In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing. (Genesis 1:1, 2:2, NIV 1984).
My Musings – In between, six “days” where “all things were made.” And not only that, but “all that he had made…was very good.” Literal 24-hour periods of our time, or some other measure of time from a timeless God, where “a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day,” (2 Peter 3:8, NIV 1984)? Wiser people than I will likely continue to debate this until Christ returns. I certainly don’t claim to know how God did what He did or how long He took to do it. Because I was not there “when [He] laid the earth’s foundation… [when He] marked off its dimensions.” (Job 38:4–5, NIV 1984). Neither were the people wiser than me.
But I do not know this – He did it. We are here, because in the beginning He who had no beginning (and will have no end) was already there. When “the heavens and the earth [and everything they contain] were completed in all their vast array.” (Genesis 2:1, NIV 1984). And even today, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” (Psalm 19:1–4, NIV 1984).
But, by and large, the world does not listen to “their voice.” Preferring to believe that we are here today due do some cosmic accident that happened billions of years ago and started a chain reaction that ultimately produced all that is. That this “vast array” beauty, wonder, design and intelligent life had no explicable cause or designer. That everything came from nothing, and order came from chaos without a creator or designer. “Surely [they] know, for [they] were already born! [They] have lived so many years!” (Job 38:21, NIV 1984).
My Advice – There is no cause without a causer. There is no design without a designer. “Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20, NIV 1984). Don’t let anyone convince you there is no God.
The Brew Is A Musing 