Genesis 1:1-2:3 - The Beginning

Genesis, Chapters 1-2:3  —  The Beginning

1.  What three important things does Gen. 1:1 say:

  a) about God (who He is and what He does)?________________________________________

  b) about everything that exists? ___________________________________________________

  c) about how it came to be? _________________________________(see first words in Gen 1:3,6,9)

2.  How does Genesis 1 reveal that all that is, life, and human existence are not blind chance or accident but God’s intent and will?  (what does “God said” imply?  And how often does that phrase occur?) 

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3.  Genesis 1:2 focuses on the earth as “formless and empty.”  This phrase may give structure to the 6 days of creation:  3 days of forming and 3 days of filling.  Summarize what is created on each day- what order can you find, both vertically and horizontally? 

Day 1	Day 4
Day 2	Day 5
Day 3	Day 6

4.  How does Genesis 1 show a sense of order and progression?

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5.  Genesis 1 has been called a “creation symphony,” showing the distinctively Biblical way of seeing the beginnings of everything, of human life, of history; what do Rev. 21:1-3 and 22:1-3 disclose about its end/goal? 

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6.  Throughout Genesis 1, what does the word good imply?  (how often is it used?)­­­­­­­

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7.  Read Genesis 1:26-27.  What does the phrase “image of God” say?  What does it mean?

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8.  In Exodus 20:11 and 31:16-17, the only other two passages in the Bible which refer to the six Creation days, what is the seventh day for?

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9.  What do you think happened on the 8^th day?

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