We know we’re supposed to be looking for something. It’s got something to do with "happiness"—but what is it: Money? Success? Family? Friends? Self-sacrifice? Beating your competitors? All of these? None of these? Confusing and unsettling, isn’t it?
Perhaps the only way to find out where we are in the human drama, and where we should be going, is to go back to the very beginning.
Human beginnings were once the domain of philosophers, religious leaders, college "bull sessions," park-bench debates, and barroom brawls. But now "science" has gotten into the act.
In the beginning was hydrogen. At first that hydrogen was pressed together into some incredibly dense ball of matter. Then, for reasons we may never fully understand, that ball of matter exploded in a "Big Bang" that sent radiation, gas, and dust rushing out into the ever-expanding reaches of our universe. Under the influence of gravity, particles began to collect to form galaxies. Within those galaxies, stars began to shine. Around those stars, cold material collected to form planets. Of all the millions and billions of planets that must have formed in a manner like this, one is this tiny chunk of rock we call home, the earth.
At first the earth was quite different from what it is now. Lightning flashed back and forth in an atmosphere of methane and ammonia for perhaps a billion years, producing molecules that rained down into the ancient oceans. Then, just by chance, a group of molecules got together that could reproduce, and life on earth began.
About 600 million years ago, fossils first began to form, in abundance, of those early, simple kinds of life, forms like the trilobites. About 400 million years ago, the first land plants and animals appeared in the sequence. About four million years ago, certain apes took those first upright steps toward becoming human beings.
People are the first animals able to look back over the history of their own development. As we do so, we learn things that help us understand ourselves and our nature. Why do we do things harmful to our own kind? It’s that "jungle fight for survival" that brought us into being in the first place.
Evolution" is a philosophical and speculative theory, of recent origin, whereby it is sought to account for the various elements and compounds of the inorganic world, and also for the countless species of living creatures in the organic world.
If we were to compress the time since the Big Bang into one year, and make the time of the Big Bang January 1,
The Earth was formed in mid-September.
The mammals appeared on December 26.
All human prehistory (from the first known stone tools) and history have occurred in the last 1/2 hour of New Year’s Eve.
Thus, all of human history is but a fleeting instant on the cosmic timescale.
The Universe is probably 10-20 billion years old. Our Solar System is probably 4-5 billion years old.
We don’t know whether the Universe has an "end" or not; we are not completely sure even of the full meaning of the question.
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
This word is principally applied to the act of bringing things into existence that did not exist before. This is expressed in #Heb 11:3 "things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." It is also applied to making new things out of material already in existence, thus, though man was ‘made’ of the dust of the ground, #Ge 2:7, he is also said to have been created, the same Hebrew word, bara, being used in #Ge 1:1 for the creation of the world, that is used in #Ge 5:1,2, for the creation of man. The passage in He 11$ is important, because as men have no idea how anything can be brought into existence from nothing, they have talked of ‘the eternity of matter;’ the passage says it is ‘by faith we understand’ that the worlds were made by the word of God, so that seen things were not made of what is apparent.
Speed: car, voice, light.
¶ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
DAY1 3 ¶ And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
DAY2 6 ¶ And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
DAY3 11 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth"; and it was so.
DAY4 14 ¶ And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years;
DAY5 21 And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good.
First command, mission to living creatures:
22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth."
24 ¶ And God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind"; and it was so.
DAY6 And God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
3:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Man is physicial and spiritual.he is a creature and a son.
Physical , formed of the dust. Spiritual as a result of breath of god. Creature of 2 world:natural, spiritual.racial and individual.
DISCTINCTIONS
PLANTS: SENSE AWARENESS
ANIMALS: SELF AWARENESS
HUMANS: GOD AWARENESS
First command:
Obedience: 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die."
Internship: 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Woman created
Missiomn: 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
He know adam is going to fall.
31 ¶ And God saw every thing that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Like Jesus and Judas.
Jesus knew from the beginning who should betray him" #Joh 6:64
Even satan was good:
Isa 14:12 "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!
Isa 14:13 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;
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’
Isa 14:15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
Space journeys.
Rev 3:20
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me
4:1
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this."
