No matter how you describe it, the origin of the first human being sounds to our modern minds very extraordinary, perhaps improbable to many, and, to some, even impossible. There is, however, nothing impossible or improbable about it if one is willing to embrace divine revelation and the account given in Genesis 1. But, if not, little recourse is left except the Darwinian hypothesis of biological evolution. But, evolution, to an increasing number of scientists, few of whom claim to be Christians, simply can’t stand the tests of scientific scrutiny. The evolution model creates more problems than it claims to solve.
Stephen Hawking, often acclaimed world-leading physicist, assured us that no God or Creator was called for in order to begin the universe. His reasoning was that the very existence of gravity made it possible for the universe to create itself quite out of nothing. The good doctor never mentioned how, why, or when gravity suddenly appeared to constitute the catalyst for the universe to commence. One is continually amazed to see the lengths men are willing to go in order to reduce the Creator to a non-player status or even relegate Him to no existence at all. No commentary upon on this nonsense could possibly top that offered by the psalmist in his 14th, “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” In our day, many of the fools are not content to say it in their heart. They publicize it with their tongue and pen as well, but we can’t concern ourselves any longer with the trivia offered by the fools of whatever stripe. We have much bigger cause to pursue.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Can’t get a bigger cause than that. The uncaused first cause, and what He caused…the heavens and the earth and all that is in them. Man, homo sapien, is described as the crowning achievement of God’s creation. According to the creation order, land and water were brought forth first and made to appear from nothing, followed by light and darkness, followed by all sorts of plant life, followed by the sun and moon, followed by marine and avian life, followed by all sorts of land animals. There commonality was in their all being created “ex nihilo”, out of nothing. All these accounted for the first five days of the creation week.
There is a progression of creative acts of God from the non-living material to the living biological forms and their many kinds. These all progressed to the final creative Day 6, described as God’s crowning creation when he appeared… man himself. And what makes him God’s crowning creation? He has something of God built into himself. He, of all God’s creatures, is made in the image and likeness of the very One who created him. This is different. Really different. Radically different. And so is his purpose and destiny.
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