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Another story cannot explain how anything came into existence, but says that once a big ball of “something” exploded and the universe was formed. Within that universe a ball of gas and debris became rock and water and something began to grow in the slime. Eventually, a living sea creature came into existence in the water. One day it crawled upon the earth and became many different animals before it became a man and woman. The myth says that we are an accident.
These are some examples of various creation myths. Does anyone know how the universe was created?
Where did we come from? The answer cannot be observed. No one was present when the first piece of matter came
into existence. It is not possible for us to know how something was created out of nothing. It is a mystery
we do not understand with our human minds. We are more accustomed to cause and effect. How can we have something
from nothing? We would need to be God to know the answer, or we need God to tell us. God gives us the answer
in the Bible.
The Bible has given us many prophecies to authenticate itself as coming from God. Session 2 gave us a number of important prophecies which have been fulfilled, and the book titled Evidence That Demands A Verdict by Josh McDowell lists many more. The Bible contains prophecies including predictions about cities, nations, places, people, and most importantly - Jesus Christ. They give us a reason to trust in the Bible as being sacred. There is not any other book like it. We can trust the Bible. It tells us how the universe was created, and the story is not fanciful. It requires only an all powerful being called God who does not use eggs, sex, or millions of years to accomplish anything. Why doesn’t the all powerful God need time to accomplish His wishes?
God’s Creative Act. In Genesis 1 God tells us that He created the world in
six twenty-four hour days. He created our universe suddenly. Now that is power! That is what one can expect
from God. He created a mature earth and an adult man and woman - Adam and Eve. The heavens and the earth and
all that it contains were created in six days. The word “day” in the Hebrew language is YOHM. In Genesis 1
the word is used with a number such as the “first (1) day,” the “second (2) day, for example. When this happens,
the word “day” refers to a 24 hour day - just as it does today. When Moses wrote that God made the heavens
and earth in six days, his readers assumed 24 hour periods. Moses never says anything differently in the passage.
This tells us the six days of creation are six 24 hour days. Scripture teaches that God created
the universe suddenly and with maturity. Man was not created out of some egg, by some secondary god, the result
of the Japanese concept of In and Yo, or somehow two sexes simultaneously evolved from water. We were intentionally
created by a God who self-exists. Where did He come from? He has simply always existed. That is the mystery
of God.
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