Hello Paul Wilson,
Quoted Paul Wilson: I believein 'The Big Bang' theorey that the scientests have came up with. It makes sense.
And what God said He did through the Bible does not make sense? The big bang theory is based on the anti-God philosophy of humanism, while the Bible is the Inspired Word of God. Who are you going to trust, man who were not there and whose natural tendency is to rebell (sin) against God, or God Himself who was there and who never lies as revealed through His Word, the Bible?
Note to moderators: this is not implying or other wise that those Christians who believe the big bang and evolutionary beliefs aren't Christians, but they have destroyed the basis of the Gospel to which they claim to believe, i.e. no death before Adam and a literal belief in Adam's rebellion against God are essential to Jesus' earthly life being made neccessary, or as Richard Bozarth puts it in The Meaning of Evolution,
American Atheist, p.30 Sep. 20, 1979:
Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of god. Take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the redeemer that died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.
Quoted Paul Wilson: You cannot have natural light without having the Sun. According to the old testimate on the first day, God created light. But on the forth day, God created the Sun.
[1]Did you know that the sun is not needed for day and night? What is needed is light and a rotating Earth. On the first day of creation, God made light (Genesis 1:3). The phrase "evening and morning" certainly implies a rotating Earth. Thus, if we have light from one direction, and a spinning Earth, there can be day and night. Where did the light come from?We are not told [2], but Genesis 1:3 certainly indicates it was a created light to provide day and night until God made the sun on the fourth day to rule the day He had made. Revelation 21:23 tells us that one day the sun will not be needed, as the Glory of God will light the heavenly city!
Perhaps, one reason God did it this way was to illustrate that the sun did not have the priority in the creation that people have tended to give it. The sun did not give birth to teh Earth as evolutionary theories suggest; the sun was God's created tool to rule the day that God had made (Geneesi 1:16).
Down through the ages people, such as the Egyptians, have worshipped the sun. God warned teh Israelites in Deuteronomy 4:19 not to worship the sun like the pagan cultures around them did. They were commanded to worship the God who made the sun - not the sun that was made by God.
Evolutionary theories state that the sun came before the Earth, and that the sun's energy on the Earth eventually gave rise to life. Just as in pagan beliefs, the sun is, in a sense, given credit for the wonder of creation.
It's interesting to contrast the speculations of modern cosmology with the writings of the early church father Theophilus:
"On the fourth day the luminaries came into existence. Since God has foreknowledge, He understood the nonsense of the foolish philosophers who were going to say that the things produced on Earth came from the stars, so that they might set God aside. In order therefore that the truth might be demonstrated, plants and seeds came into existence before stars.
For what comes into existence later cannot cause what is prior to it." [emphasis added]
more 2 life [M2L]
References:
[1] The Updated & Expanded Answers Book, p. 34, Edited by Don Batten.
[2] Some people ask why God did not tell us the source of this light. However, if God told us everything, we would have so many books we would not have time to read them. God has given us all the information we need to come to the right conclusions about the things that really matter.
