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Archetypal Settings
Common archetypal setting details include:
• A universe of opposites.
• A landscape that emerges from watery chaos.
• A circle that represents completion
• A great tree that connects the realms of heaven
and earth.

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Genesis: Beginnings
• Definition of Creation: to make something
out of nothing
• Author: Moses (he also wrote Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—
known as the Pentateuch)
• Beginning of the world set by Biblical
scholars is around 6,000 years old
• Length of creation: 7 days
--The Hebrew word used for each day is
Yom which refers to a 24 hour day,not
any other length of time
 The Trinity:
FATHER

GOD

HOLY SPIRIT SON

NOT
THE GAP THEORY
 THE GAP THEORY
A. The Gap Theory: This states that there is a gap in
time between verse 1 and verse 2: “In the
beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth.
And the earth was without form and void and
darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
• 1. During this gap in time, the theory is that the
fall of Lucifer happened.
• 2. Because of the battle fought, the earth was
destroyed and God had to start all over again.
Some say that Satan ruled another race of man on
earth before the fall, but there are no records of
them at all, even in the fossil record.
• 3. This is also another way that people try to
explain the age of the earth, for the gap could
have taken a very long time and that is when the
earth aged.

• “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the

morning!…For thou has said in thine heart, I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit
also upon the mount of congregation, in the sides of the north: I
will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the
most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of
the pit.” Isaiah 14: 12-15
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 DAY ONE:
•Darkness already existed, so it didn’t
need to be created.
•God spoke light into existence.
•He then divided the light from the
darkness.
•He called the light Day and the
darkness Night, creating the first
evening and morning.
•Where did the light come from?
Some people believe that the sun
and moon were already created and
a mist or vapor covered them until
they were revealed later in the
creation.
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 DAY TWO:
•God created the firmament, or sky,
and separated the water below from
the water above.
•God named the firmament Heaven.
•THE CANOPY THEORY:
•This states that on Day 2, God created a
canopy in the sky to hold back the waters
that he placed in the heavens.
•1. This canopy was the reason there
was no rain before the flood. There was
only a heavy dew. (see chapter 2)
•2. When the flood happened in 1656, the
canopy broke open and met with the water
released from the deep, explaining the
fossil record which records fish being
fossilized in the middle of swimming. The
impact imbedded many of them into rocks
for us to find later.
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 DAY THREE:
•God commanded that the
dry land appear from the
waters.
•God named the dry land
Earth and the rest of the
waters Seas.
•God created the grass
and all the plants,
including trees. Anything
that produced seeds to
reproduce was created on
this day.
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 DAY FOUR :
•God created lights in the
sky to help control the
seasons and the morning
and evening cycle.
•God created the greater
light to rule the day—the
Sun.
•He then created the
lesser lights to rule the
night—the moon and
stars.
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 DAY FIVE :
•God created all the water
creatures, birds, and
whales (the only mammals
created on this day)
•These creatures receive
the first command from
God: “Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the
waters and the seas, and
let fowl multiply in the
earth.”
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 DAY SIX :
•God created all land animals: cattle,
creeping things, and beasts of the
earth
•God then created man and woman
in His own image, in three parts:
mind, soul, and spirit
•They receive the second
commandment from God, with an
addition from the first one: “Be
fruitful and multiply and replenish
the earth and subdue it, and have
dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the fowl of the air, and of
every moving thing on the earth.”
•Both humans and animals are given
the advice to eat all the plants: all
vegetarians
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 DAY SEVEN :

•God rested from all

the work that He had
created.
•He blessed the
seventh day and made
it holy---set it aside for
a particular purpose.
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