Sermon Notes February 23, 2025

God on the Loose at the Beginning                                                                                                                   “God on the Loose”

 

How We See Reality                                                                        

  1. The Greek way – largely _______________ and explanatory.          
  2. The Latin way – primarily concerned with _______________.
  3. The Hebrew way –  concerned with what a thing is ________    and _______________ it work?

 Genesis 1:1-8, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.  And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness He called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. And God said, ‘Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.’ So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse ‘sky.’ And there was evening and there was morning—the second day.”

See Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 1: 31-2:3. 

  1. Are we taking the Bible _________________________?
  2. The real question of creation: Do you have a ____________     _______________________ without a God or with a God?
  3. Molecular biology says: The basic forms of life are ________    ________, but irreducibly complex molecular machines that            _______________ be explained by natural selection working on  variation.
  4. The biggest question of all: How did _______________ come from ________________?