JUL 12

Genesis 1-2
Memorise Genesis 1:21
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”

There is a huge controversy raging in Christendom today concerning the interpretation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis. There are many who claim to be Bible-believing Christians, yet in the same breath turn around and cast doubt upon God’s Word. Instead of taking God at His word and believing the simple understanding of Scripture to be true, these people have elevated science and human understanding to become their authority. They look at the creation account of Genesis 1 and 2; the account of man’s fall in Genesis 3; long lives of the patriarchs in Genesis 4-5; the accounts of the global flood in Genesis 6-8; and the beginning of races and languages in Genesis 11 and dismiss them all as myth! They say that these are but a collection of legends and stories passed down through the ages, and cannot be understood as a literal historical account of what really happened. The reason why they take such a view is because what they read in the Bible just does not seem to tally with what they learn in modern science, archaeology, history and anthropology. Scientists would tell us that the world is billions of years old, created by a big bang, and that man evolved from a ‘primordial soup’ of elements. This seems to contradict the simple truths of Genesis, and thus they decide to reinterpret the Bible with this modernistic godless worldview. As a result, what happens is God’s Word is compromised and ignored, and science and man’s wisdom become the source of truth. 

As Bible-believing Christians, we must simply take God at His Word. The Scriptures clearly state that God created everything in the beginning out of nothing, and that the whole Creation was created in six literal 24- hour days. The line ‘and the evening and the morning’ clearly attests to that fact. The moment we accept the atheistic theories of evolution, we reject the idea that man was created in the image of God, that God’s creation was ‘very good’. Instead, the world around us becomes nothing more than a coincidental accumulation of death, mutation and decay. The doctrines of sin and judgment have to be completely reinterpreted as well, because death would seem to be a part of the natural order of things, and not a judgment that came as a consequence of sin. This cannot be! God created the world perfect, and will one day restore all things in the New Heaven and Earth that we look forward to. 

Thought: God created me, not by random chance.
Prayer: Lord, I thank You for the wonders of creation, for it shows forth Your handiwork.