THIS WEEK'S MEMORY VERSE:
Try to memorise
Romans 8:22-23 in your favorite translation
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When the memory verse says the "creation groans," can
it literally groan? What does "creation groans" mean?
Sunday — Alienation from the earth
Do you think the changes to nature recorded in Genesis 3:14 were
instant or gradual? Explain your answer.
Give two or three possible conclusions you can draw from the fact that
in Hebrew the words "Adam" ('adam) and "earth" ('adamah) are virtually the
same word.
Monday — Living apart from God
What sorrowful fact do you see in the uses of the word "image" in
Genesis 1:26 and Genesis 5:3?
Tuesday — Nature marred
How do you explain the creation of the intricate complexity in the
stinger of a mosquito or the fangs of a snake?
(If you need help finding an answer, see the adventist.fm article
The mosquito problem.)
It was humans who sinned and deserved death, not the animals. How do you
explain that animals die, and that most die at a younger age than humans?
Wednesday — Other changes in nature
Read Genesis 1 three times concentrating on the details it gives about
the original earth. How does it make you feel about the yet-future new earth?
Thursday — Nature restored
How does Isaiah 11:6-9 make you feel about (a) the present earth and (b)
the future earth?
How do you feel about Ellen White's use of the word "betrayed" in her
statement quoted in Thursday's lesson? (It reads: The earth originally given
to man as his kingdom [was] betrayed by him. -- GC 674)