Foundation Verses
Jesus loves us
John 19:9 – “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.”
John 15:12 – “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”
Jesus is the Son of God
John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Matthew 26:64 – “Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied. "But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven."
1 John 5:5 – “Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God”
God created everything, It was good
Gen 1:1 – “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Gen 1:31 – “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day”
1 Timothy 4:4 – “For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving”
World is dodgy
Gen 6:5-6 – “The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.”
Gen 6:11 – “Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.”
Romans 8:18-23 – “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be liberated from its...
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