When some people read - or maybe just hear about because they've never actually read the Bible - the story of creation in Genesis chapters 1 and 2, they begin to question it based on what we've been taught by science over the years.
Was it really six 24 hour days? Why is the order of creation different? Why are things aged at milllions of years rather than thousands? What about the dinosaurs? What about the ice age? What about the skeletons of early man? What about evolution? Those questions and others may make for interesting discussions with people much more scholarly than me but they miss the whole point.
The point is..."In the beginning, God..." Genesis 1:1. The focus is not a scientific treatise on creation but the foundation for history, HIS story, God's story of His work and purposes for this world and for people who are created in His image, not descended from animals but uniquely created to know Him. Genesis 1:26-31
Man has made all sorts of scientific discoveries over the years and has made much of himself and his ability to create. Often we have taken the questions of life and death into our own hands and taken God out of it. We are actually striving at times to be God and fancy ourselves to be pretty smart.
Our biggest mistake is not that we use the resources and the curiosity and the brains God has given us to seek out answers to life's questions but that we have pushed God away as if the resources and curiosity and brains were not given to us by God in the first place. I like the story that's been around for years about the scientist who goes to God to say we don't need You anymore. God challenges the scientist to make a man from dirt. The scientist says no problem and grabs a handful from the ground. Then God stops him and says you have to get your own dirt.
Thank You, Lord God, for the gifts, talents and abilities You have given me. Thank You for creating me in Your image. Help me always to remember that without You I am nothing so that I will give You glory and praise and honor for all You do through me. Amen
Our biggest mistake is not that we use the resources and the curiosity and the brains God has given us to seek out answers to life's questions but that we have pushed God away as if the resources and curiosity and brains were not given to us by God in the first place. I like the story that's been around for years about the scientist who goes to God to say we don't need You anymore. God challenges the scientist to make a man from dirt. The scientist says no problem and grabs a handful from the ground. Then God stops him and says you have to get your own dirt.
Thank You, Lord God, for the gifts, talents and abilities You have given me. Thank You for creating me in Your image. Help me always to remember that without You I am nothing so that I will give You glory and praise and honor for all You do through me. Amen
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