV)

    But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever;
        you are remembered throughout all generations.
    You will arise and have pity on Zion;
        it is the time to favor her;
        the appointed time has come.
    For your servants hold her stones dear
        and have pity on her dust.
    Nations will fear the name of the LORD,
        and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
    For the LORD builds up Zion;
        he appears in his glory;
    he regards the prayer of the destitute
        and does not despise their prayer.
    Let this be recorded for a generation to come,
        so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD:
(Psalm 102:12-18 ESV)

    When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,
        and you renew the face of the ground.
    May the glory of the LORD endure forever;
        may the LORD rejoice in his works,
    who looks on the earth and it trembles,
        who touches the mountains and they smoke!
    I will sing to the LORD as long as I live;
        I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
    May my meditation be pleasing to him,
        for I rejoice in the LORD.
(Psalm 104:30-34 ESV)

    Praise the LORD!
    Praise the LORD from the heavens;
        praise him in the heights!
    Praise him, all his angels;
        praise him, all his hosts!
    Praise him, sun and moon,
        praise him, all you shining stars!
    Praise him, you highest heavens,
        and you waters above the heavens!
    Let them praise the name of the LORD!
        For he commanded and they were created.
    And he established them forever and ever;
        he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.
    Praise the LORD from the earth,
        you great sea creatures and all deeps,
(Psalm 148:1-7 ESV)

      To whom then will you compare me,
        that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
    Lift up your eyes on high and see:
        who created these
?
    He who brings out their host by number,
        calling them all by name,
    by the greatness of his might,
        and because he is strong in power
        not one is missing.
(Isaiah 40:25-26 ESV)

    When the poor and needy seek water,
        and there is none,
        and their tongue is parched with thirst,
    I the LORD will answer them;
        I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
    I will open rivers on the bare heights,
        and fountains in the midst of the valleys.
    I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
        and the dry land springs of water.
    I will put in the wilderness the cedar,
        the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive.
    I will set in the desert the cypress,
        the plane and the pine together,
    that they may see and know,
        may consider and understand together,
    that the hand of the LORD has done this,
        the Holy One of Israel has created it.

(Isaiah 41:17-20 ESV)

    Behold my servant, whom I uphold,
        my chosen, in whom my soul delights
;
    I have put my Spirit upon him;
        he will bring forth justice to the nations.
    He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice,
        or make it heard in the street;
    a bruised reed he will not break,
        and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;
        he will faithfully bring forth justice.
    He will not grow faint or be discouraged
        till he has established justice in the earth;
        and the coastlands wait for his law.
    Thus says God, the LORD,
        who created the heavens and stretched them out,

        who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
    who gives breath to the people on it
        and spirit to those who walk in it:
    “I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness;
        I will take you by the hand and keep you;
    I will give you as a covenant for the people,
        a light for the nations,
(Isaiah 42:1-6 ESV)

    But now thus says the LORD,
    he who created you, O Jacob,
        he who formed you, O Israel:
    “Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
        I have called you by name, you are mine.
    When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
        and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
    when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
        and the flame shall not consume you.
    For I am the LORD your God,
        the Holy One of Israel, your Savior
.
    I give Egypt as your ransom,
        Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
(Isaiah 43:1-3 ESV)


    I am the LORD, and there is no other,
        besides me there is no God;
        I equip you, though you do not know me,
    that people may know, from the rising of the sun
        and from the west, that there is none besides me;
        I am the LORD, and there is no other.
    I form light and create darkness,
        I make well-being and create calamity,
        I am the LORD, who does all these things.
    “Shower, O heavens, from above,
        and let the clouds rain down righteousness;
    let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;
        let the earth cause them both to sprout;
        I the LORD have created it.
(Isaiah 45:5-8 ESV)

    I made the earth
        and created man on it
;
    it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,
        and I commanded all their host.
    I have stirred him up in righteousness,
        and I will make all his ways level;
    he shall build my city
        and set my exiles free,
    not for price or reward,”
        says the LORD of hosts.
(Isaiah 45:12-13 ESV)

    Truly, you are a God who hides himself,
        O God of Israel, the Savior.
    All of them are put to shame and confounded;
        the makers of idols go in confusion together.
    But Israel is saved by the LORD
        with everlasting salvation
;
    you shall not be put to shame or confounded
        to all eternity.
    For thus says the LORD,
    who created the heavens
        (he is God!),
    who formed the earth and made it
        (he established it;
    he did not create it empty,
        he formed it to be inhabited!):
    “I am the LORD, and there is no other
.
(Isaiah 45:15-18 ESV)

    Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts!
(Malachi 2:10-12 ESV)

Jesus teaches on Creation.
    Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
    And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
(Matthew 19:1-6 ESV)

Jesus affirms Creation and Election.
    For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be. And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
(Mark 13:19-20 ESV)

    Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
(1 Corinthians 11:9 ESV)

    For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand (predestined), that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV)

    Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
(Ephesians 3:7-12 ESV)

    He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 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. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.  
(Colossians 1:15-20 ESV)

    Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
(1 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV)

    Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
(Hebrews 1:1-4 ESV)

    Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
(Hebrews 11:1-3 ESV)

    “Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
        to receive glory and honor and power,
    for you created all things,
        and by your will they existed and were created.

(Revelation 4:11 ESV)

    And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.   
(Revelation 10:5-7 ESV)

If you reject the Doctrine of Creation - you reject the very Words of God Himself and you may as well tear all of these Books from you're Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, Colossians and 1 Timothy, Hebrews and Revelation

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