Genesis was traditionally written by Moses, based on records passed down to him and preserved until the Hebrews were ready to document their past.
It starts remarkably for, regardless of how we lean on the controversies surrounding God and creation, the simple statements made in Genesis 1 are consistent with good science.
Although the notion of
a Big Bang is still under debate, Genesis certainly confirms that light was the
first manifestation of the start. That is consistent with a big explosion,
which it really wasn’t. It was a massive expansion of matter, where within a
blink, the four laws of all nature began.
John 1 sees the spiritual
perspective, saying, “In the beginning was the Word”.
Thus the real beginning was the separation of the Son and His delegation.
If God said, “Let
there be light”, it could imply to some that God 'made' the Son in the first act of
creation. That would mean that Jesus was not the sole agent of creation. Therein lies a
dilemma for young-earth thinkers who try to reconcile Genesis 1 to John 1.
Colossians 1:16
confirms that all things, including light, were made by Jesus and for Him. He is the author. It is
an important moment of separation, the first time a distinction in God appears.
It was not necessary to pre-creation bliss, but creation needed
three distinct roles.
Those roles involved
an aloof, objective, righteous Judge - as in the Father. He would judge the
works of the Son and validate His eventual sacrifice, as we see in the culmination
of His works in 1 Corinthians 15. As such, He validation each Genesis day with,
“I see it, and it is good”.
The Son was “slain
from the foundation” (Rev 3:8) to underwrite the creation. The Holy Spirit
assumed the third role as a faithful witness.
The three were
analogous to a board’s Chairman (the Father), Chief Executive (The Son) and
Secretary (The Spirit). Right from that outset God sets up laws and precepts to
ensure that the creation is principled and not some random expression of His
subjective whim.
The light of creation
was trapped in the dense singularity from which our universe expanded, as
confirmed by Hawking and Einstein. As it expanded the trapped light flooded the
universe.
The bible confirms in Job 9:8, Psalm 104:2, Isaiah 40:22, 42:5,
44:24, 48:13 and 51:13, that God stretched out the heavens or the universe
expanded.
From that initial
moment, the sequence of creation followed.
It elegantly consistent with macro
evolutionary models. I am not an advocate of micro evolution or species
evolution (as opposed to adaptation), but macro evolution is empirically
observable.
Thus the universe and
its fundamentals preceded everything. Then the “evening and morning were the
first day”, but that does not allude to a calendar day, as the sun and moon had
not yet appeared.
That does not support
the seven calendar day argument of neo-earthers. Rather, it marked the end of an
Einsteinian “event horizon” or what the bible calls, “a season”.
Separation of the earth
from the background matter of the universe is a logical next step and it set
the world at center stage. The fine tuning arguments of science confirm that
the position, orbit, tilt, rotation, size, mass and many other factors,
delicately poised the earth in space.
The odds on getting
that right exceed all the atoms in the universe.
Further separation happened,
as sea and land were distinguished. It implies condensation and cooling, which
allowed for shallow seas to emerge. That enabled the germination of organic life,
which implies that seeds of life were invested into the soil.
It points to an important
principle. As the grand chemist, architect and designer, every “seed was
according to its type”. It points to the algorithmic logic of the DNA code and
its power to ensure species specificity. It confirms that the egg preceded the
chicken.
Then came day and
night as cooling thinned the earth’s vapors to allow space to be viewed for the
first time. How the moon got there is still debated by science.
On the 5th
day God created the lower animal species, as in sea and bird life, both of which
had a stable environment and adequate resources.
Then came higher forms
of life – mammals, and the crowning glory of creation, man.
A mist watered the
earth, confirming its, as yet warm, neonatal state. God also “formed” man from the
clay, confirming that we are essentially just a lump of chemicals. But, He
distinguished us from all else, by “breathing His Spirit into us”.
That gave us a
conscience and made us sentient
The density of data is
awesome, yet so deceptively simple in its articulation. I find enough there, in
correlating it to science. It opens a world of mysteries that spawned many
books. More than enough to make a believer of me.
In making women, God
branched sideways, not upwards. She came from His side, confirming her as His
equal and complementary opposite. In so doing, He made them like Himself.
That final point harks
back to the seed, a DNA blueprint that carried the attributes of God Himself,
to us. It happened again when Jesus was conceived in Mary’s womb.
To all that, I say
wow. Amen, Glory to God. Unbelievable, yet so obviously real.
As such, Romans 1
confirms that “the invisible attributes of God are now clearly seen in what is
made, leaving us all without excuse”.
(c) Peter Missing @ www.4u2live.blogspot.com
