God is the Creator and Ruler of all in existence. Because of this, He deserves our worship.
Does your view of God compel you to worship Him with your life?
This is the beginning of “The Gospel Story.”
God, the everlasting Ruler of heaven and earth, created all we see before us.
This isn’t the beginning of God, but it’s the beginning of the story He has allowed us to be a part of.
Genesis 1:1–2:14
The word translated “beginning” in 1:1 is re’shiyth, -רֵאשִׁית – which occurs
fifty-one times in the Old Testament.
It is used at the start of kingdoms (Genesis 10:10), to denote prominence among the nations (Numbers 24:20), and to describe the “first fruits” one is to give to God (Deuteronomy 18:4; Nehemiah 12:44).
The creation of man……
Much debate has been made over what being made in God’s image (1:26) means for humans today.
That the image and likeness of God in man is in three folds: mental, spiritual and moral.
The mental likeness has to do with the intellect of man.
The ability to know and communicate with God who is a rational being makes man a rational being.
The spiritual likeness has to do with emotions (which brings relationship and reaction).
Adam and Eve had fellowship with God, they feared God after the fall (Gen 3:10).
The moral likeness has to do with the will of man.
The self-consciousness in man is a sense of responsibility of right or wrong.
No other part of the creation narrative mentions God breathing “the breath of life” (2:7) into something.
God does that only at the creation of humanity.
Man is more than dust or physical substance.
Man has a spirit.
We can picture it this way….
Adam’s body had just been formed by God from the dust of the earth—a lifeless human body lying on the ground.
Then God leaned over and breathed His own breath of life into the man.
God is the source of life, and He directly placed life within you.
Romans 1:21–23, 25