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Genesis 1:1 tells us that in the beginning God made the heavens and the earth. Later on in Genesis 1, God makes the various stages of what supports life, including the waters, and then life itself. The Bible tells us that in the last stage, Verse 26, God makes man.
But what man did god create? In Genesis 1:26, God says “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Which leads some to wonder, why didn’t God just say, ‘Let us make man?’ Arguably, by saying “Let us make man in our image,” God was merely explaining to His angels what a man is, that is, a man is someone who looks like them.
But is it possible that when God said to “make man in our image,” he was distinguishing his man from that which may have evolved in the prior stages of His Creation? God in Isaiah 1:18 gives us room to reason, if it helps us to accept Him as He wants us to. In man’s history, science was formed to explain the natural world. But as God created everything in the beginning, He created the natural world too. And as John 21:25 cracks the door open to the possibility that not everything that God did is written in the Bible, could not have things happened that are not written in the Bible?
Consider the discovery of Neanderthal Man. Is there anyone who believes that Neanderthal Man is in God’s Image? In a sense, if that were true, then the old Geico commercials which employ a cave man would arguably be committing blasphemy, in a sense that could any God-fearing person conceive of God selling insurance?
Apart from that, it is reasonable to believe that Neanderthal Man was created in one of the stages prior to when man that was created in God’s image appeared. From here, there are two possibilities: Either God Himself created Neanderthal Man, or, as science would tell us, Neanderthal Man evolved. But as to the latter, in that sense, could God have not created life in the beginning with an ability to evolve?
Arguably, what gives weight to God creating evolution is John 1:3 which says that all things were made through him, and “without him was not any thing made that was made.” Why the qualifying quote? Why not just leave it that all things were made through God? I tell you there is a strong suggestion that John is telling us that God created life which He programmed to create other life. On that basis, then, it is conceivable that, say, Neanderthal Man, who was not created in God’s image, evolved from the ape.
Those of us who drive cars, use a telephone, listen to music through our cars, and use air conditioners in the summertime could reason that God didn’t make these things. He made the elements which gave rise to these things, but man made these things from the elements. Is there any place in the Bible, not just the Old Testament but in the New Testament, that describes people using these things? And going back to Genesis, did God create the Tower of Babel? The qualifying quote in John 1:3 could serve to establish that at least some things that were made AFTER THE BEGINNING were not directly made by God, they were made indirectly to the extent that God provided the raw materials. In that sense, evolution could have been God’s way of providing the raw materials for life forms to adapt. So, as birds evolved from the same makeup as dinosaurs, Neanderthal Man was the result of the ape adapting to its environment.
But what man did god create? In Genesis 1:26, God says “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Which leads some to wonder, why didn’t God just say, ‘Let us make man?’ Arguably, by saying “Let us make man in our image,” God was merely explaining to His angels what a man is, that is, a man is someone who looks like them.
But is it possible that when God said to “make man in our image,” he was distinguishing his man from that which may have evolved in the prior stages of His Creation? God in Isaiah 1:18 gives us room to reason, if it helps us to accept Him as He wants us to. In man’s history, science was formed to explain the natural world. But as God created everything in the beginning, He created the natural world too. And as John 21:25 cracks the door open to the possibility that not everything that God did is written in the Bible, could not have things happened that are not written in the Bible?
Consider the discovery of Neanderthal Man. Is there anyone who believes that Neanderthal Man is in God’s Image? In a sense, if that were true, then the old Geico commercials which employ a cave man would arguably be committing blasphemy, in a sense that could any God-fearing person conceive of God selling insurance?
Apart from that, it is reasonable to believe that Neanderthal Man was created in one of the stages prior to when man that was created in God’s image appeared. From here, there are two possibilities: Either God Himself created Neanderthal Man, or, as science would tell us, Neanderthal Man evolved. But as to the latter, in that sense, could God have not created life in the beginning with an ability to evolve?
Arguably, what gives weight to God creating evolution is John 1:3 which says that all things were made through him, and “without him was not any thing made that was made.” Why the qualifying quote? Why not just leave it that all things were made through God? I tell you there is a strong suggestion that John is telling us that God created life which He programmed to create other life. On that basis, then, it is conceivable that, say, Neanderthal Man, who was not created in God’s image, evolved from the ape.
Those of us who drive cars, use a telephone, listen to music through our cars, and use air conditioners in the summertime could reason that God didn’t make these things. He made the elements which gave rise to these things, but man made these things from the elements. Is there any place in the Bible, not just the Old Testament but in the New Testament, that describes people using these things? And going back to Genesis, did God create the Tower of Babel? The qualifying quote in John 1:3 could serve to establish that at least some things that were made AFTER THE BEGINNING were not directly made by God, they were made indirectly to the extent that God provided the raw materials. In that sense, evolution could have been God’s way of providing the raw materials for life forms to adapt. So, as birds evolved from the same makeup as dinosaurs, Neanderthal Man was the result of the ape adapting to its environment.
