“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1.
This is what I believe. God created the heavens and the earth. Whether he created it using the big bang or some other method I do not care. It’s unimportant to my faith.
Whether it took us a billion years, five thousand years or six days is unimportant to my faith.
I see a universe from the largest galaxies to the smallest microbes and subatomic particles all governed by laws. There is no randomness in nature.
Where it seems like randomness it’s just a case that man has not found the formula or the pattern. Lets face it there is a lot man has yet to learn.
The lack of randomness and perfect order of the universe tells me there is a God of creation.
As I look into the heavens study science and read the Bible I am amazed at how they compliment each other. Keeping in mind especially that the Bible is a book of faith not intended to be used as a science book.
The psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Psalm 19:1.
The Bible talked of a point in time when the universe was created, when scientist and astronomers were saying that the Universe had always been. That it was in a fixed state.
Back in the 1980's N.A.S.A. sent two space craft on a mission that has now taken them beyond the solar system. Trillions of kilometres away from earth they turned it around and took a snapshot of earth. It was a tiny dot the size of the head of a pin. Looking at it, puts in perspective how insignificant we are in the universe. Yet the bible tells us that the God who crated the Universe and placed mankind on that dot chose to enter His creation and live briefly on that dot.
The apostle John noting,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made....
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 1:1-3,14.
To say that God could not come to earth in the form of Jesus is to limit the power of God at least in one area.
To my way of thinking our God who created the universe and everything in it had to enter the world He created. He had to take a part of his infinite being and enter the world in order to show man how much He loved them. He had to show man He not only intellectually that He knew what it was like to be man but that he physically knew what it was to be man. That he knew on an experiential level.
In Jesus he experienced all there it was to be human. To be tempted. To do everyday things like walk along a road. To attend a wedding. To be flogged and put to death for a crime he didn’t commit, for simple political expediency and everything else in between.
I could go on giving reason I believe in God and Jesus but ultimately it comes down to what you the reader think of God and Jesus.
The apostle Paul wrote,
"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength."
1 Corinthians 1:18-25.
For me if the message of the cross and Christ is foolishness, I have lost nothing. I have simply lived a good life. If it is true I have gained eternal life with my Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus.
Please think about it.
