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I don't understand the point of creationism

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Based on a couple decades of conversing with creationists and more broadly Christians in general, I've come away with two basic conclusions re: creationism:

1) It's not required for salvation by Jesus Christ.

2) It's not derived on the basis of God's Creation.
I don't otherwise see the point of adopting creationist beliefs.
Ones might claim to be creationist, but their idea might not be how God would have them understand His creation.

If God can resurrect people in less than a second, surely He could create a universe in less than a second. So, the creation report can help us to believe in how God is able.

What matters, then, is the "therefore" of a person's belief. Therefore what does the person do and want to do?

Does a person's way of creationism help him or her to find out how to love? Or, is one's beliefs more for driving the person to seek political and social reforms . . . for seeking to control people?? Does a believer in creation see how God is able and therefore we need to not depend on our own selves? It is possible there are creationists who are depending on their own selves to prove creation; that could be like a monkey depending on oneself to prove the existence of humans . . . I suppose.

I would say that if God created the universe, we humans are so less than He is; so certainly we no way can really understand it. And so, possibly, no way can science relate to and prove creation which was done according to God Himself and His ways "past finding out" (Romans 11:33) which are not merely according to physical principles.

By the way, I find it interesting that atoms and molecules could give rise to our brains so highly functional, yet we can be so self-destructive and not able to rightly understand things. If atoms and molecules are so able to evolve themselves into more and more capable beings, why is their highest product so ruining of things????

From the creation report, I see love lessons. God so creative in us can make us creative for how to love any person, at all. And God blessed His creation, at the beginning > and we see how so many things and living beings are still going, after however many thousands of years of how evil has been acting to eat and destroy them > this shows how much blessing can do, in spite of all evil. And Jesus tells us to bless even evil people; consider, then, how much our blessing in Jesus can accomplish . . . even into eternity :)
 
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