Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Creation Moment 5/5/2021 - Genesis Makes Sense of Things

 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