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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, May 7, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Creation of the World [1] Bible Verse:Genesis 1:1-10 (ESV) "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. " Message:
Smart scientists realize that they have no argument with the Biblical account of creation, and smart theologians realize that they have no argument with scientific accounts of the creation of the universe. The Catholic Church recognizes this; in 2011, Pope Benedict stated openly that the “Big Bang Theory” is consistent with the Bible. Scientists have a much more precise language to describe the events and thus give us a more detailed account of “what”, but they are ultimately helpless to explain “why”.
Genesis, on the other hand, is an account given by God to an ancient, illiterate people. They had no language to describe what happened and the “what” of Genesis is broadly descriptive in terms people could understand. For example, it uses the term “day” to divide the periods of creation; this means something other than a 24-hour period. The passage is a poetic account of actual facts.
But within its literary form, Genesis gives an accurate account of not simply what happened, but more importantly, “why”, a question science does not pretend to understand, much less answer.
The most important part of the creation is the first sentence: “In the beginning, God created . . . .” God had to have existed before the creation of the universe, because He caused it. He made it happen; it was not a random, inexplicable accident.
Genesis 1 meshes nicely with the scientific theory of a “big bang.” Scientists currently believe that a tiny bit of matter exploded about 14 billion years ago. This explanation — that God created the universe out of something that already existed — also seems consistent with John 1:1, that God was the intelligence that formed the universe, without mentioning whether or not He simultaneously created the matter from which it was formed.
Certainly, God might have created matter and energy, either as part of the account in Genesis, or previous to it; it would seem logical or even necessary to us that He did this, but logic is not truth. The important point is that the Bible does not tell us. There could have been universes before ours!
The important point, however, for both the scientist and the Christian, is not to get bogged down in finding discrepancies between scientific and Biblical accounts of the creation; for the discrepancies are an illusion. Scientists are fools if they reject Genesis, for it answers questions they do not have a clue about; and Christians are unwise to reject science out-of-hand, for it reflects the brain God gave us and His will that we be able to explore the world around us.
Meditation : Prayer : May the word I have read, Lord, be planted deeply in my mind and heart. Help me not to walk away and forget it, but to meditate on it and obey it and so build my life on the rock of your truth........Amen |
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