Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study: Gen: 9:15; Isa: 54:9; Gen: 12:1-3, Gal: 3:6-9, Galatians 3:29; Exod: 6:1-8; Jer: 31:33-34. Memory Text: “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine” (Exodus 19:5). Last week left off with the fall of … Continue reading –>
First Deaf Theology Student By Jose Rodrigo Martinez Patron My Seventh-day Adventist mother noticed that I, as a baby, did not respond in our home in Merida, Mexico. She would call my name, and I did not notice. Mother sought help when I was about 2. She sent me to a special needs school that … Continue reading –>
Further Thought: The Bible overflows with calls to sinners and backsliders. Compare Ps: 95:7-8; Isa: 55:1-2, Isaiah 55:6-7; Luke 15:3-7; Luke 19:10. What others can you find? Read Ellen G. White, “The Creation,” pages 44-51; “The Temptation and Fall,” pages 52-62; and “The Plan of Redemption,” pages 63-70, in Patriarchs and Prophets. “There was a gospel sermon, I think, in those three divine … Continue reading –>
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Continue reading -->We tend to believe people we know and instinctively distrust those whom we do not. Eve naturally would have distrusted Satan. Furthermore, any direct attack against God would have made her defensive. What steps, then, did Satan take to bypass Eve’s natural defenses? (Gen: 3:1-6). “Deplorable as was Eve’s transgression and fraught as it was with potential … Continue reading –>
“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen: 2:16-17). This test provided Adam and Eve with … Continue reading –>
Genesis 1:28-29 Notice God’s first spoken words to humankind, at least as they appear in Scripture. He points them to their ability to procreate, to reproduce more of their own kind. He also points them to the earth itself, to the creation, and He tells them to replenish it, to subdue it, and to have … Continue reading –>
Gen: 1:27 The Bible states that God created humankind — male and female — “in His own image” (Gen: 1:27). Based on this idea, answer the following questions: 1. What does it mean that God created us in His own image? In what ways are we “in His own image” (NKJV)? 2. According to the Genesis account, did the … Continue reading –>
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen: 1:1). A scientist had just lectured on the orbits of the planets around the sun, and the orbit of the sun around the center of the galaxy, when an old lady in black tennis shoes rose and said that the earth was a flat disc … Continue reading –>
Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study: Ps: 100:3; Acts 17:26; Gen: 2:7, Genesis 2:18-25; Gen: 1:28-29; Gen: 3:15. Memory Text: “Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; …’ So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:26-27, NRSV). The biblical account … Continue reading –>
