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hi 'j',
When I have these discussions regarding the literalness of the creation account, I'm always struck with the thought that what it all really boils down to is whether we truly believe and acknowledge and understand the power and majesty of our Creator.
You see, as I understand the Scriptures, this entire realm of existence was created by a Creator whose soul purpose when He spoke the very first, "Let there be...", was to build a magnificent home for mankind. All those planets and stars and asteroids and such that you see when you look up into the night sky. My Father put everyone of them there in a mere moment as He built a universe that would be the home of man. He, by His eternal power and wisdom, started with just a single planet and He tenderly and wisely built that planet to have every physical thing that man would need to exist in a body of flesh. He didn't take millions and billions of years to bring that singular planet to completion, but rather mere moments in time. He spoke, and suddenly there were animals and plants that filled the dry surface and the seas.
Then He populated all the empty black nothingness around that singular planet with billions and billions of stars and planets and asteroids and such. Not in a trillion years, but in a mere moment He simply spoke and said, "Let it be thus", and it was, nearly instantly. All because His first cause for building this universe was that He was making a home for a creature that He would call man. A creature that would be a little lower than the angelic realm that He had already created. Man would not have the power of strength, or the spirit like bodies that the angels He created would have. Man would be different, but man needed a suitable place to live and God created it all. Then He made man and He knew that man would sin, but He would provide a way to cull from all of the existence of mankind some who would love Him and believe Him and trust Him and desire to live with Him in the perfect eternalness that is His own existence.
So, God created, and man became. But the ultimate end of God's goal is not yet. God's goal will be completed when we see the day that is spoken of in the Revelation of Jesus, chapters 21-22. There is coming a day when God is going to cleanse both the angelic realm and our earthly realm of sin and disobedience. That is the ultimate and final promise of the Scriptures to those who have trusted in their Creator. He will separate the wheat from the chaff. Or as Jesus described it, the wheat from the tares. God will send His obedient angels to cull from the earth all of mankind and He will judge in righteousness and truth. Both the disobedient angels and men will be cast out and those who chose His way as the way of righteousness will be forever cared for and loved by Him.
But God did not take millions or billions of years to bring His creation up to speed to be able to provide an adequate home for mankind. No! Not at all. God created it all perfectly by the power of His word in six days just as He has caused to be written to us and He will, just about as quickly, bring it all to a close. To me, it all boils down to our asking of our Creator, "God, what was your purpose in creating?" When we understand that that purpose was to make a home for mankind, and then lay out the plan of salvation for mankind, then we fairly quickly understand that all of this nonsense about it taking millions, billions of years for God to get to what He needed so that He could reach the goal that is described in the Revelation of Jesus just seems so nonsensical.
Sadly, man has taken what God has created and set it under the microscopes of study that we have made of our own wisdom and work diligently to teach people that what God has done and said that He has done just isn't possible. There must be some misunderstanding! We just aren't reading the Scriptures right because the man-made science says that it just can't be so!
So, is one's faith in God and His word and His promises and power and glory and majesty or is our faith rather in what man has proven and man has said is the truth?
Which is it.
You see, friend, God has been clear. He said it was a day and He defined that day for you as an evening and a morning so that when you got to this day when you'd be searching for the answer among the wisdom of men, you could tell them, "No, I'm sorry, but what you propose cannot be, because God has made it clear to me that He did it in six days and He further defined each day as being a normal day which consists of an evening or a morning. Further He caused His Holy Spirit to write that same claim in His word at least two other times and even based our week of six days and rest on the very same definition of the six days of work and one day of rest that He made in the beginning of this realm which He made for the home of man."
Friend, God has made it clear, but we are loath to turn our backs on the wisdom of man and rather embrace the 'foolishness of God'.
God bless you.
In Christ, Ted
When I have these discussions regarding the literalness of the creation account, I'm always struck with the thought that what it all really boils down to is whether we truly believe and acknowledge and understand the power and majesty of our Creator.
You see, as I understand the Scriptures, this entire realm of existence was created by a Creator whose soul purpose when He spoke the very first, "Let there be...", was to build a magnificent home for mankind. All those planets and stars and asteroids and such that you see when you look up into the night sky. My Father put everyone of them there in a mere moment as He built a universe that would be the home of man. He, by His eternal power and wisdom, started with just a single planet and He tenderly and wisely built that planet to have every physical thing that man would need to exist in a body of flesh. He didn't take millions and billions of years to bring that singular planet to completion, but rather mere moments in time. He spoke, and suddenly there were animals and plants that filled the dry surface and the seas.
Then He populated all the empty black nothingness around that singular planet with billions and billions of stars and planets and asteroids and such. Not in a trillion years, but in a mere moment He simply spoke and said, "Let it be thus", and it was, nearly instantly. All because His first cause for building this universe was that He was making a home for a creature that He would call man. A creature that would be a little lower than the angelic realm that He had already created. Man would not have the power of strength, or the spirit like bodies that the angels He created would have. Man would be different, but man needed a suitable place to live and God created it all. Then He made man and He knew that man would sin, but He would provide a way to cull from all of the existence of mankind some who would love Him and believe Him and trust Him and desire to live with Him in the perfect eternalness that is His own existence.
So, God created, and man became. But the ultimate end of God's goal is not yet. God's goal will be completed when we see the day that is spoken of in the Revelation of Jesus, chapters 21-22. There is coming a day when God is going to cleanse both the angelic realm and our earthly realm of sin and disobedience. That is the ultimate and final promise of the Scriptures to those who have trusted in their Creator. He will separate the wheat from the chaff. Or as Jesus described it, the wheat from the tares. God will send His obedient angels to cull from the earth all of mankind and He will judge in righteousness and truth. Both the disobedient angels and men will be cast out and those who chose His way as the way of righteousness will be forever cared for and loved by Him.
But God did not take millions or billions of years to bring His creation up to speed to be able to provide an adequate home for mankind. No! Not at all. God created it all perfectly by the power of His word in six days just as He has caused to be written to us and He will, just about as quickly, bring it all to a close. To me, it all boils down to our asking of our Creator, "God, what was your purpose in creating?" When we understand that that purpose was to make a home for mankind, and then lay out the plan of salvation for mankind, then we fairly quickly understand that all of this nonsense about it taking millions, billions of years for God to get to what He needed so that He could reach the goal that is described in the Revelation of Jesus just seems so nonsensical.
Sadly, man has taken what God has created and set it under the microscopes of study that we have made of our own wisdom and work diligently to teach people that what God has done and said that He has done just isn't possible. There must be some misunderstanding! We just aren't reading the Scriptures right because the man-made science says that it just can't be so!
So, is one's faith in God and His word and His promises and power and glory and majesty or is our faith rather in what man has proven and man has said is the truth?
Which is it.
You see, friend, God has been clear. He said it was a day and He defined that day for you as an evening and a morning so that when you got to this day when you'd be searching for the answer among the wisdom of men, you could tell them, "No, I'm sorry, but what you propose cannot be, because God has made it clear to me that He did it in six days and He further defined each day as being a normal day which consists of an evening or a morning. Further He caused His Holy Spirit to write that same claim in His word at least two other times and even based our week of six days and rest on the very same definition of the six days of work and one day of rest that He made in the beginning of this realm which He made for the home of man."
Friend, God has made it clear, but we are loath to turn our backs on the wisdom of man and rather embrace the 'foolishness of God'.
God bless you.
In Christ, Ted
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