Creation Moment 1/18/2025 - When the CREATOR Wore Sandals

"Most New Testament scholars agree that Mark was the first of the four gospel accounts to be written. Mark’s gospel is a simple, concise account, focusing more on what Jesus did than on what He taught.

Mark’s recounting of events has an ‘on-the-spot’ quality that is

characteristic of eyewitness reports. Early Christian tradition closely associates Mark (not one of Jesus’ twelve chosen disciples) with the apostle Peter. Thus, they regard Mark’s Gospel as mainly recording the reminiscences and preaching of Peter, who refers affectionately to Mark as “my son” (She who is in Babylon, elect together with you, greets you; and so does Mark my son. 1 Peter 5:13).

Before Jesus is introduced to center-stage, however, Mark puts the beginning of His ministry in its proper scriptural context by quoting two Old Testament passages which point to John the Baptist as the one sent by God to ‘prepare the way’ for Jesus.

In our mind’s eye, then, let us follow a typical day in the earthly life of Jesus (as recorded in Mark 4). It is morning. The shores of Lake Galilee are crowded with people who have come to hear Jesus.

The miracles recorded in Mark are not capable of being explained via natural causes, nor did they require long ages, or any appreciable time, to occur. Such miracles would be utterly impossible without the kind of supernatural power that could create the world and its creatures from nothing in six days." 

CMI