The Truth About The Creation
God's Glory, God's Handiwork, God's
Word, The Genesis Account
A Dissertation by Pastor Ed Rice January 2017
INTRODUCTION
If
one is going to believe in the inerrancy of Holy Scripture in the
21st century, they must give all diligence to
add to their
faith, virtue; and to virtue knowledge (2Pet 1:5); this work is
intended to help with the latter. Science is a branch of learning
dealing with systematic principles used to increase knowledge. A
Christian, striving to increase in knowledge, should use science. We
cannot be ignorant, there has been a highjacking of the name science.
There are those striving to twist scientific principles in a global
effort to find a natural explanation for everything in the LORD God's
universe. Their diabolical purpose is to disallow any consideration
of the Super-Natural, even to deny Him in the very existence of his
universe.
The opposition of God and highjacking of science must not, however,
deter the Christian from using true science in the advancement of
truth. When God created the universe in six-days, as the Bible
clearly, and repeatedly affirms, then the branch of learning, dealing
with systematic principles to increase knowledge, i.e. science,
can support his explanations of exactly how he did it.
God's word details that he created the universe out of nothing.
Science exploring the tiniest particles of matter might discover that
they are made of nothing; and our grandest telescopes peering into
the outer bounds of God's finite universe might find some
“nothing”
still coming and going. Indeed science has discovered both phenomena
and investigating how that is so will increase your faith in God's
word. “Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed
thee
from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth
forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by
myself”
(Isa 44:24).
When the LORD God's inerrant revelation gives a chronology of events
showing the universe to be just over 6,000 years old, then true
science can discover the evidence that supports his truth. Not only
so, but the science which contradicts that truth is flawed, fudged,
and/or misleading.
There are three primary things that make the atheistic evolutionist
insist that the Earth and universe are billions of years old: 1)
light from outer regions of space, millions of light-years away, must
have taken millions of years to get here; 2) geological ages of rocks
show them to be millions and billions of years old; and 3) Darwinian
evolution happens so-so slow that it must have taken millions of
years to unfold. Man thinks about time as a natural, linear, and
unchangable measure. In this study time is examined as a created
entity which has multiple dimensions and interconnections. Time
interacts with God's space and matter continuums. These interactions
of time with space and matter are just now being discovered and
explored by science; they are easily understandable to the exploring
mind of the Bible believer, and they can debunk the three myths just
mentioned.
A Bible believer who understands the dimensions and interconnections
of time in the universe of God can shake the house of cards built up
by the atheistic evolutionist. It is well worth the effort, and can
open vistas of depth to the believer who holds to the principle that
God says what he means and means what he says.
After 1,800 years of mans prediluvian existence it repented the LORD
God that he had made man, and he sent a world flood which destroyed
all those not in his Ark. That is God's revealed truth, and science,
true science, can display the evidence for such a catastrophic
destruction. God broke up the fountains of the great deep, to produce
his
world flood, and then he miraculously caused the flood waters to
recede. This was not a natural event in any sense or understanding,
but true science can find evidence, in mountain ranges, in erosion
from run off, in glaciers, and in receding glaciers, that supports
God's record and time frame. There must be evidence which depicts
the truth of God's revealed Word and there is.
In general people believe pretty much what they want to believe. In
the 17th century Francesco Redi, a physician of
Arrezzo
Italy, set out to disprove the spontaneous generation of life that
occurred when dead meat was left out in the sunshine. He put a fine
screen over some and left some uncovered on the plate. The atheistic
evolutionist of the day, who knew for a fact that spontaneous
generation of life occurred in unattended meat, now began to
investigate how sunlight passing through a fine screen some how
inhibits spontaneous generation of life. People are going to believe
pretty much what they want to believe. This is more true with the
world flood evidence than with many other phenomena.
The believer looks at a large canyon and sees where water rapidly ran
off after God's world flood; the atheistic evolutionists sees
millions of years of natural errosion. The believer walks through the
two mile gorge in Watkins Glen, NY and sees the shear face of rock
that was split asunder when God broke up the foundations of the deep;
the atheistic evolutionist considers Sir Charles Lyell's theory of
uniformity and sees only millions of years of rock layers, which must
have stacked one upon another. The believer considers evidence that a
continental glacier once stood above the Finger Lakes of Upstate NY
and supposes that it was left over after God's world flood; the
atheistic evolutionists knows for certain that there was an ice age
during the Pleistocene Period, two and a half million years ago.
The information in this dissertation will not likely sway the
atheistic evolutionists from his atheism or his evolution;
“They
are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world
heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that
is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and
the spirit of error' (1John 4:5-6). This dissertation can, however
engage the believer with facts that can add to his faith knowledge.
There is evidence all around us that supports every detail of the
LORD God's revelation to man. Indeed there must be, for his truth is
inerrant, his word is infallible. The Bible soundly and repeatedly
makes claims of inerrancy, infallibility and inspiration (Psalm 12:6,
Matt 5:18, 2Tim 3:16, 2Pet 1:21 et al.). This dissertation stands on
that assurance expecting that the common Christian be plunged into
the unsearchable riches of God's Word as well as true science. The
science that advances the LORD God's meticulous detail has only been
available in the past hundred years, yea, much in only the past
couple decades. Understanding some nuclear physics, black-holes,
imaginary dimensions, theories of relativity, and left over glacier
formations will empower a new faith in what God says. Ones mind is
herein to be exercised and stretched with some math and science that
does not get taught in Bible college or Seminary. It will be well
worth the effort. The leading edges of science are spellbinding to
the student who is holding God's inerrant, infallible, inspired
Scriptures in his right hand.
The philosophy of the wisest of philosophers, King Solomon, states
that man has an obligation to explore “all things that are
done
under heaven.” He calls such a responsibility a sore
travail.
“This sore travail hath God given to the son's of man to be
exercised therewith,” and that arduous, painful effort is
fully
described by Solomon, “I gave my heart to seek and search
out, by
wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven”
(Eccl
1:13). And again, “I have seen the travail, which God hath
given to
the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing
beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so
that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning
to the end” (Eccl 3:10-11). And Scriptures tell us also,
“The
secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which
are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may
do all the words of this law” (Deut 29:29). Let us then step
into
that arduous task for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
To Continue in this series click the link below:
1: The Creation Account
. . . 8
www.truthaboutthechrist.com/thetruthaboutthecreation/1creation_account.html
. . . Creation Out of Nothing. .
. 16
. . . Atomic Theory and
“Ex-Nihilo” Creation. . . 18
. . . The Hubble Telescope and
“Ex-Nihilo” Creation.
. . 23
. . . Creation Accounting
Conclusions. . .
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