The Beginning of Life As We Know It

The Story, Chapter 1

• The Story opens with the “Big Bang” of creation.– “God created” (Genesis 1:1).– Three different places are created by God.– Inhabitants of those places are created by God.– The high point of creation? Humanity is VERY

good.

• The Story continues with the “big bang” of “The Fall.”– God gave the freedom and power to choose.– God presented a choice, Genesis 2:9,17.– Adam and Eve made their choice.

• The Story reports the “big bang” of sin’s damage to the human race.– Sin entered the world and separated humanity

from God.– The nature to sin permeates the world.– God chose Noah as a “reboot” for the human

race.

• The Story offers a clue of the ending from the very beginning.– God covered nakedness with the skins of animals.– For God to restore the vision that humans are His

supreme passion required the shedding of blood.– You have incredible value to God.