God And The 3rd Rock From The Sun Series

God is an artist and architect. It’s part of being a Creator.

Artist’s often begin with , and God was no different. Like a sculptor; He fashioned this planet with hills, ridges, and mountains; as His voice chiseled them with every shape and size.

He painted this world with broad strokes, with the 10 million + colors that we know exist; not to mention the colors that most believe the human eye cannot see.

Yet, according to Genesis 1:2 he began with something that looked like this:

The Bible gets very scientific in Genesis 1:2 by saying that when God began the creative process that this was the fact: “The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.”

In other words, like many other planets, in the beginning, planet earth was nothing more or less than a big dark rock that He placed in the firmament. It was like a crusty, rock canvas that God suspended in the cosmos that God decided to put His artistry to work on.

So, to understand creation, let’s start there. Let’s start with the rocks. Let’s start with Geology and see what we might learn about God and this rock we live upon.

Transitional Sentence: What do we learn about God from the rock we read about in Genesis 1:2?

I. People Have A Problem With The Rock

vs. 2- “The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep...”

Explanation:

The Bible tells us that when God began creating. As a matter of fact, you can study the timeline of the Bible and its genealogies leading all the way up to Jesus, and when you add the 2000 years since Jesus; it’s easy to see that God began creating about 6000 years ago.

Yet, if you go to any National Park you will look at geological structures or fossils and will be told that the earth is millions, if not billions of years old.

The biggest problem people have with our belief in creation spotlights on the age of the earth that is based upon the timelines of the Bible.

The reason why the age of the earth is such an issue to evolutionists is because without the earth “being old’ their evolutionary beliefs (Evolution takes a lot of time/Creation does not) fall apart.

To quickly explain, the problem I’ll quickly display where the problems stem. They stem from:

a) The earth’s layers

There was a man from England whose name was William Smith who lived in the late 1700’s that discovered that there were layers of rocks on the earth.

Everywhere he studied on this planet, he discovered that the layers of rocks were present in a uniform pattern.

In those uniform layers of rocks, he learned that there was the presence of fossils; which are nothing more or less than burial grounds for the life that lived in the past. There were animal fossil remains, as well as, plant life fossils that were buried in the layers of rock.

He, as an evolutionist, he believed that since things evolved to become more complex over time, that by digging deeper into the layers of rocks, that the deeper he went the some simple the remains would become.

In the older and deeper layers; he expected to find simpler forms of life, and the close you came to the earth’s surface, you would find more complex forms of life.

He arranged the layers of the earth that he discovered into about 6 layers of earth. He said that from those layers he could tell how old the earth is. From this, the biologist and geologists have determined how old they think the earth is.

From this, we are basically told to take our Bible’s and believe their interpretation of Geology over the teachings of Theology.

Today, if you ask: “How do you know the age of a certain layer of the earth?” Their response: Because of the fossils that are there.

Then you ask: “How do you know the age of the fossils?” Their response: Because of the layer of the earth that they are found in.

THEY CREATED A CIRCULAR ARGUMENT.

Do you see what happens? The age of the earth that is provided is completely based on presupposition. In other words, opinion.

When we read Genesis 1:2 we read the historical record of creation, based upon the eyewitness account of the one who created it. Please pardon my simplicity, but I often want to ask evolutionists one question: “How do you know; were you there?”

Listen: We have the historical account of the one who was. Yet, He is not just the one who was there; but He is the one who is, and will always be.