Read Genesis 11:1-9 .
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Creation and Fall
Key Thought: God created humanity to live in harmony and unity, but disobedience interrupted that ideal. God called Abraham to establish a people to whom He can restore that unity in Christ. October 6, 2018 1. Have a volunteer read Genesis 3:16-19. Image © Pacific Press from GoodSalt.com Ask class members to share a thought on what is the most important point in this text.
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Monday: The Consequences of the Fall
The consequences of the Fall were enormous. The disobedience of Adam and Eve started the rupture of a harmonious interdependence between all life forms. Even worse, it started the disunity, discord, and divisions among human beings that exist even today. Image © Classic Bible Art Coll. Goodsalt.com The disharmony is seen immediately in how Adam and Eve sought to put the blame for the Fall on others ( Gen.
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Sunday: Love as a Foundation of Unity
A clear message flowing out of the Creation story in Genesis Chapters 1 and 2 is the overall harmony that existed at the end of the week of Creation. God’s final words that all was “very good” ( Gen. 1:31 ) refer not only to aesthetic beauty but also to the absence of any element of evil or discord when God finished making this world and the humans who were to populate it.
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Oneness in Christ
Our Unity in Christ The church is God’s family on earth: serving, studying, and worshiping together. Looking to Jesus as its leader and Redeemer, the church is called to take the good news of salvation to all people. Number 14 of the Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church states, in part: “The church is the community of believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. In continuity with the people of God in Old Testament times, we are called out from the world; and we join together for worship, for fellowship, for instruction in the Word, for the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, for service to all mankind, and for the worldwide proclamation of the Gospel.” – Seventh-day Adventists Believe (Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press© Publishing Association, 2005) p. 163.
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