God And Creation

However, if they only read this one verse, it will tell them a great deal about the God of the Bible. This one scripture is considered to be the FOUNDATION which the Word of God is built upon.

Since this is the case, is it any wonder that Genesis 1:1 is specifically targeted by those who try to discredit God's Word?

For example, there are different ideas about how Creation came about. Even children have their version.

Illus: Mrs. Harvey Kidd said, “My young grandson, Richard, and I recently vacationed in the Rocky Mountains. One day, we had stopped to admire their grandeur, and after a few minutes of thoughtful silence, Richard broke out, ‘Just think--God did all this with only one hand!’ I puzzled over this for a moment, then asked him what he meant. ‘Oh, you know, Grandmother,’ he replied, ‘the Bible says Jesus was sitting on the right hand of God.’" (Mrs. Harvey Kidd, Hernando, MS. Today's Christian Woman, "Heart to Heart.)

That is not exactly what the Bible teaches when it comes to the Lord sitting on the right hand of God.

Genesis 1:1 tells us at least THREE things that we need to consider about creation. First, let’s look at-

I. GOD'S PRESENTATION

In verse 1, we read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

Through the centuries, men have argued about HOW THE EARTH, UNIVERSE, AND THE INHABITANTS OF EARTH CAME INTO EXISTENCE.

God created every one of us. Sometimes we look at people and we think God did a better job on some than He did on others.

Illus: A little girl crawled up into her great grandmother's lap one day. And looking up into her great grandmother's face she saw all those crevices, lines, and wrinkles. Then she felt her own smooth baby-like skin. She said to her great grandmother, "Did God make you?" Her great grandmother said, "Yes honey, God made me." Then the little girl said, "Well great grandmother, did God make me?" Her great grandmother said, "Oh yes, God made you too." And then the little girl said, "Well great grandmother, don't you think God's doing a lot better job these days?" - Mike Minix

The Bible declares this astounding truth - GOD CREATED IT ALL! The reason this is considered to be THE FOUNDATION OF THE BIBLE is because immediately it tells us two things about God.

• It declares that there is a God

• It declares that God is the One Who created the EARTH, UNIVERSE, AND MANKIND

Notice, the God of the Bible refutes something that some of the leading scholars in America teach - He refutes EVOLUTION! Without argument, God, in four little words, refutes everything ungodly men teach concerning evolution.

God simply states, "IN THE BEGINNING GOD..."

We hear about the scientists today who do not believe in Creationism, but we seldom hear about those who do.

Illus: Several years ago a scientist wrote an article entitled, "Seven Reasons Why I Believe in God."

(1) He said, "Consider the rotation of the earth. Our globe spins on its axis at the rate of one thousand miles an hour. If it were just a hundred miles an hour, our days and nights would be ten times as long. The vegetation would freeze in the long night or it would burn in the long day; and there could be no life."

(2) He said, "Consider the heat of the sun. Twelve thousand degrees at surface temperature, and we're just far enough away to be blessed by that terrific heat.”

(3) He said, “Consider this, If the sun gave off half its radiation, we would freeze to death. If it gave off one half more, we would all be crispy critters."

(4) He said, "Consider the slant of the earth, twenty-three degrees. If it were different than that, the vapors from the oceans would ice over the continents. There could be no life."

(5) He said, "Consider the moon. If the moon were fifty thousand miles away rather than its present distance, twice each day giant tides would inundate every bit of land mass on this earth."

(6) He said consider this, "Think of the crust of the earth. Just a little bit thicker and there could be no life because there would be no oxygen.”

(7) He said consider, “The thinness of the atmosphere. If our atmosphere was just a little thinner, the millions of meteors now burning themselves out in space would plummet this earth into oblivion”.

These are reasons, he said, "Why I believe in God." (Frank Pollard, "Our Greatest Victory," Preaching Today, Tape No. 175. )

Some men would have you believe that we came through the process of evolution. They are not clear about exactly how it happened, but they think through something happening to a particle of dust, matter, energy, electrical impulse, atom, proton, neutron, electron, gas or something else, everything came to be as it is now.