What Did God Create on the First Day and the Second Day?
April 28, 2024 Speaker: Mahlon Smith Series: What Makes for Sound Doctrine
Topic: Creation Passage: Genesis 1:1–5
1. God created all things and light on the first day. Genesis 1:1-5
Question 19. What does the Bible say God made on the first day?
Answer: On the first day, God made the light, and called it ‘day’ and the
darkness He called ‘night’
A. God ‘s creation of time and space is uncontested in Genesis.
B. God’s creation of time and space is unique to Genesis.
C. God’s creation of time and space was an unparalleled day in
Genesis.
2. Problems that arise when we deny the literal days of Genesis 1.
A. Biblical unity divides.
B. Biblical authority is diminished.
C. Biblical preaching and missions die.
D. Biblical conviction declines.
3. God created water on the second day.
Question 20. What does the Bible say God made on the second day?
Answer: On the second day, God formed the clouds and skies
A. God created from nothing, rather than destruction.
B. God created order, not disorder.
4. Why it matters how we interpret Genesis.
A. The text of Genesis demands literal days.
B. Moses taught literal days.
C. Jesus taught literal days.
D. The Apostle Paul literal days.
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