Dennis R Wiles

FBC Arlington

January 22, 2023

2023 Why Does It Matter?

WINTER 2023 Anything: Why Does Anything Matter?

January 1 – February 21, 2023

Humanity: God’s Glory

Genesis 2:4-18, 21-25

God is!

God created everything!

God created humanity!

Man is now the pivot of the story, as in chapter 1 he was the climax. Everything is told in terms of him: even the primeval waste is shown awaiting him (2:5b), and the narrative works outwards from man himself to man’s environment (garden, trees, river, beasts and birds) in logical as against chronological order, to reveal the world as we are meant to see it: a place expressly prepared for our delight and discipline. It is misleading to call this a second creation account, for it hastens to localize the scene, passing straight from the world at large to ‘a garden . . . in the east’; all that follows is played out on this narrow stage.

-Derek Kidner, Genesis

Human beings are living beings.

Human beings are spiritual beings.

Human beings live in a cultural context.

Human beings are male and female.

Human beings are social beings.

God has created human beings in His Image and crowned us with His Glory!