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BIBLE (73)

• The Bible is the account of God's action in the world and his purpose with all creation. The writing of the Bible took place over sixteen centuries and is the work of over forty human authors. It is a quite amazing collection of 73 books with very different styles all containing the message God desired us to have.

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BIBLE• It is a guide for living life to the full. It gives us a road

map for the perilous journey of life. Or to put it another way, on our voyage through life's ocean, we find our anchor right here.

• It is a treasury of insight as to who we are. We are not meaningless robots, but we are magnificent creatures of a God who loves us and gives us a purpose and a destiny.

• It is a sourcebook for everyday living. We find standards for our conduct, guidelines for knowing right from wrong, principles to help us in a confused society where so often "anything goes."

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BIBLE

• OLD TESTAMENT(46)• The collection of books

comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible

• NEW TESTAMENT(27)• the collection of books

of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible

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How did God create the universe

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Old Testament(46)Genesis the first book in the Bible

First Day

• Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light 'day', and the darkness he called 'night'. And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day." (Gen. 1:2-5).

• Let there be light in the darkness." God ordered the earth, which is like a great ball in the heavens, to rotate once every twenty four hours. That is why we have about twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night. What a great thing God did on the first day in separating the light from the darkness!

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First Day

Day Night

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Second day

• Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.' So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse 'sky'." (Gen. 1:6-8)

• God created the sky around the earth which we call the atmosphere. The atmosphere is the sky which surrounds the world and contains the air we breathe. That same atmosphere protects everything and everyone from the heat of the sun and many other calamities. Without this special sky that God created on the second day, man could not live on the earth.

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Second Day Sky

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Third Day

• And God said, 'Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.' And it was so. God called the dry ground 'land', and the gathered waters he called 'seas'. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.' And it was so…And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day." (Gen. 1:9-11,13)

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Third day

Land & Sea vegetation

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Fourth day

• Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years." (Gen. 1:14) God simply gave the order, and the sun, the moon and the stars came into existence in the sky. God spoke another word, and the earth began to orbit the sun. He spoke again and the moon began to orbit the earth.

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Fourth day

sun Moon & stars

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Fifth Day

• Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.' So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, 'Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.' And there was evening, and there was morning, the fifth day." (Gen. 1:20-23)

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Fifth day

Fish Birds

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Sixth Day

• God created animals and man• Let us make man in our image, in our likeness,

and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Gen. 1:26,27)

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Sixth Day

Animals of various kinds Man & Woman

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Seventh day

• And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

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Seventh DaySabbath

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• "Listen! Open your ears, and come to me. Listen, and your soul will live!" (Isa. 55:3)

• "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." (John 4:24)

• "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free!" (John 8:32)

• "Taste and see that the Lord is good!" (Psa. 34:8

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Thank You

Any Questions• Could you write down all

the books in the bible• Read Genesis