Do we have to believe the biblical account of creation on “blind faith”? Or is there solid scientific evidence for the biblical account? Thomas Purifoy Jr. provides some evidence for you to evaluate in the documentary Is Genesis History? If you will click on the link, you will find an introduction and overview as well … Continue reading –>
You can view an in-depth discussion of The Creation; in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris. Click on the image to view: With thanks to Hope Channel – Television that will change your life.
Continue reading -->The creation of humans is God’s last act of Creation, at least in the Genesis account. Humans are the culmination of the whole earthly creation, the purpose for which the earth was made. Read Genesis 1:26-29 and Genesis 2:7. What is the connection between these two different versions in regard to the creation of humanity? That God has … Continue reading –>
Read Genesis 2:2-3, and Exodus 20:8-11. Why is the seventh-day Sabbath related to Creation? How does this connection impact how we keep the Sabbath? It is precisely because “God ended” His works of Creation that He instituted the Sabbath. The seventh-day Sabbath is, therefore, the expression of our faith that God finished His work then, and that He … Continue reading –>
Read Genesis 1:4, Genesis 1:10, Genesis 1:12, Genesis 1:18, Genesis 1:21, Genesis 1:25, Genesis 1:31, and Genesis 2:1-3. What is the significance of the refrain “it was good” in the first Creation account? What is the implied lesson contained in the conclusion of Creation (Genesis 2:1-3)? At each step of the Creation account, God evaluates His work as tov, “good.” It is generally understood that this … Continue reading –>
Key Thought: The Bible Bible begins with God’s acts of creation. The creation marks the beginning of human and Biblical history. April 2, 2022 1. Have a volunteer read Genesis 1:1-4. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage. What is the significance of the … Continue reading –>
Welcome to the second quarter of Sabbath School Lessons The book of Genesis offers us so many and vast topics from which to choose a theme hymn. As we are starting at the very beginning, I would like to give praise to our Creator of heaven and earth in singing Hymn 320 – Lord of … Continue reading –>
Read Psalm 100:1-3. What is the human response to the God of Creation, and why? In Genesis chapter 1, the first message of the Creation account is “God.” We already hear it in the translation: “In the beginning God” (Genesis 1:1). In the first line (Genesis 1:1), the word “God” is placed in the middle of the … Continue reading –>
Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study: Psalm 100:1-3, Genesis 1:1-2:25, Exodus 20:8-11, Exodus 40:33, Matthew 25:14-30, Matthew 19:7-9. Memory Text: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1, NKJV). The book of Genesis and, hence, the whole Bible begins with God’s acts of Creation. This fact is very important because it means that our creation marks the … Continue reading –>
THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING Genesis is about Jesus: Jesus our Creator, Jesus our Sustainer, Jesus our Redeemer. Writing millennia after the Genesis text itself had been penned by Moses, and reaching back across those ages to the patriarch’s very words, the apostle John reveals Jesus in the Creation account: “In the beginning was the … Continue reading –>
