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creator of heaven and earth. |
This is perhaps
the most contentious aspect in the 21st Century. To us the evidence
for creation is greater than that for “evolution” and all implied by it. |
The
concept of God as a Supreme Being implies that He could have created
the Universe; He is outside, not limited by, our concept of space-time, and has
the power and wisdom to do this. The question is, did He?
Modern
thought has led “everyone” to decry this … which is probably why birds, fish,
insects and so on are referred to as “animals” in the BBC’s wildlife programmes
(to call them creatures implies a creator!). This is based partly on perceived
scientific thought, and partly on the fact that acknowledging a Creator
requires responsibility (something that folk seem to avoid at all costs). But
the Bible states quite clearly that God created the Universe, and all life, and
cherishes it, and will one day intervene to prevent mankind from utterly
destroying it. Indeed, in the book of Romans, the Bible states clearly that observing
creation is evidence of the Creator God.
I
must include here a few of points that may help in what follows;-
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God
created in 6 days … the Hebrew for “day” has the same range of meaning as the
English word. “Ships were built of oak in Nelson’s day”
does not require us to identify a particular 24-hour period of time when the
shipwrights favoured oak timber! Read it
as “stages” or “phases”.
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The
Bible is not a scientific text book … it is generally concerned more with “who”
and “why” than with “how” and “when”.
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Creation
in the Bible is a “finished process” – it was completed, and
checked out and seen to be “very good”. But what happened subsequently is
overwhelmingly the result of human sin. So stating that some of what we see now
is “not good” and therefore a loving God could not have created it, is a false
argument.
Some
of the arguments for creation …
·
Beauty
and pattern … Katie remembers looking at leaf cells
through a microscope and being amazed at what she saw … “this couldn’t have
happened by chance”
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Mathematics
… some of the time spans required by an “evolution only” basis of thought,
imply that wherever we dug there would be bodies buried (there aren’t);
further, analysis of world population growth supports the Bible passage where
all present humanity descended from Noah and his family (go further back, and
the earth would be 6-foot deep in living bodies)
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But
the overwhelming arguments is that Jesus Himself believed it (after all, He was
there at the time!).
Why
is this important?
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If
God created the Universe (i.e. it didn’t “just happen”) then it was for a
reason, and one of our roles as human beings is to discover that reason and
thus our Creator.
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If
God created the Universe, then He has a right to say “what should and shouldn’t
be”.
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