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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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chapter one of Genes<strong>is</strong> that God introduces himself to the world.The initial verse of Genes<strong>is</strong> reads, “In the beginning God created.”God <strong>is</strong> from the Hebrew Elohim, Supreme God. He <strong>is</strong> Elohim,Supreme God and Creator. As the Creator, all <strong>is</strong> h<strong>is</strong>. We mustacknowledge h<strong>is</strong> divinity and our dependency. It <strong>is</strong> h<strong>is</strong> self­portrait,as observed in the first verse of Genes<strong>is</strong>, which illuminates him to us.God’s description of himself foreshadows for us a right relationshipwith him. These first words, “In the beginning God created” 26establ<strong>is</strong>h the foundation upon which the ensuing Bible, indeed all ofcreation, rests.Genes<strong>is</strong> chapter one, verse two d<strong>is</strong>closes the very act ofcreation, “And the earth was without form, and void; and darknesswas upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved uponthe face of the waters.” 2726Gen. 1:127Gen. 1:217

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