Favor From the Beginning
In Genesis 1-3, explore the concept of favor from the beginning of creation. Reflect on God's declaration of goodness, ponder contrasting views on God's character, and consider reconciling perceptions of God in the Old and New Testaments. Delve into the question of whether God can be perceived as a bully, and ponder Dr. Dawkins' contrasting perspectives on Jesus and the God of the Old Testament.
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Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Favor From the Beginning
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 And God saw that it was good. 1:1, 4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 And God saw that it was good. 1:1, 4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25 God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. -1:31
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Dr. Richard Dawkins, The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Dr. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion The God Delusion
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God really a bully?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God really a bully? How does one reconcile the God of the OT with Jesus, the God of the NT?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God really a bully? How does one reconcile the God of the OT with Jesus, the God of the NT? What is it that Dr. Dawkins sees in Jesus that he does not see in God the Father in the OT?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God really a bully? How does one reconcile the God of the OT with Jesus, the God of the NT? What is it that Dr. Dawkins sees in Jesus that he does not see in God the Father in the OT? Grace
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God a bully or the God of grace?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God a bully or the God of grace? What is a bully?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God a bully or the God of grace? What is a bully? -a blustering, browbeating person; one who is habitually cruel, insulting or threatening to those who are weaker, smaller or in some way vulnerable Merriam-Webster.com
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God a bully or the God of grace? What is grace?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God a bully or the God of grace? What is grace? -unmerited favor
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God a bully or the God of grace? What is grace? -unmerited favor Is God threatening, cruel and insulting or God of unmerited favor?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why is there something instead of nothing?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why is there something instead of nothing? Because of God
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why is there something instead of nothing? Because of God and because He wanted to
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why is there something instead of nothing? Because of God and because He wanted to and for us to enjoy!
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why is there something instead of nothing? Because of God and because He wanted to and for us to enjoy!
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why did God say what He created was good ? For whom or what was it good ?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why did God say what He created was good ? For whom or what was it good ? Genesis 1:26-31
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why did God say what He created was good ? For whom or what was it good ? Genesis 1:26-31 26 Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. -v.26 ESV
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why did God say what He created was good ? For whom or what was it good ? Genesis 1:26-31 And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. -v.28 ESV
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Why did God say what He created was good ? For whom or what was it good ? Genesis 1:26-31 God created the world for us and His glory.
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 How does God glorify Himself in having made the world for us, our favor?
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 How does God glorify Himself in having made the world for us, our favor? When we take dominion over the world as He has commanded us, in His way(s).
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 How does God glorify Himself in having made the world for us, our favor? When we take dominion over the world as He has commanded us, in His way(s). 31When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. John 13:31-32 ESV
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 How does God glorify Himself in having made the world for us, our favor? Part of exercising our dominion is to subject all things to Christ Jesus.
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 18 And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. -Mt. 28:18-20 ESV
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 you have crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection under his feet. Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. Hebrews 2:7b-8
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. Eph. 1:22-23 ESV
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 For God has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when it says, all things are put in subjection, it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. -1 Cor. 15:27 ESV
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 God Favored man:
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 God Favored man: 1. Entrusting His creation to man
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 God Favored man: 1. Entrusting His creation to man 2. Creating woman
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 God Favored man: 1. Entrusting His creation to man 2. Creating woman 3. Gave man purpose
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Did God s Favor end in the Garden of Eden? Genesis 2-3
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Did God s Favor end in the Garden of Eden? Genesis 2-3 Even when Adam and Eve sinned God provided His favor.
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15 ESV
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15 ESV Jesus would crush Satan!
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 God s discipline is to man s favor.
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 God s discipline is to man s favor. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. Hebrews 12:6 ESV
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 God s discipline is to man s favor. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. Hebrews 12:6 ESV God disciplines man so that he/she will know what is right and what is wrong what is pleasing to Him and leads to life with Him.
Favor From the Beginning Genesis 1-3 Is God a bully or a God of favor from the very beginning?
