V. OF THE CREATION
We believe in the Genesis account of creation, and (a) that it is to be accepted
literally, and not allegorically or figuratively; (b) that man was created directly
in God's own image and after His own likeness; (c) that man's creation was not a
matter of evolution or evolutionary change of species, or development through interminable
periods of time from lower to higher forms; (d) that all animal and vegetable life
was made directly, and God's established law was they should bring forth only "after
their kind."
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***(a) Gen. 1:1. "In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth. "
Ex. 20:11. "In six days the Lord made heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that in them is."
Acts 4:24. "And when they heard that, they lifted
up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast
made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is."
Col. 1:16-17. "For by him were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities or powers: all things were created by him,
and for him. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
Heb. 11:3. "Through faith we understand that
the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear."
John 1:3. "All things were made by him; and
without him was not anything made that was made."
Rev. 10:6. "And sware by him that liveth forever
and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are and the earth, and
the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that
there should be time no longer."
Rom. 1:20. "For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead."
Acts 17:23-26. "Whom therefore ye ignorantly
worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein,
seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands,
neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he
giveth to ad life, and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood ad nations
of men."
Jer. 10:12. "He hath made the earth by his power,
he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens
by his discretion."
Neh. 9:6. "Thou hast made heaven, the heaven
of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the
seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all."
*** (b) Gen. 1:26-27. "And God said, Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness....So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. "
I Cor. 11:7. "Man. . . is the image and glory
of God "
*** (c) Gen. 2:7. "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."
Gen. 2:21-23. "And the Lord God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs and closed up
the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made
he a woman, and brought her unto man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man."
(d) Gen. 1:11. "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."
Gen. 1:24. "And God said, Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beast
of the earth after his kind: and it was so."
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