Genesis 1

Nothing like starting the new year off with a VERY meaty Bible Study series! We begin our study of the book of Genesis this week with Genesis, Chapter 1.

The book we will use as a guide is William Kroll's Genesis: a God of Purpose, a People of Promise. To take a look at one place the book can be ordered online, click here. My hope is that we can have it available soon in the Second Baptist Bookstore, too. Copies also are available at CPO. It is a sixteen-chapter study guide, and we have 32 weeks for this study, so my plan is to spend two weeks on each study guide chapter. For instance, chapter one in the guide covers Genesis 1 & 2, so I'll teach on Genesis 1 this week and Genesis 2 next week. I'll work to keep everyone posted of specifically how we will break up the study as we go.

Since the first lesson is on creation, I've taken the liberty of compiling a sort of "primer" handout that will be available in class, but also can be accessed as a PDF file by clicking here. The handout covers the very basics of "new earth" and "old earth" theology, the four main Christian views of the creation timeline, an explanation of the "gap theory," and a few other items that make for pretty good groundwork for the study. I'm also posting this week's lesson notes here. Some have had trouble downloading the files posted in the past as lesson notes in Microsoft Word, so I'm trying to save everything as a PDF now, in the hopes it will work better. Let me know if you have difficulty.