Creation

Watched a video about creation tonight with high school students. I have heard a lot on this topic in my lifetime. I remember hearing about it when I was in high school, when I was in college, and as an adult. I don't jump into debates about it for debate sake, just like I don't jump into debates really about anything for debate sake. However, I do feel strongly about it and so here are some of my thoughts on creation...

1. God created everything in one six literal days and we understand days and rested on one literal day. In Genesis, it clearly states there was morning and there was evening one day. This was not a "figurative" day meaning millions of years. One morning, one evening, one day. Pretty clear. God says it very plainly for us to understand. If you don't want to believe that, then you open the entire Bible for man's interpretation and take away from the authority of scripture.

2. Evolutionists have the same evidence as those who believe in creation. They simply come up with different theories on how the evidence came to be. They try to argue that their methods are "truth," but they're just theories. Because unless you have a person who lived millions of years ago to verify their theory, it's not proven, it's an unprovable theory. However, with the Bible, we have someone who did exist when everything came into being and has told us about it. So, do we want to believe fallible, flawed human beings living today trying to tell us how the universe came to be, or do we want to believe the perfect creator who said He made everything and how He did it?

3. A lot of belief of evolution comes from people who do not want to believe God or a being higher than themselves who has more power and control. They want to believe that they have power over their own destiny and they don't like the idea of going to hell if they don't accept Jesus, but instead of surrender to Jesus, they try to come up with theories to believe instead of Him. Thus any belief of creation proclaiming Jesus is a threat to their false security. I had an anthropology professor once say to the class on the first day that not all questions are equal and he did not want to hear any questions challenging his position on evolution.

Isn't it interesting how threatened evolutionists feel by creationism? I do not feel threatened by evolution at all. Rather, I know what I believe regarding it and will defend my beliefs if ever challenged. (apologetics)

Bottom line...

1. What is more comforting to believe in? That we are cosmic accidents without a soul and when we did, there is nothing or that a all-powerful God created us out of love and died to save us because He loves us and wants to spend eternity with us where we will never die and there will be no more crime, pain, suffering, sickness, death, etc...?

2. Consider the miracles we see in the Bible after creation. Why is it so hard to believe God could create everything in six literal days? I am in awe of His power and might and majesty. He could create all this in six days, it humbles me into understanding how small I am in comparison to Him and His greatness. It reminds me of how worthy He is to be praised and adored. And shouldn't that be the point? All that God has done, all that He created, His infinite imagination and ability to breathe life from nothing, how dishonoring for us to try and say He is not that powerful and mighty. Why do we want to make God little? I for one want to believe in a God big enough to create a universe in six days, a God who is not the devil's equal so He can squash the devil like a bug at any time He wants, a God who has the power to end all my troubles, wipe all my tears, give me a new immortal body immune to the disease of sin, and love me with a neverending perfect love.

My God is bigger than man's attempt to diminish His power and abilities.