In the beginning God created.... Genesis 1:1
"The Bible’s creation account (Genesis 1–2)
provides a logical explanation for the staggering complexity and design
of living things.
But it also resolves a paradox. Why do disease and
degeneration cause such exquisitely designed bodies to malfunction and
eventually die? Why do bad things happen? Why is there suffering in the
world?
The Bible provides the answers in its account of the Fall (Genesis 3).
The Bible makes sense of our spiritual condition. That God has written
His law on our hearts explains why we feel guilt for doing wrong despite
our frequent efforts to rationalize or justify our wrongdoing.
It also explains how God provided a way to remove our estrangement from
Him. We can be forgiven of our wrongdoings by turning from those wrongs
and believing that our Creator became a man, the Lord Jesus Christ, who
paid for our wrongdoing by living a perfect life, dying in our place,
and proving His claims by rising from the dead!
Genesis explains facts of our existence that could easily be overlooked
were it a human invention. It explains why, despite the awesome,
obvious design behind human reproduction (especially at the microscopic
level), women experience pain in childbirth. It also
explains why we experience shame at nakedness.
Q: If you were inventing
your own cosmology, would you have thought to include those details?
---The Bible makes sense of recorded history.
--God’s judgment in the Flood makes sense of the billions of fossilized
plants and animals entombed within water-deposited rocks around the
world. Marine and land fossils are often jumbled together, as one would
expect from a global cataclysmic flood.
--The hundreds of cultural
memories of the Flood retained by people groups around the world is
exactly what one would expect from a global cataclysm like the Flood.
--The Flood even provides a framework for explaining the Ice Age that’s vastly superior to secular explanations." ICR
