notes from Creation Seminar part 2a

Creation Seminar: Part 2A
October 7, 2007

The Garden of Eden (Part 1)

Colossians 1:16; Matthew 19:14; Mark 10:6; Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
Adam was the first man (1 Corinthians 15:45)
Questions to be covered: What was it like before the Flood came? How can a man live to be over 900 years old? Have people seen living dinosaurs? (People used to have a different name for dinosaurs: dragons). What was the original creation like? What did people eat before the Flood came? Where did all the water from the Flood come from? Where did it go? Where there really giant people over 10 feet tall? (Genesis 6:4).
2 Peter 3:3 and 3:4 – Did you know that there are people who scoff at the Bible? They are “willingly ignorant” (dumb on purpose)
Everything obeys the voice of God (except people)
2 Peter 3:6 (referring to the global Flood)
2 Peter 3:7 (referring to the coming Judgment of mankind)
The scoffers are ignorant of 1) The Creation, 2) The Flood, and 3) The coming Judgment
Genesis 1:1&5 – the first day (not “one day” or “a day”)
The “Gap Theory” was made up in 1814 by a Scottish preacher named Thomas Chalmers
Genesis 1:2 (“unformed and unfilled”); Jeremiah 4:23-25 (this passage does not refer to the Creation); Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:17; Genesis 2:2&3; Hebrews 4:4 (“the seventh day”).
Lucifer could not have fallen before the Creation!
Romans 5:12&14; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 (there was not death before Adam’s sin)
Death is an enemy (see 1 Corinthians 15:26). Plants don’t “die” in the biblical sense: they wither and they fade…more on future videos
Genesis 1:28 (“replenish” used to mean “to fill” in 1611 when this passage was translated). English words change meanings all the time. (James 2:3; Romans 1:13)
Psalm 119:89 (God promised to preserve His Word – He did not promise to preserve the English language)
Ezekiel 28:12-15 tells when Lucifer fell from heaven (he was created, he was in Eden, he was in Eden until he sinned). Eden was made after Adam was created. See also Ezekiel 28:2-5, 17 and Job 38:4&7. Angels must have been made on Day 1 or Day 2.
Everything was good at the end of the creation week – so Lucifer could not have become evil until some time later.
Revelation 21:1 (we are still on the first earth, we are waiting for a new heaven and earth)
Angels were made to be ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:13-14); so if you are a Christian, you have guardian angels
Problems with the “Gap Theory”:
 It was invented in 1814 by Thomas Chalmers
 It violates scriptures: Gen. 1:5; Gen. 2:2-3; Ex. 20:11; Heb. 4:4)
 It puts death before Adam’s sin (violates Rom. 5:12; 1 Cor. 15:21)
 It has satan fall before Day 7 (violates Gen. 1:31; Gen. 2:8; Ezek. 28:12-15)
Questions to ask “Gap Theory” believers:
 Was there death before Adam’s sin?
 When did satan fall?
 Was satan already the “god of this world” when God gave Adam dominion over the earth?
 Thousands of species of living animals are found as fossils. Did God re-create these?
 When God said everything was “very good” was satan evil and were Adam and Eve standing on thousands of dead plants and animals?
 Wouldn’t Noah’s Flood have erased all evidence of the “billions of years” taught in the gap theory?
 What did God mean in Exodus 20:11 and 31:17?
 Does everyone who reads the Bible need some ‘guru’ to tell them what the Bible says?
 Why can the word “let” in Romans 1:13 change meanings in 400 years, but the word “replenish” cannot?
 Why do you need a gap? What took place during this time?
 Why does Revelation 21:1 state that the earth we live on now is the “first” earth if it really is not?
 Was Adam “the first man” as 1 Corinthians 15:45 says?
“Day-Age Theory”: is a “day” really a “long period of time”? (refer to Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8).
God is not locked into (limited by) time, space, and matter like we are. Therefore there is no time before creation (God created time).
Genesis 1:11-19
No professor of Hebrew believes that the word “day” in Genesis 1:1-11 means anything other than 1 literal 24-hour day.
There are 3 meanings of the word “day”: a 24-hour day, about 12 hours of day (time), and the day of the Lord.
Hutton (1795), Chalmers (1814), and Darwin (1859)
75% of all children raised in Christian homes who attend public schools will reject the Christian faith by their first year of college (www.jeremiahfilms.com – video: Let My Children Go)
Genesis 1:6 (what is a firmament?); Genesis 1:20 (the birds fly in the firmament – the first heaven)
Genesis 1:14&16 (the sun, planets and stars are in the second heaven)
2 Corinthians 12:2 (God lives in the third heaven)
Psalm 19:1
Genesis 1:7 – there was water under and above the “sky” (firmament). See also Psalm 148:4.