This is IOPNA’s 4th article in our
conversational series on CREATION in Genesis 1
We found that God doesn’t say anything about millions of years – that was
the idea of religious scholars to try and fit in with Man’s ideas. What does
God go on to tell us?
He tells us that the earth or matter was ‘without
form’ from tohu (Hebrew): ‘lying waste’; and ‘void’ from bohu:
‘empty’. So I guess we could say it was desolate and apparently even shapeless.
Everything was dark but the Spirit of God was hovering over the face
of…….waters. ‘Spirit’ comes from ruach: breath, so you could say the
breath of God was hovering over the waters.
Even ‘hovering’ is an interesting choice of words, coming from rachaph:
‘brooding’, like a hen fluttering her wings as she carefully energises those
eggs with her body heat.
Wow!...this is fascinating. I was wondering when
water would come into it seeing Earth is called the watery planet and I‘ve
never heard a credible explanation as to where water came from. It’s like God
is starting with a blank canvas and now energising His creation. Go on.
Before we do, I need to explain that religious
scholars have got more to say: they try and explain why there are so many
fossils imbedded in rock by claiming that evil forces ruined God’s first
attempts at creation. In other words, they say death preceded Man instead of what
God says: Man’s sin caused death.
That’s weird! These religious people promote the
idea that Earth is millions of years old and then I guess they have to try and
explain the existence of fossils by meddling more and reading into the Bible
what it doesn’t say, and which defies commonsense anyway!
That’s right, they compare this second verse with
tohu being used in Isaiah 45:18 which says: “For thus says the Lord, who
created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has
established it, who did not create it in vain (tohu), who formed it to
be inhabited…” They claim this is a reconstruction job on a ruined creation - which has huge implications for the Bible’s message of redemption. If we listened to them we’d be throwing our Bibles out in the trash because it wouldn’t make sense.
But doesn’t the Bible warn against people adding
bits and pieces or leaving things out of the Bible?
You can bet it does!
Deuteronomy 4:2 Proverbs 30:6 Revelation 22:18
Deuteronomy 4:2 Proverbs 30:6 Revelation 22:18
Moving on to finally answer your opening
question, we get:
“God said, “Let
there be….” God just spoke things into existence.
Wow! This leaves me speechless – religious Man’s
arrogance and stupidity in the face of God’s power. He speaks the universe into
existence while Man speaks nonsense.
In case there’s any doubt, the apostle Paul
reminds us in Hebrews 11:3 – “By faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of
things which are visible.” (Also Psalm
33)
I guess we need faith to accept that God could do
what seems impossible to us – make something from nothing, in that supernatural
beginning.
Yes, it does take faith, but it’s not blind –
it’s based on evidence. Notice how it’s real Science that supports this account
of a supernatural beginning …
…while religion destroys its credibility. Almost unbelievable!
NEXT: God’s
autograph
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