God And Creation

This is especially true in January, since many begin the year with the determination to read the Bible through that year, but often that is as far as they get.

However, if they only read this one verse, it will tell them a great deal about the God of the Bible. This one scripture is considered to be the FOUNDATION which the Word of God is built upon.

Since this is the case, is it any wonder that Genesis 1:1 is specifically targeted by those who try to discredit God's Word?

For example, there are different ideas about how Creation came about. Even children have their version.

Illus: Mrs. Harvey Kidd said, “My young grandson, Richard, and I recently vacationed in the Rocky Mountains. One day, we had stopped to admire their grandeur, and after a few minutes of thoughtful silence, Richard broke out, ‘Just think--God did all this with only one hand!’ I puzzled over this for a moment, then asked him what he meant. ‘Oh, you know, Grandmother,’ he replied, ‘the Bible says Jesus was sitting on the right hand of God.’" (Mrs. Harvey Kidd, Hernando, MS. Today's Christian Woman, "Heart to Heart.)

That is not exactly what the Bible teaches when it comes to the Lord sitting on the right hand of God.

Genesis 1:1 tells us at least THREE things that we need to consider about creation. First, let’s look at-

I. GOD'S PRESENTATION

In verse 1, we read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

Through the centuries, men have argued about HOW THE EARTH, UNIVERSE, AND THE INHABITANTS OF EARTH CAME INTO EXISTENCE.

Illus: The noted agnostic, Col. Robert Ingersol, during a visit with Henry Ward Beecher, noted a beautiful globe portraying the constellations and stars of the heavens. "This is just what I'm looking for," he said after examining it. "Who made it?" "Who made it?" repeated Beecher in simulated astonishment. "Why Colonel, nobody made it, it just happened."

As Bible-believers, we believe that mankind is here because God created man and placed him here.

We call this CREATIONISM!

Illus: Even the single-celled organism is complex beyond the ability of scientists to understand, let alone duplicate. All of life is governed by the marvelously complex genetic code, which contains not only design and order, but what is equivalent to written information. This DNA code must not only be written correctly, the rest of the cell must be able to read it and follow its instructions, if the cell is to metabolize its food, carry out the myriad of enzyme reactions, and, especially, to reproduce. This code had to be present at the origin of life. How could it have written itself? And how could all the various organelles learn how to read and obey it?

Illus: Carl Sagan, the modern-day evolutionary spokesperson, had admitted: "The information content of a simple cell has been established as around 10 to the 12th power bits, comparable to about a hundred million pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica." (impact January, 1992 Dr. John D. Morris (Inst for Cr Res)

God created every one of us. Sometimes we look at people and we think God did a better job on some than He did on others.

Illus: A little girl crawled up into her great grandmother's lap one day. And looking up into her great grandmother's face she saw all those crevices, lines, and wrinkles. Then she felt her own smooth baby-like skin. She said to her great grandmother, "Did God make you?" Her great grandmother said, "Yes honey, God made me." Then the little girl said, "Well great grandmother, did God make me?" Her great grandmother said, "Oh yes, God made you too." And then the little girl said, "Well great grandmother, don't you think God's doing a lot better job these days?" - Mike Minix

The Bible declares this astounding truth - GOD CREATED IT ALL! The reason this is considered to be THE FOUNDATION OF THE BIBLE is because immediately it tells us two things about God.

• It declares that there is a God

• It declares that God is the One Who created the EARTH, UNIVERSE, AND MANKIND

Notice, the God of the Bible refutes something that some of the leading scholars in America teach - He refutes EVOLUTION! Without argument, God, in four little words, refutes everything ungodly men teach concerning evolution.

God simply states, "IN THE BEGINNING GOD..."

We hear about the scientists today who do not believe in Creationism, but we seldom hear about those who do.

Illus: Several years ago a scientist wrote an article entitled, "Seven Reasons Why I Believe in God."

(1) He said, "Consider the rotation of the earth. Our globe spins on its axis at the rate of one thousand miles an hour. If it were just a hundred miles an hour, our days and nights would be ten times as long. The vegetation would freeze in the long night or it would burn in the long day; and there could be no life."