In the Beginning: From Creation to Covenant
Part 1
“God Made it All!”
Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
God created matter itself, living creatures of the sea and sky, and humankind.
Now, the word Genesis literally means, Beginnings.
This profound first book of the Bible shows the beginning of all things.
In its pages we find the beginning of:
–Light: the Apostle Paul writes that, “God commanded light to shine out of darkness”–2 Cor 4:6
–All living things, including mankind
–The first day and night
–The earthly atmosphere
–The appearance of dry land, God called ‘earth’
Chapter 1 gives us the chronological order of creation while chapter 2 is not concerned with chronology but primarily focuses on the creation of Man.
The chronological order of creation in chapter 1 is:
Day one–Light.
Day two–Air, Water.
Day three–Dry Land and Plants.
Day four–Lights.
Day five–Fowl, Fish.
Day six–Animals and Man
In short, everything we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell came into being when God created it.
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We’re also told the WAY God made it:
“God said, ‘Let there be…'”
This same phrase is used 9 times in the Genesis account of creation.
The command of God ‘Let there be’ is called the word of his power in Heb 1:3 and it was accomplished through his Son, Jesus, “by whom he made the worlds,” Heb 1:2
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We’re also informed that this creation of the cosmos was accomplished over a period of six successive days.
The word for ‘day’ in the Hebrew language is ‘yome’ and it means from sunrise to sunset, or more technically from sunset to sunset. It is a 24 hour period.
So the idea that the word ‘day’ could be a metaphor for thousands of years in order to accommodate the theory of evolution is not possible.
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In 1:11 we find the universal principle of all living things–that they will reproduce only “after their kind.”
Vs.11 “Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.”
The Hebrew language in which this was written is very clear. The word ‘KIND’ means SPECIES.
Everything God made that we would call animate or a living thing has within itself the seed to reproduce only within the boundaries of its own species–“Whose seed is in itself.”
Only an apple tree can produce an apple.
Only a sparrow can produce another sparrow.
A horse cannot produce a dog, nor a pig an alligator.
Nowhere do we find in scripture or in history one species producing an altogether different species, even over a period of millions of years, as evolution claims took place.
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While there are great varieties within species, they are still the same species.
For instance, there are around 11,032 different kinds of birds, but they are all still birds.
Diversity within a species reveals the dynamics of genetics within that species, but not once do we ever find a species successfully breaking the God-given rule of “after its kind.”
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This fact has been the achilles heel of evolutionary biologists, who have desperately searched for proof that one species can indeed evolve over time to give rise to a brand new species.
Because if the ‘after its kind’ principle is true, then God made it all and the theory of evolution falls apart.
The theory of evolution was launched by Charles Darwin in his book, “On the Origin of Species” published on November 24, 1859.
His book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of what he called ‘natural selection.’
Its worth noting that Darwin’s book has nothing to do with the origin of life, only the origin of species. It offers no explanation of the beginning of all things like Genesis does.
So the theory of evolution swings on the hinge of natural selection. To see how it works, imagine a population of beetles:
There is variation in traits.
For example, some beetles are green and some are brown.
There is differential reproduction.
Since the environment can’t support unlimited population growth, not all individuals get to reproduce to their full potential. In this example, green beetles tend to get eaten by birds and survive to reproduce less often than brown beetles do.
There is heredity.
The surviving beetles (more of which are brown) have offspring of the same color because this trait has a genetic basis.
End result:The more advantageous trait, brown coloration, which allows the beetle to have more offspring, becomes more common in the population. If this process continues, eventually, all individuals in the population will be brown.
Okay, but THEY’RE STILL BEETLES!
Natural selection has nothing to do with one species creating a whole new species. This is because God set boundaries in the very beginning that a species can only reproduce after its kind.
Evolutionists can talk all day about mutations, migration, genetic drift, etc. But the inescapable fact is that of the 1.05 million different kinds of insects, over 11,000 different birds, over 11,000 types of reptiles, and over 6,000 different mammals, they ALL reproduce after their own kind, within the boundaries of their own species!
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This is what the search for the infamous missing link is all about–the search for the transitional half ape/half man that proves the process of one thing (apes) evolving over time into something entirely new (man). But its never been found, though hoaxes have been hatched to attempt to fool us.
-In 1912, an amateur archaeologist named Charles Dawson claimed that he had discovered the “missing link” between early apes and man.
In February 1912, Dawson contacted Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum, stating he had found a section of a human-like skull in Pleistocene (ice age) gravel beds near Piltdown, East Sussex.
That summer, Dawson and Woodward purportedly discovered more bones and artifacts at the site, which they connected to the same individual. These finds included a jawbone, more skull fragments, a set of teeth, and primitive tools.
Woodward reconstructed the skull fragments and hypothesized that they belonged to a human ancestor from 500,000 years ago. The discovery was announced at a Geological Society meeting and was given the Latin name Eoanthropus dawsoni (“Dawson’s dawn-man”).
The questionable significance of this ‘Piltdown Man’ remained the subject of considerable controversy until it was conclusively exposed in 1953 as a fake.
It was found to have consisted of the altered jawbone and some of the teeth of an orangutan deliberately combined with the cranium of a fully developed, though small-brained, modern human.
The Piltdown hoax matters for two reasons: the attention it generated around the subject of human evolution, and the length of time – 41 years – that elapsed from its alleged initial discovery to its definitive exposure as a fake.
For 41 years the world was lied to about the missing link having been found. Bottom line, there is no missing link because a species can only reproduce after its kind!
Hence, life did not begin with some single-celled organism crawling out of some ancient sea to ultimately mutate to produce a new species of being that then over millions of years mutated to produce yet another species, and so on. Evolution simply can’t be true!
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And that is without even mentioning the problem of irreducible complexity.
Irreducible complexity describes the problem of some gradual, random process producing a living being with all its necessary parts over endless time.
For instance, the human eye is a very complex organ that depends on every one of its parts functioning at the same time in order to have sight.
How did the human eye develop over tens of thousands to millions of years if it needed all its parts–the iris, retina, optic nerve, and pupil in order to work?
Which came first, the pupil? But how did it come about without an iris to rest in? And the optic nerve needed a fully developed eye to operate.
In other words, you can’t build it by starting with a simpler version and slowly adding parts over time because, until all the parts are there (and put together properly) the system is non-functional and would never come about!
Even Darwin himself admitted, “To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances… could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.”
And again, “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”
In closing, the fact is: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth!”