Playlist: Animals, Creation of (topic)
Lessons From the Animals
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughGod created the animals purposefully, bringing them forth from the earth "according to their kind" and calling them good, so that mankind shares with them an earthy origin and mortality. Yet three things set man apart: he alone is made in God's image, he is created male and female, and he alone is given dominion. That dominion …
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Eleven)
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughGod created the birds and fish on day five and the cattle, creeping things, and beasts of the earth on day six, and only afterward created Adam. Genesis 2:19 therefore does not place the animals after Adam. Its simple past verb "formed" is ambiguous in Hebrew and should be read as a past perfect, "had formed," since Scripture …
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Three)
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughGod is the source of all life, and the Word, Jesus Christ, is the hands-on Creator through whom all things were made, including every living creature (John 1:1-4). Life is inherent in Him and the Father alone, and only They can impart it; even physical reproduction does not truly give life, since God remains responsible for it. …