In a sense, what is recorded in the pages of Scripture is a “birth certificate” for the earth and universe – a way of accurately identifying the birthdate of the universe and calculating the age based on that information. What is this “birth certificate”? Genesis 1:1! The earth and universe were created at the beginning […]
Category: Genesis
Six days….really?
“God is all-powerful, He could have created over millions of years, right?” Of course, but the question is not what God could have done; rather, it is what did He say He did. And as the believer takes an honest look at the creation account in Genesis 1, the clarity of what God said He […]
Why didn’t God make the world perfect?
Actually, He did make it perfect. Today’s world is a shattered representation of God’s original creation (Romans 8:22). The Bible records in Genesis 1:31 that God declared at the end of day six of creation that all He had made was “very good” Of course, that begs the question of what is “good” to the […]
Why do you believe creation?
Christians are instructed to build all of their thinking on the foundation of God’s Word by taking every thought captive and making it obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). Therefore, Bible-believers believe in creation first and foremost because that is what the Bible plainly reveals. In Job 38:4, God asks Job a rhetorical question, “Where […]
Why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden and tell Adam and Eve not to eat of it?
First, God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden so that Adam would have to live antithetically, saying “Yes” to God and “No” to sin. God receives great glory when man lives antithetically. If the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not in the Garden, then […]