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Our creator became our Redeemer! This was necessary because all humans are sinners. We needed a perfect man to die for sin. The only solution was for the perfect, sinless Creator to become a man so He could be our Savior! The doctrine of Creation is vital to understanding the gospel.

Our Creator became the head of the church and as the first to be resurrected, He became the firstborn from the dead. God has given Him preeminence or first authority in all things!

The Future Hope. In 2 Peter 3 and Revelation 21 and 22 we’re told the third element of the gospel: there will be a new heaven and earth. There will be no more death. And the Curse (imposed because of sin in Genesis 3:14-19) will be no more.

In countries where there is no faith in Christ as God’s son, how can people ever understand the gospel without knowledge of Him as Creator, their sin, and the need for salvation?

Understanding the foundational aspects of the gospel in Genesis is a vital key to reaching the world for Christ.

Adapted from Why Won’t They Listen

by Ken Ham (NKJV)

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When Christians talk about the gospel, they are presenting the good news of Christ’s death and resurrection. As Paul states in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover brethren, I declare to you the gospel…by which also you are saved…that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures…”

The Bad News. Paul doesn’t end his explanation of the gospel here. Later he explains, “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive…And so it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being.’ The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.” (1 Corinthians 15:22, 45) Isn’t it awesome that while the first Adam brought sin and death into our lives, God gave Christ as the last Adam to take sin and death out of our lives? God loves us more than we will ever love Him.

The Good News. In explaining the gospel in Colossians, Paul points out clearly that our Savior is the Creator and has preeminence in all things since “…in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins…For by Him all things were created… and He is before all things and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.” (Colossians 1:14-18)