Monday May 15, 2023

On Purpose: God Brings Life Into the Universe [Genesis 1.3]

“God said…” followed by, “and it was so.” That is the pattern you find in the creation account. There is a lot of controversy about the days of creation because of these passages. A lot of interesting and difficult questions arise: How long did it actually take? (24 hrs? Years? Millions of Years? Billions of years?) Did God create everything with the appearance of age, or was everything young and grew quickly? Did God use theistic evolution? Is the creation account a literal story or a moral one? (and on and on it goes) However, I want you to notice that phrase again: “God said…” followed by, “and it was so.”

What we see there in that phrase reveals several things about God: He’s powerful enough to create; he wanted to create; and he did create…on purpose. Rather than trying to figure out the details of the creation account, it might be better to settle into what God is saying about himself in the creation account.

Also, how does it impact the rest of the Bible? Does it have meaning and purpose for you or humankind, in general? Listen to continue to explore one of the most famous accounts of all time: creation in Genesis.

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