Question: What is Creation?
Answer: Creation is God’s making everything out of nothing
by His powerful word in six days—and all very good.
No person has every created anything.
You might be thinking, “I
made a model airplane,” or “I sew my
children’s clothes.” But we must remember that making something and
creating something are different.
When you assemble a kit you begin with the parts in a box,
and when you fashion clothes you grab thread and a needle. Creating means to
start with nothing and end up with something.
The Bible begins by saying, “In the beginning God created
[started with nothing] the heavens and the earth.” There were no particles, no
atoms, no cells with which to work; God said, “Let there be,” and everything we
see came into existence.
Some teach that the universe created itself, possibly
through the Big Bang. There are many flaws with that theory, not the least of
which is the origin of the subatomic particles that exploded. The Big Bang is a
theory from chaos—a belief that disorder created order. The universe is
governed by laws, such as physics and gravity; there is no reason to believe
that a collision would create a law abiding system.
It is also important to believe that God created the
universe in six days. Some argue that each day represented a thousand or a
million years, but the Bible says, “the evening and the morning were the first
day (and the second day, and the third day…).”
If you think that each day represented a long period of
time, then notice the order in the days of creation: on Day 3 God created plant
life, and on Day 4 He created the sun. How could the plants live for thousands
of years with no sun?
Believing in the biblical creation account is important,
because if God got the first page wrong then we can throw out everything else.
The Bible teaches that God created everything we see out of nothing, and that
He did so in six literal days, and He rested on the seventh day.
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