Genesis

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Genesis

• In the beginning, when God created the
  universe... (Genesis 11 GN)

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• In the beginning the Word already existed the
  Word was with God and the Word was God.. (John
  11 GN)
• In the beginningGod was with God
• before the beginning of time. (Titus 12 GN)
• I am the first and the last," says the Lord God
  Almighty, who is, who was, and who is to come.
  (Revelation 18)

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• Were you there when I made the world? If you
  know so much, tell me about it. Who decided how
  large it would be? Who stretched the measuring
  line over it? Do you know all the answers? What
  holds up the pillars that support the earth? Who
  laid the cornerstone of the world? In the dawn of
  that day the stars sang together, and the
  heavenly beings shouted for joy. (Job 384-7
  GN)

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Gods hand in evolution?

• There is no greater love than to lay down ones
  life for ones friends. (John 1513 NLT)
• Instead, let love make you serve one another.
  For the whole Law is summed up in one
  commandment Love your neighbor as you love
  yourself. (Galatians 513-14 GN)

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• be humble toward one another, always
  considering others better than yourselves. And
  look out for one another's interests, not just
  for your own. (Philippians 23 GN)
• In brotherly love let your feelings of deep
  affection for one another come to expression and
  regard others as more important than yourself.
  (Romans 1210 NJB)

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• He told him, You may eat the fruit of any tree
  in the garden, except the tree that gives
  knowledge of what is good and what is bad. You
  must not eat the fruit of that tree if you do,
  you will die the same day. (Genesis 216,17
  GN)

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• Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his
  angels fought against the dragon, who fought back
  with his angels but the dragon was defeated, and
  he and his angels were not allowed to stay in
  heaven any longer. 
• The huge dragon was thrown out, that ancient
  serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived
  the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and
  all his angels with him. (Revelation 127-9 , GN)

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• Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message
  from the Sovereign LORD In your great pride you
  claim, I am a god! I sit on a divine throne in
  the heart of the sea. But you are only a man and
  not a god, though you boast that you are like a
  godSon of man, weep for the king of Tyre. Give
  him this message from the Sovereign LORD

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• You were the perfection of wisdom and beauty. You
  were in Eden, the garden of God. Your clothing
  was adorned with every precious stone red
  carnelian, chrysolite, white moonstone, beryl,
  onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald
  all beautifully crafted for you and set in the
  finest gold. They were given to you on the day
  you were created.

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• I and anointed you as the mighty angelic
  guardian. You had access to the holy mountain of
  God and walked among the stones of fire. You were
  blameless in all you did from the day you were
  created until the day evil was found in you. Your
  great wealth filled you with violence, and you
  sinned. So I banished you from the mountain of
  God. I expelled you, O mighty guardian, from your
  place among the stones of fire. Your heart was
  filled with pride because of all your beauty. You
  corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your
  splendor. So I threw you to the earth and exposed
  you to the curious gaze of kings (Ezekiel 282,
  11-17 - NLT).

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• How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
  of the morning! How you are cut down to the
  ground, You who weakened the nations! For you
  have said in your heart I will ascend into
  heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
  God I will also sit on the mount of the
  congregation On the farthest sides of the north
  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I
  will be like the Most High. (Isaiah 1412-14 -
  NKJV)

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• All this I will give you, the Devil said, if
  you kneel down and worship me. Then Jesus
  answered, Go away, Satan! The scripture says,
  Worship the Lord your God and serve only him!
  Then the Devil left Jesus and angels came and
  helped him. (Matthew 49-11 GN)

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• Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the
  wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to
  the woman, Did God really say, You must not eat
  from any tree in the garden? 
• You may eat the fruit of any tree in the
  garden, except (Genesis 216 GN)

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• We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,
  the woman answered, except the tree in the
  middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of
  that tree or even touch it if we do, we will
  die. The snake replied, Thats not true you
  will not die.

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• God said that because he knows that when you eat
  it, you will be like God and know what is good
  and what is bad . (Genesis 31-5 GN)
• God spoke Let us make human beings in our
  image, make them reflecting our natureGod
  created human beings he created them godlike,
  reflecting God's nature. (Genesis 126,27 The
  Message)

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• The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how
  good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought
  how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she
  took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave
  some to her husband, and he also ate it.
  (Genesis 36 GN)

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• That evening they heard the LORD God walking in
  the garden, and they hid from him among the
  trees. But the LORD God called out to the man,
  Where are you? He answered, I heard you in the
  garden I was afraid and hid from you, because I
  was naked. (Genesis 38,9 GN)

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What is sin?

• Lies believed about the character of God
• Broken love and trust
• Rebellion/lawlessness

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• anything that is not based on faith trust is
  sin (Romans 1423).

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• Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness,
  and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 34 NKJV)
• Anomia Nomia is law, and so anomia is
  literally lawlessness.

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What is sin?

• Lies believed about the character of God
• Broken love and trust
• Rebellion/lawlessness

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• Symptom
• Headache and fever
• Etiology
• Meningitis
• Treatment
• Antibiotics

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• Symptom
• Eating the fruit (breaking the rules fear)
• Etiology
• Believed lies about God broken love and trust
• Treatment
• Truth about God

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• In the middle of the garden stood the tree that
  gives life and the tree that gives knowledge of
  what is good and what is bad (Genesis 29).

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• This earth is a spectacle for the whole world of
  angels (1 Corinthians 49 - GN)
• God revealed to these prophets that their work
  was not for their own benefit, but for yours, as
  they spoke about those things which you have now
  heard from the messengers who announced the Good
  News by the power of the Holy Spirit sent from
  heaven. These are things which even the angels
  would like to understand (1 Peter 112 GN).
• Through the Son, then, God decided to bring the
  whole universe back to himself. God made peace
  through his Sons blood on the cross and so
  brought back to himself all things, both on earth
  and in heaven (Colossians 120-22 - GN)

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• For we are not fighting against human beings but
  against the wicked spiritual forces in the
  heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and
  cosmic powers of this dark age. (Ephesians 612
  GN)