Intro:
The message of Creation is more important than ever in a world of non-christian homes.

Genesis 1

Genesis is the most important book of the Bible.  If you took Genesis out, the rest of the Book would be incomprehensible.  If you took the Fall of Man from the Bible, the entire world is incomprehensible. 

Genesis, the Book of Origins
The origin of the universe.
The origin of order.
The origin of energy.
The origin of forces that shape the universe.

The Six Days of Creation

3 days forming
3 days filling

The order of creation and the order of evolution are incompatible with each other.  Merging the two ideas sacrifices the teaching of one of the theories.

The age of light from stars (millions of years) and the six days of creation seem incompatible.  Creation was made to appear fully mature, not in its infancy.  The speed of light has not always been a constant.

“Create”

bara - Hebrew word that means “create” (from nothing)
Asah - The word means “form”.

According to WE Vine, the interchangeable use of these words in Genesis chapter one leads us to believe that God created all things, not merely “formed” them.

The Gap

Verse 1 says God created the heaven and the earth.  Later God created the stars.  Does this mean that God re-made the creation?  The first sentence of the Bible has four clauses.  The statements are all related and happen in sequence.  The Bible teaches that death came with Adam’s sin.  There must not have been death before then.  Changing our Biblical interpretation based on current scientific theory will lead to mis-interpretation.

Isaiah 45:18 tells us that the world was not created in vain - empty.  Some would believe that Satan’s sin caused the world to become “vain”.  There is no evidence to say that Satan’s sin caused destruction in the world.  There is also no evidence to say that Satan’s sin was anything but a short time before Adam’s sin.

“Darkness” and “Without form and void”.  The meaning of the words is that the world was incomplete, unfilled.  Isaiah 45:18 says that God didn’t not make creation to be empty.  He intended to fill it.

Faith and Creation

The faith you put in God’s word is tested on the very first verse of the Bible.  If you can believe verse 1, then you can believe everything else that follows.  The Bible claims to be a perfect book and promises judgment to those who reject it.