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GOD SEES THAT HIS WORK IS GOOD (GENESIS 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31)
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Against any dualistic notion that heaven is good while earth is bad, Genesis
declares on each day of creation that “God saw that it was good” (Gen. 1:4, 10,
12, 18, 21, 25). On the sixth day, with the creation of humanity, God saw that
it was “very good” (Gen. 1:31). People—the agents through whom sin is soon to
enter God’s creation—are nonetheless “very good.” There is simply no support in
Genesis for the notion, which somehow entered Christian imagination, that the
world is irredeemably evil and the only salvation is an escape into an
immaterial spiritual world, much less for the notion that while we are on earth
we should spend our time in “spiritual” tasks rather than “material” ones. There
is no divorce of the spiritual from the material in God’s good world.
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Table of Contents
* Introduction to Genesis 1-11
* God Creates the World (Genesis 1:1-2:3)
* God Works to Create the World (Genesis 1:1-25)
* God Brings the Material World into Being (Genesis 1:2)
* God’s Creation Takes Work (Genesis 1:3-25; 2:7)
* Creation Is of God, but Is Not Identical with God (Genesis 1:11)
* God Sees that His Work Is Good (Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31)
* God Works Relationally (Genesis 1:26a)
* God Limits His Work, Resting on the Seventh Day (Genesis 2:1-3)
* God Creates and Equips People to Work (Genesis 1:26-2:25)
* People Are Created in God's Image (Genesis 1:26, 27; 5:1)
* Dominion (Genesis 1:26; 2:5)
* Relationships and Work (Genesis 1:27; 2:18, 21-25)
* Fruitfulness/Growth (Genesis 1:28; 2:15, 19-20)
* Provision (Genesis 1:29-30; 2:8-14)
* God Sets Limits (Genesis 2:3; 2:17)
* The Work of the “Creation Mandate” (Genesis 1:28, 2:15)
* People Fall into Sin in Work (Genesis 3:1-24)
* People Work in a Fallen Creation (Genesis 4-8)
* The First Murder (Genesis 4:1-25)
* God Calls Noah and Creates a New World (Genesis 6:9-8:19)
* God Works to Keep His Promise (Genesis 9-11)
* God’s Covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:1-19)
* Noah’s Fall (Genesis 9:20-29)
* Noah's Descendants and the Tower of Babel (Genesis 10:1-11:32)
* Conclusions from Genesis 1-11
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