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Intro
- Edenic Theology & Temple Theology

II. “Decreation”: Before Earth was Created

- Described as formless and void
- Dark

III. Creation: Creation

A. Gen 1:1-3:8
Gen 1:1-31 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void,
and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the
waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good; and
God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.
And there was evening and there was morning, one day. 6 Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the
midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." 7 God made the expanse, and separated
the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8
God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. 9 Then God
said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was
so. 10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it
was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the
earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation,
plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw
that it was good. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day. 14 Then God said, "Let there
be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for
seasons and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on
the earth"; and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the
lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. 17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens
to give light on the earth, 18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the
darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. 20
Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the
open expanse of the heavens." 21 God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves,
with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was
good. 22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds
multiply on the earth." 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24 Then God said, "Let
the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after
their kind"; and it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their
kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 26 Then God
said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea
and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth." 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male
and female He created them. 28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every
living thing that moves on the earth." 29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding
seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for
you; 30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the
earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. 31 God saw all that He had
made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Gen 2:1-25 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. 2 By the seventh day God
completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He
had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work
which God had created and made. 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were
created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. 5 Now no shrub of the field was yet in the
earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and
there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole
surface of the ground. 7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 The LORD God planted a garden toward
the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. 9 Out of the ground the LORD
God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to
water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it
flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 The gold of that land is good; the
bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the
whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is
the Euphrates. 15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it
and keep it. 16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat
freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat
from it you will surely die." 18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will
make him a helper suitable for him." 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field
and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the
man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of
the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 So
the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and
closed up the flesh at that place. 22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken
from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man 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." 24 For this reason a man shall
leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the
man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Gen 3:1-8 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?" 2 The
woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; 3 but from the fruit of the
tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will
die.'" 4 The serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die! 5 "For God knows that in the day you eat
from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 When the woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to
make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. 7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together and made themselves loin coverings. 8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD
God among the trees of the garden.
B. Parallels to Revelation
- Tree of Life