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Greetings, friends, family and partners.

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This is Joe Watson and you're listening to the podcast, Choices We Believe.

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Today you want to talk about creation because we all have questions about it.

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Where did we come from? How did this get started? What's going on?

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We can see through the universe and all the matter,

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there's a beginning, it has a start.

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And in the last episode I talked about how God is the uncaused cause.

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And the reason I would say that is because God exists outside of time.

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He exists in a different dimension and our existence is within linear time.

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And this is an impact on all the arguments about creation and evolution and all that stuff.

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So let's get started. Since I believe the Bible is true,

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then how does creation fit into a six-day history,

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history that we can observe?

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There are many debates on a varying degrees of civility,

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some of them get pretty hostile, that continue about creation or evolution.

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Many creationists have attempted to come up with explanations about how millions of years' worth of earth history

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can be neatly fit into the biblical narrative.

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One such explanation says the ancient time periods that God calls a day was millions of our years.

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Based on how we measure time in our existence, okay?

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They call it time compression, saying that God's view and our view is opposite to each other.

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He's looking top down and we're looking bottom up.

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Kind of like a funnel that we're looking up through.

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A million years for us was like a day to him.

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And we're reading Genesis 1, 1 in the beginning, God.

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Just that. Just stop right there. We'll say in the beginning, God.

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So that says that God establishes God being in the beginning.

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And that also means that he starts linear time.

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From his spirit realm, which is parent to the physical realm, he started time.

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And in doing so, he started time.

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He started the ability for us humans to have science.

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Science cannot exist outside of time.

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In order to test something, there is an element of time.

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When we initiate a test, even if it occurs in a nanosecond of time,

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it's got to be in place. Time element has to be there.

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With observation, there has to be something to observe.

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Matter in some degree, whether gas fluid or solid, it must be.

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It must exist. And time itself has to be an element.

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Even time is measurable. Therefore, without time,

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linear time is what I'm speaking of. The time space continuum

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and something to measure. There's no testing.

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There's no theory and no science. It is accepted that our universe and

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everything that matters, all matter and what matters to us,

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ha ha, had a beginning. So, since we all agree, there has to be

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a beginning. The debate is what caused the start.

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What? Where's the ignition? And that's what brings us to Genesis 1.1

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in the beginning, God. God created the heavens and the earth,

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and the earth was without form and empty, and darkness was on the face of the

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deep, and the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.

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I want to insert here that I'm Bible verses that I'm reading. I'm going to

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be reading from King James, but my American lingo sometimes takes out the

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TH and just puts an S. So, some of the words will be

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sounding different from the regular King James, but they're derived from

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the King James version of the Bible. Okay?

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Just so everybody's on the same page, so to speak.

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So, God created, he's the one responsible to started all of this.

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And so, he's saying that the earth was without form,

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and that there was water covering it. So, I've heard people talk about

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that was the junction, the insertion, or the gap that dinosaurs had their own

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existence separate from what we have today, and they put that element in there

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and call it a gap, but I don't think so. I think it's just the way that it's

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written, and it comes to us, and dinosaurs existed at the same time.

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The humans and all the domestic and wild animals that we know today

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coexisted at one point in earth's history. Oh, well, let's move on.

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Verse 3, Genesis 1, 3 says, and God said,

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Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw

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the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the

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darkness, and God called the light day, and he called

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darkness night. And the evening and the morning

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were the first day. Okay, here's a few observations.

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The Bible says God said, and you know what? We can measure sound because it's

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vibrations. He vibrated. What do you think about

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string theory? That's an interesting theory, but it's a theory, and the premise

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is that at the core of every atom is a vibrating string that holds the atom

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nucleus together. That's an interesting thought.

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Vibration holds us all together. Also, he created light with his words.

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Light are vibrations that we can measure, and the different intensity of each

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vibration produces a different color in the rainbow.

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Another interesting fact, vibrations. We're all just a bunch of vibrations

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being held together. Nonetheless, going forward,

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God also talks about the first day being evening and morning.

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God evidently divides the day at midday instead of the way we do it at midnight.

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Of course, personally, I'm used to the midnight separation between one day to

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another. I get to sleep through it, whereas the way God does it, we have to

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work through it.

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That's just kind of fun. Let's go on.

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God says that he created and made everything,

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and we are here. He's the one, if you want to put it,

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he's the one guilty of starting it all.

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Did he tell us every detail of what he did? No, he didn't. In fact, to the

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business, when you read Genesis chapter one, you come to one conclusion, but it

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starts over in chapter two, giving a different version of the same account

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or the same events, which is also by all by itself. It's

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interesting. God gave us two views of the same actions that he took.

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One is a step by step, day by day order. The other,

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not so much. It's more events and effects and that sort of thing. But anyway,

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let's go. Too many of us humans are so arrogant when we can't get our heads

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around the reality of God, then we reject him and draw our own

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conclusions. Let me propose to you this. God made

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everything just the way it's stated in Genesis, and while

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he's doing it, he put in an age element in everything he created.

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He created it, aged, matured. After all, when he created the man,

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how old was he? He wasn't a baby. He was already an adult.

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So there was age, a certain amount of age built in

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the first day that the man walked and breathed on the earth.

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Interesting thought, isn't it? Another thing is you can't use science to

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prove or disprove the existence of God. How do you prove a spirit?

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They move around too much. They'll get away from you before you can grab them

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and test them. Nonetheless, Genesis 1 6 says, and God said,

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let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters and let it divide

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the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse and divided the waters

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which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse.

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And so it was God made atmosphere and seas or oceans. We'll get to that in a

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second. And God called the expanse heavens and the

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evening and the morning were the second day.

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So God's measuring time. He's setting an example of how to have

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how to measure time. And we today measure time from a rotation of the earth.

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But we're not rotating yet, are we? So he's

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showing us how he would start to measure time

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based on what he created. And I believe he created

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adding in the elements that we used to measure

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backwards in time. But none of us were there personally. I

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can't experience it because I can't go back in time and see what he did.

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So this is his message to us. Genesis 1 9, God said, let the waters under the

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heavens be gathered together in one place and let the dry land appear.

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And so it was. God called the dry land earth and he called the gathering

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together of the water seas. And God saw that it was good.

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So everything that he created was good. Then verse 11 says, God said, let the

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earth bring forth tender sprouts, the herb seeding

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seed, and the fruit tree producing fruit from its

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kind whose seed was in itself upon the earth and it was so.

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So our vegetables, our herbs, our trees,

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or all have within themselves seed that's used to reproduce the same

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thing. You don't plant one seed and get a different kind of a plant.

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So it's all reproduces itself. Then in verse 12, and the earth brought

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forth tender sprouts, an herb yielding seed after its kind,

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and the tree producing fruit after its kind,

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whose seed was in itself. And God saw that it was good.

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And it was an evening and a morning third day.

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He did all that in the third day. But as we see in verse 14, God said, let there

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be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night.

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And let them be for signs, for seasons, for days, and for years.

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Right here in this statement, the solar system

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is produced. Our plant life was older than the space

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universe, according to what we're reading here in Scripture.

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But God put age into it. He'd flung out the stars and he said that it's for

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signs and seasons, for days and years. Sounds like he's

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establishing the measurement of time. Right here, the system of our time

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is produced. And then in verse 15, he says, let them be for lights in the

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expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.

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And so it was. And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day

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and the smaller light to rule the night and the stars

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also. So in this one action, we have the sun

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that generates its own power and but in a moon that reflects the power

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generated by the sun. It's lesser. What an interesting phenomenon he did that.

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Verse 17 says God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon

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the earth and to rule over the day and the night and to divide between

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the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good

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in the evening and morning, the fourth day. So he's calling this four days long.

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But none of us were there to use our own measurement to figure out how long

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exactly that was. But is that the reality of what we want to

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focus on? Or do we want to focus on the fact that he did it?

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He did it. So let's look at day five and see what we can get into.

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So in verse 20, it starts talking to us about day five.

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God said, let the water swarm with swimmers or fish,

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having a living soul and let birds fly in the air on the face of the

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expanse of the heavens. And God created great sea animals in every living soul

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that creeps with which the water swarmed after their kind and every

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winged fowl after its kind. God saw that it was good.

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So day five, he's put into the air, the birds, and into the oceans. We

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call them oceans these days. Seas, all of the creatures that we

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haven't even really discovered all once that we created. He just put a bunch

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of them down there and they all get along with their way of life.

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And we don't know anything about some of them. We've got, you know, we've seen

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a lot, but I don't think we've discovered them all yet.

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Maybe never. But God blessed them saying, be fruitful, multiply, fill the waters of

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the seas and let the fowl multiply on the earth. And there was evening and morning

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fifth day. On the fifth day, we see all the stuff that he did.

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He also created, he brought forth the living creatures, the cattle, and the

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creepers, and the beasts of the earth, all the animals that we know. And I

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believe my choice is that he created the dinosaurs,

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zinn, as well as all of the cattle and lions and tigers and all of that stuff

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that we, all of the kinds of animals that we know.

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So God made the beasts of the earth after its kind, the cattle after their

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kind, and all the creeping things, whatever the creepers are,

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oh that's creepy. And God saw that it was good.

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So he's got all the animals created. He's created the earth, heavens,

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he's established water, light, dark, plants, animals,

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fish, the whole everything. But he's got his crowning jewel that he's about to do.

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And in verse 26, God said, let us make man in our image after our

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likeness. That's a very interesting way to put that,

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since we believe in one God, but he's saying

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us and our. So how do we know about this us and our what?

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People talk about the triune God, but yet we still have one God.

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So I was praying about this one day and I asked God, how,

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how are you functioning three different ways as one in, he said, put up your

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hand. So hold up your hand, look at it, wiggle your

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fingers. Your fingers can move and operate independently,

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but you only have one hand. And when you close

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all of your fingers, you make a fist. And your fingers work in unison with

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one accord. And God said, I'm three in one with the same purpose,

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the same holiness, the same grace, and the same love for my creation.

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I'm three in one to establish our relationship and me as God and you as

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my people, person, those that are with me.

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And it says that we are like him and our likeness

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and in his image. And so he's established us. We are not God,

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but we are like God. And that's important to remember.

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And then he goes on in verse 26 and says, let them have dominion over the fish

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and the sea, over the fowl of the heavens, over the

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cattle and all the earth and all the creepers that are creeping on the

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earth. That still gets me. That's fun. Verse 27, God created man in his image and

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the image of God, he created him. He created them male and female.

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So God created human mankind, both male and female.

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Something that's important that we're going to look at. Adam and Eve

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in the garden on the next episode of Choices We Believe. Thank you for

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joining me.