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.