God Creates Life (MP 6)

God poured the water of life on the earth;
Plants of many kinds began to appear;
Bushes and trees that bear fruit made their birth;
Grass and weeds grew where the sun did not sear!
He created beasts, and birds of the air,
Fish and ferns that thrived in streams and the sea;
He made a Garden, beautifully fair,
Full of fruit, but with one forbidden Tree!
God looked o’er His work; “It’s good!” He declared;
From dust of the earth, He created Man;
He made Woman of Man’s rib, with Man paired—
Thus God on earth the human race began!
God bequeathed to Man an e’er-living Soul,
Which will be, though countless ages unfold!

Commentary On Creation
Some faithful Christians, when they hear or see the word “evolution”, "see red", and immediately conclude that the user cannot "believe the Bible". In their rush to judgment, they conclude he or she believes Darwin’s complete theory that life evolved from one cell, man descended from apes, and that chance alone resulted in creation of man. They make a “litmus test” of belief in the Bible to be a literal interpretation of Genesis Chapters 1 and 2, and close their minds to any other. Many consider science to be an evil enemy of God and advanced education to mark one who has been brainwashed to become a false teacher of the Christian faith. Drawing such unfounded conclusions about another is a sin, the sin of judging (See Matthew 7:1-2).

The Roman Catholic church committed the same sin in the 17th century by convicting Galileo (1564-1632) of heresy. Using a home-made telescope, he observed that the planets orbited the sun. Since Aristotle had declared the earth to be stationary, the center of the universe, with all heavenly bodies revolving about it, and Psalm 19:6 apparently confirming it, Galileo was convicted by Catholic leadership of heresy and forced to recant. He stated publicly that the earth did not revolve about the sun, but he was heard to mutter under his breath, “But it does.” He defended himself on the basis of, “The Bible teaches man how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.”

I do not intend to attempt to prove that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, not the 7 thousand that the Bible seems to say. Actually, some faith is essential for any person to believe in the existence of God, and that He created the universe, earth and man from nothing. But when you consider all that science has learned and proved to be true, it takes more faith and supposition to ascribe creation to chance than to a supreme intelligent being (as Albert Einstein said). The miracle of life is that man exists safely no place in the universe except planet earth. The chances that planet earth would receive so many seemingly impossible “lucky” influences to become habitable are so small as to be absolute zero, which glaringly points to God’s signature in its formation. And the process of “evolution”, theistic evolution, was a part of it. How man came to be---alive in flesh with an undying soul---is another miracle creation of God, even if evolution was employed by Him in the process.

I believe that God made the first man and woman, but I don’t believe He had to personally shape dust of the earth into a doll-like form; if He could command a void with nothing in it to make a universe with unimaginably vast numbers of heavenly bodies, He certainly could make man in His image without using His hands. The same outflow of energy that created all the world’s matter also instilled an undying soul in every human being. Yes, I said “undying”. The real “you” is your soul; it contains your memories, and it will live after your body returns to dust. God will give you a new undying body when He resurrects you at the end of time. Then where will you live? There are only two places, in heaven with God, or in hell with Satan and fallen angels. God already has His new body, for He was the first man to be resurrected.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)