A repost. As originally published on EV Mail News for the week of December 19-25, 2011.
This is where everything we know about our world and the whole known universe all started. This was the beginning of the story of man and the earth. I don't know about you but this short passage in the Bible is more than enough for me to know that God literally created the heavens and the earth out of nothing, just by the Word of His mouth, at the onset of time.
And yet, apparently, this is not enough for some people, especially for the scientists and the "so-called" experts in the field of life sciences. They've been searching, and are still searching to this day, for the origins of human beings and all the living things on earth. They've conjured up various theories and hypotheses throughout the years to satisfy their own questioning and insatiable minds. Sadly, all those theories and hypotheses remain as that --just a bunch of theories and hypotheses.
There is still a great deal of things that I personally don’t know and of which I probably won't know or understand in my lifetime but I’m not afraid to admit it. This is not due to my lack of knowledge and education, or of any ignorance on my part (of which I'm sure I have a heaping measure in me). This lack of understanding is because I'm a limited being. My mind can only grasp so much and my wisdom is finite. I don't care if you are some kind of a genius, it's still a fact that your intelligence and comprehension can only go so far, and your knowledge can never be invincible, your thoughts will never be endless.
So whatever theories all the geniuses of this world come up with in regards to the creation of the world for as long as they're not in line with God's Scriptures, I'm afraid that I have to say this: they're all figments of man's imagination, and are therefore, fiction and inaccurate at its best. This may sound like a closed-minded attack on science and all the logical studies in the realm of education known to man, but really it is not.
Science is a great tool given to us in order to learn the wonderful facts and lessons about the living world and all of creation. There are even scientists who live and work in their own fields of specialized studies who make it their life's mission to show the unbelievers that God's Word is true and infallible through the use of scientific methods, facts, proofs and evidences.
The Bible and science are not necessarily opposite. They don't necessarily contradict each other. Science when used properly can be a great way to back-up and prove that what the Bible has recorded from years past and what it teaches us today are true and factual. There are innumerable material and physical evidences available here on earth alone which point to show that what the Bible says is true. Those evidences are overwhelming but not necessarily popular nor commonly known. For some reason, most of the school systems in the world refuse or somehow neglect to teach these scientific and biblical facts which are in conjunction with each other.
Also, one of those things I don't necessarily comprehend now is how and when the "beginning" actually started. I do know that God is not bound by space nor time, or by age as we know it, but He knows that the notion of time is important to man. So when God says "in the beginning," it meant the beginning of time as known to people and not to Him. God is immortal. He has existed beyond the limits of time. God came from eternity past and will continue to exist unto the eternity future as He has promised in His Word.
These are mind-boggling truths which I don't even dwell upon too much for fear of a brain hemorrhage. I will leave it up to God and I'll wait patiently until the day when He shows me the "big and complete picture." I can't wait to spend eternity with Him and with the multitudes of His children, and all the angels in heaven, as we worship and praise Him day and night, and also swap stories of how things went from before time into the beyond. What a majestic truth to behold! Glory to God!
"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." –John 1:1-6
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