                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           {"id":1521,"date":"2020-10-16T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2020-10-13T17:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:37:01","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1523\" src=\"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/world.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/world.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/world-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/world-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/world-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Genesis 1:1-31,2:1-3) In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.&nbsp;The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">And God said, \u201cLet there be light,\u201d and there was light.&nbsp;And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.&nbsp;God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">And God said, \u201cLet there be an expanse&nbsp;in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.\u201d&nbsp;And God made&nbsp;the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.&nbsp;And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">And God said, \u201cLet the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.\u201d And it was so.&nbsp;God called the dry land Earth,&nbsp;and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">And God said, \u201cLet the earth sprout vegetation, plants&nbsp;yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.\u201d And it was so.&nbsp;The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.&nbsp;And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">And God said, \u201cLet there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons,&nbsp;and for days and years,&nbsp;and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.\u201d And it was so.&nbsp;And God made the two great lights\u2014the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night\u2014and the stars.&nbsp;And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,&nbsp;to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.&nbsp;And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">And God said, \u201cLet the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds&nbsp;fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.\u201d&nbsp;So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.&nbsp;And God blessed them, saying, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.\u201d&nbsp;And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">And God said, \u201cLet the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds\u2014livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.\u201d And it was so.&nbsp;And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">Then God said, \u201cLet us make man&nbsp;in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"line-group\"><span class=\"ln-group\">So God created man in his own image,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent\">in the image of God he created him;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent\">male and female he created them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">And God blessed them. And God said to them, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.\u201d&nbsp;And God said, \u201cBehold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.&nbsp;And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.\u201d And it was so.&nbsp;And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.&nbsp;And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.&nbsp;So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Genesis 1:1-31,2:1-3) In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.&nbsp;The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. 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