This is a very scientific statement. This statement deals with the ‘Law of Cause and Effect, or the Law of Causality’. For example, if I drop a ball, the ball will fall and hit the ground. The effect is the ball falling and hitting the ground. What was the cause? What caused the ball to fall? It was gravity, so gravity is the cause. Now, what caused or made gravity? How did gravity get here? Eventually we need to start with what we call a ‘first cause’, something or someone that had to make and/or create everything.
What is this first cause according to some scientists?
Discover magazine April 2002 tells us that the ‘first cause’ was evolution.
‘The universe burst into something from absolutely nothing-zero, nada. And as it got bigger, it became filled with even more stuff that came from absolutely nowhere. How is that possible? Ask Alan Guth. His theory of inflation helps explain everything.’
In other words: Nothing did something to nothing to make everything. For evolution, nothing is the first cause. But nothing has no intelligence, no power, and no presence. This idea of something coming from nothing violates the ‘First Law of Thermodynamics’, which states that matter and energy can neither create nor destroy itself. Evolution violates science!
Back to Genesis:
Genesis 1:1 ‘In the beginning God…
In Scripture, God becomes the first cause. God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. A being with these attributes would have no problem creating things out of nothing.
Another question arises: is there an opposite of God? Some people think Satan is the opposite of God. I do not think so. I believe nothing is the opposite of God. God has all knowledge, power, and presence, and nothing has nothing! As we discussed earlier, science, creation, and God go together. So I believe the opposite of God, science, and creation is nothing, pseudo-science, and evolution.
I was taught in high school and college the motto for evolution is “The present is the key to the past.” But in Scripture, “the past is the key to the present.” This means Genesis and creation are relevant for today. To understand the world around us, we need to understand Genesis and creation.
This brings us back again to Genesis Chapter One.
Day one or the first day of creation starts on Genesis 1:1.
Genesis 1:1a, In the beginning God…
The word “beginning” is a reference to time. God created time, so this means that God is outside of time. He does not function in time like we do. Some people do not understand this concept so they tend to misinterpret II Peter 3:8.
People who believe that the days in Genesis chapter one are not literal days, will use this verse to try and prove their point. A closer examination of this verse, and a better understanding of Genesis, will reveal this verse actually supports the literal days in Genesis… as we will see.
This verse states “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years.” “There you have it,” they will say, “one day is equal to a thousand years.” But do not stop reading there. As we continue to read, “a thousand years as one day.” God is a God of order, so His Word is also a book of order. So using their reasoning, every time we read one day it really means a thousand years, and every time we read a thousand years it really means one day. Well, Adam lived to be 930 years old, that means he was just 70 years short of being a thousand years old. So Adam did not quite live a thousand years , but a thousand years is really only a day. Using their logic, this means Adam did not quite live to be one day old. So he was created, named the animals, named the woman, married the woman, and had sons and daughters all in less than one day! This does not make any sense! What they missed is this: “to the Lord” II Peter 3:8.
As we read in Genesis 1:1a, God is outside of time, so to Him a day is the same as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. For us, since we are created in time, a day is a day and a thousand years is a thousand years. Returning to II Peter 3:8, the day in this verse literally means one day and the thousand years literally means a thousand years. The words mean what they say or the whole concept of the verse has no meaning. In good Biblical interpretation, we must always look first at the context. The context of II Peter is about God’s future judgment on a wicked world. It has nothing to do with creation or the days in Genesis chapter one. Peter is telling us since God is outside of time, He will judge mankind when He wants to and not when we think He should. Because people take verses out of context, they make big theological mistakes.
Please join me again next time, as we continue in Genesis chapter 1.
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