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Orchard Church | Pastor Jim Jackson

Oct 29, 2017

In the creation of Adam and Eve, God ingeniously designed a human male and female for completion, companionship, and procreation (Gen. 1:24-27; 2:7, 18-25; ish/ishah; man/woman; male female). There is no scientific or evolutionary reason for why there are two human sexes rather than one or twenty, other than it is by the...


Oct 22, 2017

As no one but God was at the beginning of creation, Genesis records the historical-observational testimony of God. Humans were created after, but lived concurrent with, everything God made—including ‘dinosaurs’. Adam was given authority to name all the representative kinds of land animals and birds showing his...


Oct 15, 2017

On day three God created land with vegetation, grass, trees and seaweed/algae. This began photosynthesis and food for the creatures He was about to make. God instantly filled the vast ocean with all forms of aquatic life on the fifth day. Among the ‘swarms’ of things, He built ‘great sea creatures’—possibly...


Oct 8, 2017

On the first day of creation, the earth was made before light or any other part of the universe, showing it was God’s focus and purpose from the beginning. The earth wasn’t made by compressed gas and dust particles 4.5 billion years ago, but a relatively recent creation out of water (2 Pet. 3:5). Radiometric dating...


Oct 1, 2017

At the beginning of the first day of creation, there was no explosion or chaos but a carefully planned and executed sequence of events. God made time, a watery earth, and light—that momentarily filled the universe. God then gathered the light to shine from an unspecified place, possibly Himself. The universe’s shape...