Relevant Verses: Gen. 1-3; 4:1-9

Leading

Question: If you

were to look at our created world without any reference to Scripture,

where would you place it on a spectrum extending from good to evil?

Our

lessons this quarter focus on God’s care for those in need, and by

extension, our care for our needy fellow humans. Interestingly

enough, our study guide begins with a perfect world where everything

was declared by God to be good. Indeed, at the end of the sixth day

of Creation, God surveyed everything he had made and declared it to

be “very good” (1:31).

Question:

In Genesis 1, what features of the good created world have within

them ...