1. 1 Creation and the story-line of the Bible Dr Steve Lloyd Hope Church, Gravesend and Biblical Creation Ministries www.biblicalcreationministries.org.uk

2. 2 stories? Evolution story: life made itself Bible story: creation – fall – redemption – restoration 2

3. Debating Darwin 3 core doctrines: Adam, the physical ancestor of all humanity Flood as a global catastrophe No-agony-before- Adam 3

4. 4 2 stories? Evolution story: life made itself death always present Bible story: creation – fall – redemption – restoration death from sin

5. human physical death -Romans 5v12: “...sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned” -1 Corinthians 15v21: “For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.” 5

6. physical death and salvation Colossians 1v22: “But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death...” 1 Peter 2v24: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree...by his wounds you have been healed.” 6

7. animal suffering and death Genesis 6v7: (NRSV) “I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created - people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air,for I am sorry that I have made them” 7

8. animal suffering and death Genesis 6v12-13: (NRSV) “And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth...the earth is filled with violence because of them” 8

9. all flesh = ? e.g. Genesis 7v21: (NRSV) “And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings” 9

10. Bible’s story-line: 10 creation new creation creation

11. Bible’s story-line: 11 creation new creation creation

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13. New creation Revelation 21v4: “There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” 13

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15. 15 The New Creationism Paul Garner Overview of a creation model £9

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17. 17 The flood in the story-line of the Bible new creationcreation judgement flood second coming