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Dr. Paul finishes up his commentary on the last four verse of Genesis 1, which addresses the subject of God charging mankind to ”get busy” and fill the earth with human beings and the subjugation of the created order by them. Then, Dr. Paul turns to the subject of God resting on the seventh day. Was God tired from exerting himself too much after creating the heavens and the earth or was God establishing a model to be followed by humans in their work-worship pattern of life?

On the sixth day of creation God finished inhabiting the earth with all the animals, birds, and creatures. But, it was also on that day that he created human beings: the crown jewel of his creation. Not only did the creation of humans give a glimpse into the Trinitarian nature of God by stating, ”Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,” it has left theologians and philosophers with a subject that has been discussed voluminously for centuries. What exactly does the image of God entail? It in this podcast that Dr. Paul touches upon the final aspect of God’s creation, namely the image of God, that will have a later effect upon all other doctrines that God will reveal later, and will differentiate the God of the Bible from all other false gods and goddesses created by man.

Secular scientists and philosophers frequently opine about the existence of all that is, but rarely traverse their way back to the origin of existence. It is not that they do not speculate about the age of the universe or perhaps even the age of the earth. It is that it is impossible for the to speak authoritatively, since none of them were around when the universe began, nor were they any human beings around at all! Therefore, they prefer to jump into the middle of the evolutionary model they have created and explain how they believe human beings originated, and then leave the "mythology" of creation origins to others to wrestle with.
The Bible, though, makes it quite clear who created the universe, the earth, and all that inhabits both. It gives a timeline of the order of events, which culminates in the creation of the greatest creature of them all, humanity. In this particular episode, Dr. Paul takes a look at the first five days of creation and what came to be out of nothing on those days. More importantly, Dr. Paul credits God with speaking everything into existence, as he prepared the heavens and the earth for the arrival of mankind; God's crown jewel of creation. It is something that certain secularists are willing to keep an open mind, while others repel amid their hostility and vanity, as they suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

One of the best ways to understand God’s creation and man’s place in it is to go back to the beginning when God created all things and then follow the progress of how things went from ”very good” to ”every intention of the thoughts of [man’s] heart was only evil continually.” Dr. Paul’s new study in the Book of Genesis does just that. He not only credits God for all that is created, but will explain how God managed to recreate fallen mankind later through the sacrifice of His Son—the Second Adam. Until then, the opening episode addresses not only the exclusivity of God in the creation story, but Trinitarian aspect of creation, which argues that God the Father, Jesus, Christ, and the Holy Spirit were present before the foundations of the earth and universe were spoken into existence out of nothing.

In Romans 16:17-27, the Apostle Paul closes his letter to the Roman Christians with instructions that are clearly at odds with today’s ideas about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Paul warns the church in Rome about certain characters who would be divisive and scandalous. Those individuals were not only NOT Christians, even though many of them most likely wanted to be thought of as such, they were deceivers who would use Christian talk and flattery to trick the Romans into believing their deceptive, false ”gospel.” Naivete was something that the Roman Christians did not need to be, but instead, they needed to be wise. By way of application, Paul’s instruction needs to be trumped from the roof tops today, in an age where false prophets and teachers abound, and have taken many well-meaning individuals hostage through cunning and deceit.





Lastly, the Apostle Paul offers a short doxology, glorifying God through the Lord Jesus, and especially for the gospel message that was a ”mystery,” but is now fully revealed in the person of Jesus. Thank God for his grace! Thank God for his revelation! Thank God for his Son, who willing paid the sin debt of humanity in-full, so that sinners ”may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in” Jesus. Amen!

As Paul begins to close his letter to the Romans, he takes timeout to greet his many friends and fellow co-workers in the Lord. Paul lists 26 individuals by name, along with several others not named specifically. It is further evidence that even though Paul had not founded the church in Rome, his personal influence was acknowledged over the course of the years, as well as the thousands of miles he traveled sharing the ”good news” of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. They were his pals, in the vernacular, and those whom Dr. Paul points out are the Christian’s only real friends in the world, namely fellow Christians.