PPT-God Formed the Human: Humanity As and In Creation

God and Creation 2011 David W Opderbeck Licensed Under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Humans as Created beings Gen 12628 Then God said Let us make mankind in our image in our likeness so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky over the livestock and all the wild animals. Answer: The work of creation is God making all things from nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, all very good.. Reality. At the foundation of all our thinking is the certainty that ourselves and the universe we live in are real!. The Big Story. Understanding the Christian Worldview as a Great Drama, and the Role We Were Created to Play in It. THE COSMIC DRAMA. Our Need for Context. The individual stories of our lives are lived within the context of a transcendent all-encompassing story or meta-narrative.. Dignan. . February 15, 2015. Theology and Creation. Humanism. Religious. Naturalism. Panentheism. Traditional Theism. Non-theistic. Goodness of human beings. Seek solely rational ways of solving human problems. And Evolution. Lecture Road-Map. A . robust view of Christian theism which provides a matrix within which the natural sciences in general, and evolutionary biology, can happily . flourish.. . The . Christian doctrine of. God and Creation. © . 2011 . David W. . Opderbeck. Licensed Under Creative Commons Attribution / Share-Alike. Telos. Does creation have a goal or purpose (a . telos. )?. If God knew or could have known that evil, sin and suffering would corrupt creation, why did He create?. ALL IS VANITY. “under the sun”. “vanity”. ALL IS VANITY. Creation does not change. Romans . 8:20 . For the creation was subjected to . futility..... ALL IS VANITY. Nothing fully satisfies . ALL IS VANITY. Pastor Samuel Berry III.. Lesson Objective. Each listener to have a clear understanding of the sinful state of . humanity.. To see the divine intervention of God, on humanity's downward spiral in sin.. r. omans 1:18-3:21. 1:18-32 the godlessness and wickedness of humanity. g. odlessness and wickedness (vs 18). s. uppress the truth (regarding god) (vs18-20). a. refusal to worship (vs 21). d. istorted thinking and idolatry (vs 21-22a, 24a). Part 1 = Physical. Luke 1:26-38 John 1:14-15. 4 ways of Entering the World. 1. Creation. 2. Formation. 3. Generation. 4. Incarnation. Hypostatic Union. Union of deity and humanity in one person. Laaf. …. Frankenstein’s Legacy. Robots, Post-Humans, and the Technological Singularity. Frankenquiz. Who is Frankenstein?. How old is Victor?. What is used to make the creature?. What’s a human being?. Review of Last Week. We were made to be in relationship with God!. God’s Original Plan for Humanity. To be human is to be created. Genesis 1:1. Relationship to God is essential in being human. 1 Chronicles 28:9. Ancestors. Those who have died have never left. The dead are not under the earth. They are in the rustling trees. They are in the crying grass. They are in the moaning rocks. The dead are not under the earth. A reading. Left side. Planet earth is our home. We come to give thanks for the Earth, this world on which we depend;. For the gifts of the earth,. For the beauty of the earth and for the variety and richness of the earth. . (an overview of Genesis 1 – 11). Genesis as an Introduction to the Bible . Creation . Narratives and The Fall. Notice the Plural—narratives . Adam’s Family (not the Addams Family). Noah and the Flood.