The God of Creation
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:33 am
For a long time, many millennia, creation has been argued and now in the modern era, science has been proposed as the source of answers to the many mysteries of creation. But that is a mistake as science is too limited in its scope to capture all that was done by God in the past.
It has been said that God took millions of years to create what we know about and it has been said that it would be deceptive for God to create with the appearance of age.
Both ideas are false and should be discarded. Why? Because God does things in a manner that leaves no doubt who accomplished the task. Throughout the Old Testament, we have story after story where God tells his people to do certain things and when they respond, he reduces their numbers or has them proceed in a manner that is unusal or unnormal activity.
In the story of the fall of Jericho, God has the people of Israel march around the city for a certain amount of days, then blow trumpets, this is not a normal military maneuver when one is expected to conquer a fortified city. Then years later, God calls Gideon to raise up an army to defend His people, 10,000 responded yet God pared this number down to 300
In both cases, the Israelites were victorious. Why? Because a). God does not share the glory and his people needed to see Him at work, b). God wanted to show both the Israelites and the pagan societies that He alone is God and that there is no other god.
The same goes for creation. Yes God had many methods available to Him, He is capable of creating in many varieties of ways, yet he chose one. Why is it not the day/age concept? Because this method weakens God's testimony. How? If God chose this method, non-believing observers would question God's power and ability and it allow them to ridicule Him because He did not demonstrate His power to the fullest. Which then allows these unbelievers to dismiss God as powerless and not worthy of their love and respect.
This method would undermine His purpose to demonstrate to all that He alone is God and He alone could do this event. Anyone, could take millions of years to do something, it is nothing special. Nature alone could do it. Also, it undermines His message to all those He created, His words mean nothing and makes Him a hypocrite as God is very specific about what he does and how he does it.
Is creating with age deceptive? Not at all, God does not lie thus creating with age is perfectly normal and necessary for what God had in mind. God created in a certain way for a certain purpose, it leaves NO DOUBT that God did it. Only God could have done it in this fashion and this action acts as a testimony to the great power of God and leaves no one with an excuse to not believe nor opens any doors for people to mock Him. “ The God of Genesis 1 is indeed the universal God”
He stands alone as the only being capable of performing such an act--
Jer 32: 17'Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth
by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm!
Nothing is too difficult for You
Then we have the following verse which speaks of the testimony the heavens bring:
Psalm 19:1The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
Science looks at the universe and says, it can't be done that way it must be done this way but science is wrong as it is impeded by human understanding while God is saying—wait, lean not unto thine own understanding (prov. 3:5) look at Me. I did it this way and all of science's rules and laws are subject to me I am the Master of all.
Science is based on secular thinking, corruption, unregenerated thought, fallible and limited and God says 'what fellowship does righteousness have with unrighteousness?' (paraphrase)
The statement is quite clear, the believer must rid themselves of all that is not of God and adopt that which is of God, meaning the believer does not blend man's ideas with that which is holy but proclaims what God reveals to them. To do anything less diminishes what God accomplished, undermines His purpose for doing it in a certain way and allows the unbeliever to shun & mock God because God is made out to be a fool.
God created in a certain manner to show that He, the God of Israel, the God of the New Testament Christian is Lord of all and His Power is more powerful than anything man can conceive, He is to be feared and we are to be humble before him.
In the Old Testament, after these displays of power, the unbelievers, came to the Israelites, seeking peace as they had heard who their God was and what He could do. Today's non-Christian does not fear God in this manner, because believers have so compromised themselves and so adopted secular thinking that there is no power to observe nor to fear.
Science is limited, science cannot see into the past, the past is gone, nor can it determine what God did if it walks with unrighteousness in its quest to see and understand Him.
Did God create in 6 normal 24 hour days---of course or He wouldn't be God of the Bible. He would be a liar and a hypocrite, which destroys everything else that is said in those pages.
Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high
And see who has created these stars,
The One who leads forth their host by number,
He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,
Not one of them is missing.
Col. 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him.
The Bible is very clear, even science is included in this creative act and it has no authority to change what God has said.
It has been said that God took millions of years to create what we know about and it has been said that it would be deceptive for God to create with the appearance of age.
Both ideas are false and should be discarded. Why? Because God does things in a manner that leaves no doubt who accomplished the task. Throughout the Old Testament, we have story after story where God tells his people to do certain things and when they respond, he reduces their numbers or has them proceed in a manner that is unusal or unnormal activity.
In the story of the fall of Jericho, God has the people of Israel march around the city for a certain amount of days, then blow trumpets, this is not a normal military maneuver when one is expected to conquer a fortified city. Then years later, God calls Gideon to raise up an army to defend His people, 10,000 responded yet God pared this number down to 300
In both cases, the Israelites were victorious. Why? Because a). God does not share the glory and his people needed to see Him at work, b). God wanted to show both the Israelites and the pagan societies that He alone is God and that there is no other god.
The same goes for creation. Yes God had many methods available to Him, He is capable of creating in many varieties of ways, yet he chose one. Why is it not the day/age concept? Because this method weakens God's testimony. How? If God chose this method, non-believing observers would question God's power and ability and it allow them to ridicule Him because He did not demonstrate His power to the fullest. Which then allows these unbelievers to dismiss God as powerless and not worthy of their love and respect.
This method would undermine His purpose to demonstrate to all that He alone is God and He alone could do this event. Anyone, could take millions of years to do something, it is nothing special. Nature alone could do it. Also, it undermines His message to all those He created, His words mean nothing and makes Him a hypocrite as God is very specific about what he does and how he does it.
Is creating with age deceptive? Not at all, God does not lie thus creating with age is perfectly normal and necessary for what God had in mind. God created in a certain way for a certain purpose, it leaves NO DOUBT that God did it. Only God could have done it in this fashion and this action acts as a testimony to the great power of God and leaves no one with an excuse to not believe nor opens any doors for people to mock Him. “ The God of Genesis 1 is indeed the universal God”
He stands alone as the only being capable of performing such an act--
Jer 32: 17'Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth
by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm!
Nothing is too difficult for You
Then we have the following verse which speaks of the testimony the heavens bring:
Psalm 19:1The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
Science looks at the universe and says, it can't be done that way it must be done this way but science is wrong as it is impeded by human understanding while God is saying—wait, lean not unto thine own understanding (prov. 3:5) look at Me. I did it this way and all of science's rules and laws are subject to me I am the Master of all.
Science is based on secular thinking, corruption, unregenerated thought, fallible and limited and God says 'what fellowship does righteousness have with unrighteousness?' (paraphrase)
The statement is quite clear, the believer must rid themselves of all that is not of God and adopt that which is of God, meaning the believer does not blend man's ideas with that which is holy but proclaims what God reveals to them. To do anything less diminishes what God accomplished, undermines His purpose for doing it in a certain way and allows the unbeliever to shun & mock God because God is made out to be a fool.
God created in a certain manner to show that He, the God of Israel, the God of the New Testament Christian is Lord of all and His Power is more powerful than anything man can conceive, He is to be feared and we are to be humble before him.
In the Old Testament, after these displays of power, the unbelievers, came to the Israelites, seeking peace as they had heard who their God was and what He could do. Today's non-Christian does not fear God in this manner, because believers have so compromised themselves and so adopted secular thinking that there is no power to observe nor to fear.
Science is limited, science cannot see into the past, the past is gone, nor can it determine what God did if it walks with unrighteousness in its quest to see and understand Him.
Did God create in 6 normal 24 hour days---of course or He wouldn't be God of the Bible. He would be a liar and a hypocrite, which destroys everything else that is said in those pages.
Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high
And see who has created these stars,
The One who leads forth their host by number,
He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,
Not one of them is missing.
Col. 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him.
The Bible is very clear, even science is included in this creative act and it has no authority to change what God has said.