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This post will contain some random thoughts and several questions.  Some of the questions will be answered while others will be left for the reader to comtemplate for oneself.  I have had to wrestle with all of these for myself because the world still tries to tell us that the Bible cannot be true.  So here we go.

To Interpret Genesis we have to determine what is our understanding of God.  How do we therefore deal with the concepts of His:                                                                                                                                         

1. Eternal nature.                                                                                                                                                                                                              

2. Absolute sovereignty (Total power and authority)                                                                                                                                                     

3. Unconditional love.                                                                                                                                                                                                     

4. Being transcendent (separate but active in the affairs of man).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

 What support do we have for the existence of a creator God?                                                                                                                        

1. The world its complexity cries out for a creator.                                                                                                                                             

 2. His word which has been validated time and again even as man has attempts to destroy it and the truths it contains. (John 17:17)

if we are able to answer the above we can come to the conclusion as we begin to look at Genesis 1 that there are certain things I believe hold true.  We do not have to know how God created all that exists in the Universe.  We only have the responsibility of accepting that He did it on faith.  Secondly we have the responsibility of being good stewards of His creation and to try to understand what He has given to us.  The true scientists therefore will have as his primary objective not to fall prey to the temptation to prove that there is no God but to learn how to use what God has put in place in the world.  One of the questions I have is, Can we really trust a man who according to anti-theists is no more than an evolved animal raised up from the accidental coming together of amino acids in some soup with the answers of how life came into existenced and is to be lived?  A theologian is not to tear God’s word apart, but to bring about spiritual healing of all within his given circle of influence based on the complete truth of the Scriptures.

There is so much that could be said, but I will leave the discussion of Genesis chapter 1 until next time.

One of my passions over 38 years is to not only  to  study God’s word but to write about those passages that have given meaning in my life.  In addition there has been the opportunity  to teach as well.  During the last nine years there has been an individual in the Bible Study class who summarized the lessons that have been taught.  My plan is to share a consolidation of all of these thoughts with you from the different books of the Bible.  Today I will begin with the book of Genesis.

Man has had six thousand yearst to refute the Bible.  Even those who do not hold to the truth of Christianity give credence to the Old Testament.  Both Judiasm and Islam find their roots in Abraham.  Sadly, the Muslims do not worship the God of the Bible but a moon god called Allah.  The Jews ultimately do not look back to Abraham but the origin of man in the image of the one and only creator God. 

As much as the anti-theist attempt to deny and denigrate God they have never been able to disprove that He is the eternal God.  Everything in the universe points to His creative work.

How a man accepts the account of creation found in Genesis 1 and 2 depends on his or her view of God. The Bible tells us, “In the beginning God.”  This indicates the eternality of Him who has no beginning or end.  He is always the “I AM” the Yahweh of history.  If one believe these descriptions to be true then he can begin to understand the marvelous wonder and complexity of all God created.  My question is how do each of us deal with the whole idea of eternal nature of God?  What is the importance that He was even before creation began?

How can it be stated unequivocally that God created the universe based on the lack of detail we find in Scripture?  the fact is that evidence is all around us of the fingerprint of God on His work.  Genesis only gives us a summary of all the intricate details that science has discovered as God has allowed them to be revealed.  God said of each event of creation that the result was good.  Our finite mind cannot even begin to comprehend what that term means from His perspective.