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.