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Chapter 7: God Continues to Create

Connect…

Evolutionists say man is the highest or most developed of all the animals. They view man as a complex
organism of the animal kingdom. He is simply an animal. But in the book of Genesis, God made man
uniquely different from the plant and animal kingdom – He breathed into him His own breath. He also
began walking and communicating with men daily. Today, we will see that he gave Adam a special job
to bring all the creation under his stewardship for the glory of God. Because of man’s loneliness, God
created a special partner for him called the woman. He brought them together in marriage. He placed
them in a perfect environment to enjoy His fellowship. Let’s explore what this was like…

Objectives…

1. The student should be able to explain the Dominion Mandate.

2. The student should be able to explain why God created the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”
and how it demonstrated God’s goodness.

3. The student should be able to state a man's and a woman’s original characteristics in their marriage.

The Lesson ...

God Continues His Creation

Genesis 1:28-31 – Day 6, the blessing on Man

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it,
and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing
that moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on
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the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every
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beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth,
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everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God
saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was
morning, the sixth day. (ESV)

The word replenish in Hebrew is male, and it simply means “to fill, fulfill, or be filled.” Of the more than
300 times it appears in the Old Testament, it is translated as “replenish” only seven times in the KJV, and
even these could have been rendered “fill.” xxxi

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