Post by pitbull on Oct 29, 2008 3:50:26 GMT -5
DAILY WISDOM
“[If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no rest.” [Proverbs 29:9]
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
DOCTRINES FOUND IN GENESIS
The doctrine of the Trinity [1 John 5:7] is taught in Genesis 1:1-3, 26-27. All three Persons of the Godhead were involved in Creation.
1. The Father (Genesis 1:1)
2. The Son (John 1:1-3,10; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2,10)
3. The Spirit (Genesis 1:2).
The doctrine of separation is taught in Genesis 1:4 when God separated the darkness and the light. [2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 5:8, 11]
The doctrine of two lights for the world is taught in Genesis 1:16 – Jesus as the sun [John 1:7-9; 8:12] and the church as the moon to reflect the light of the sun [Matthew 5:14].
Here you have the first mention of dinosaurs in the Bible in Genesis 1:21. The Hebrew word tanniym is literally translated marine or land monster, dragon, sea-monster, whale. The other mentions in the Bible are of the behemoth [Job 40:15] and the leviathan [Job 40:1; Psalms 74:4; 104:26; Isaiah 27:1].
Genesis 1:26, 29-30 teaches that man has dominion over the earth – not to worship it [Romans 1:25]
There is a dispensation timeline set up by the seven days.
Day 1 – Age of Innocence
Day 2 – Flood of Noah
Day 3 – Start of the “vine” of Abraham, of whom we are grafted into
Day 4 – Start of the Church Age
Day 5 – Time of the Gentiles – seas represent the heathen nations
Day 6 – Tribulation Period or reign of the Beast
Day 7 – Millennial Kingdom of Christ
Since there are only nine families [not species] of fruit trees, that means that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was the tenth – hence God taught the tenth or the tithe belonged unto Him and we are not to touch it in Genesis 2:17.
God established the family as the cornerstone of all human organizations/entities to come, including government, nations, and the church [Genesis 1:27-28; 2:18-24]
In Genesis 3:1, we find that the Devil for the first time distorts or questions the Word of God. This is the source of the modern “translations” of the Bible since they all cause people to question the Bible rather than trust it.
RELIGIOUS AWARENESS
What is the religious make-up of your area? For example, here is what Wikipedia [yes, I know it is not a reliable academic source] says about Ohio:
The first religious settlement in Ohio was founded in 1751 among the Huron Indians in what is now the Sandusky area. Shortly afterward, Moravian missionaries converted some Delaware Indians to Christianity; the first Protestant church was founded by Congregationalist ministers at Marietta in 1788. Dissident religious sects such as the Shakers, Amish, and Quakers moved into Ohio from the early 18th century onward, but the majority of settlers in the early 19th century were Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Disciples of Christ, and Episcopalians.
The largest Protestant denominations and their adherents in 2000 were the United Methodist Church, 566,084; the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 301,749; the Southern Baptist Convention, 200,232; the Presbyterian Church USA, 160,800; the United Church of Christ, 157,180; Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, 142,571; and the American Baptist Churches USA, 117,757. About 6.2 million people (55.1% of the population) declined to be counted as members of any religious organization.