“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
Part 2
Simple, straightforward declaration. No ambiguities, no equivocations, no sophistry. This is how God speaks. This is what truth sounds like. All reality begins with God. Go wrong here and we sentence ourselves to trying to navigate a stormy world with no compass, no lighthouse, no fixed points of reference, only unmerciful darkness. God presents Himself as the explanation for the universe, though in Genesis He does not tell us why He has created. Pastor Edwards surely is correct when he asserts that God, before He created the world, “had some good in view as a consequence of the world’s existence.” It does not seem compatible to hold to any informed view of evolution and the Genesis creation account. We must choose. One who chose to deny the Genesis creation account was Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Darwin’s granddaughter, Nora Barlow, writes of him in the preface of his autobiography, “He still stands as the leading figure of that revolution in scientific thought which followed the publication of the Origin of Species in the middle of the 19th century, a revolution soon involving all realms of knowledge.” Darwin himself wrote in The Descent of Man, “Man, as I have attempted to show, is certainly descended from some apelike creature.” So, Charles, you are saying that Jesus Christ is descended from some apelike creature? Dr. Kenneth Matthews recounts the following in his excellent commentary on Genesis 1-11: “On Christmas Eve 1968, astronaut Frank Borman from the Apollo 8 spacecraft, orbiting the moon, read a message for the people of the earth: ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.’” Twenty-five years later, Borman reminisced, ‘I had an enormous feeling that there had to be a power greater than any of us. That there was a God, that there was indeed a beginning and that maybe even our choosing to read from Genesis wasn’t a haphazard thing. Maybe it had been ordained in some way.’” There indeed is a God and we little humans can seek to know Him, love Him, and serve Him. Or you can spend time looking at pictures of apes for a family resemblance.