Schooled: God Makes

The Bible doesn't say a lot about creation. It devotes the opening two chapters of Genesis and a few other passages to the subject. Why is that? It is because the Bible is not a science textbook. The Bible is a theological textbook. The Bible is far more concerned with the God who creates, rather than the method of creation. Does the Bible say anything about creation? Yes. The Bible tells us all we need to know about creation. It tells us what every natural scientist has been forced to admit, that the universe has a beginning. Everything finds its beginning in God.

Read Genesis 1& 2

Ex Nihilo- meaning "out of nothing"

Theologians use this Latin phrase to describe the beginning of our universe. In Genesis 1, we read that God creates out of nothing. He didn't have to go to Hobby Lobby and purchase a starter kit. He just creates. He then take His creation and molds it into something beautiful. God takes dirt and makes people. Did you hear that? God makes people out of dirt. According to God's Word, man did not evolve out of lessor animals. We're not just here by random chance. God made you.

God is creative. Look around and you will quickly see that God is creative. He could have used black and white instead of color. He could have made air filtration machines instead of trees. God is the most creative being in existence. This explains why humans are creative. We are all created in God's image and despite our sinful natures, we retain some of the characteristics of God. Many of you paint, draw, create music, sing, dance, write, blog, and more. These creative expressions are simply reflections of a good God.

I understand that not everyone holds to the creation story as found in God's Word. I have included the next section just for you.

The Problems with Evolution- Despite over 100 years of trying to replicate macro-evolution, it is all in vain. Scientists cannot, and will not, replicate macro-evolution.

+Evolution states that "Nothing made Everything."

That statement is just plain silly. Logically, this cannot happen. If you follow the theory of evolution to its natural conclusion, you will be left wanting. It simply cannot explain the creation and beginning of our universe. It takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution.

+Chaos does not create order.

Evolutionist and Atheist often fall back on the "Big Bang" theory. There are many holes in this theory. We know that chaos, such as a big bang, does not create order. The world in which we live is extremely ordered. There seems to be a natural design in which the creative order follows. We must also as the question, "What happened before the Big Bang? Where did the components necessary for the Big Bang come from?" Evolution and atheism simply cannot explain the beginning of creation.

Fred Hoyle, the great astronomer and mathematician, said the likelihood of the creation of order out of chaos, that evolution was the answer to the question of origins, was the mathematical equivalent to a hurricane passing through a junk yard and after the storm dissipates you find a Boeing 747 flightworthy and ready for take off after being assembled by the storm. You know that's crazy.

+Fine-Tuning Argument

There are certain constants in our universe that are simply too complex to have happened by chance. Such as; the gravitational pull, the rate of universe expansion, the average distance between stars, the nature of gravity, earth's distance from the sun, earth's rotation period, and the levels of carbon dioxide. If any of these constants were to change by one in a million parts, it would result in the end of human life and the inability to have ever been created.

If you do not hold to the doctrine of creation, you will most likely believe the following:

• You came from no one

• You are living for nothing

• When you die, you'll go nowhere

God is......

What we learn from Genesis 1 & 2

• God is the only God

• God is eternally uncaused. He eternally existed before creation or time.

• God is living. Life doesn't spring forth from unliving matter.

• God is independent.

• God is immanent. He is actively at work in His creation.

• God is personal.

• God is beautiful. Just look at creation.