THE CREATION MODEL
Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” So creationism asserts that before there was anything of a physical or material nature, there was God, an eternal, all-powerful spiritual being, who spoke the world into existence over the course of six successive days. (See also Ps. 19:1; Rom. 1:20; Col. 1:16.)
THE REASONABLENESS OF GENESIS 1
- Does it make sense that a Supreme Being, far greater than creation itself, is responsible for the astonishing universe that we know? Or, does it make more sense that it all came from some microscopic speck?
- Does it make sense that one kind produces after its own kind? That is exactly what the Genesis 1 teaches (see vv. 12, 21, 24). Isn’t that what happens in real life and isn’t that what real science teaches, too?
RATIONAL QUESTIONS TO ASK
- Does a creation demand a creator? Does design demand a designer? A pencil is a very simple tool, yet all understand that it had a maker. What about the universe and all that is in it? Hebrews 3:4 says, “For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.”
- Can life come from non-life? Is that what we learn from real science? Or, does it make more sense that life came from an All-powerful, eternal God?
- Did the human mind come from mindlessness?
- What about the emotion of human love? From God, or from evolution?
- Where does morality come from? Can there be such a thing as morality if there is no moral law giver? If evolution is true, why do most people everywhere consider some things to simply be immoral? If human life is no more than matter that is alive, what is right and wrong? Who decides?
The Nuremberg Trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany following WWII as a part of the International Military Tribunal’s effort to prosecute crimes against humanity committed by Nazi’s. The defense of the Nazi’s on trial stated that the defendants had done nothing in violation of German law but only carried out the directives assigned to them.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, one of the prosecuting attorneys said this, “As an International Military Tribunal, it rises above the provincial and transient and seeks guidance not only from international law but also from the basic principles of jurisprudence which are assumptions of civilization and which have long found embodiment in the codes all of nations” [The Trial of German Major War Criminals (1946 b), Thursday, 4th July, 1946, (Vol. 18, Part 7 of 8). London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office].
The argument was that there was something higher than German law and higher than international law. It was a law that rose above the “provincial and transient.” The point is that the Nazi’s were not guilty of a violation of any nation’s system of law, but a law that transcends the laws of this world.
CONCLUSION
The word “all” in our question: “Where Did It All Come From,” is very significant. Where did all matter come from? Where did humanity come from? What about plant life? What about all of the celestial bodies? What about the things on a microscopic level? What about life, consciousness and morality?
Where did it all come from? Genesis 1:1 states, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Daren Schroeder
