The AudioBook, Before Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1, Authored By David Abankwah Through The Inspiration Of God
Chapter 1
Main Heading: Who Is The Creator Of The Universe?
Bible Verse: Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse Numbers 25 and 26
And I Quote
“To whom then will you liken Me, or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One. LIFT UP YOUR EYES ON HIGH, AND SEE WHO HAS CREATED THESE THINGS, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing.
There are so many knowledges concerning the sources of creation. As far as we are human, we become adventurous, seeking to discover what has been hidden from our reach. Sometimes we develop knowledge we think they are real and factual. In fact, there are so many facts revolving around the world, but are they all true?
SubHeading, Truth And Fact
Truth and fact are two separate words, though they are closer in meaning. Truth is a fact that has been verified, and fact is a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred which sometimes can change.
Sometimes some facts are proved. Proofing is a testing process to acclaim that something is true, but truth itself is the ultimate end of all facts. There is nothing beyond truth. Truth is only one. Truth is a person, and His name is Jesus Christ.
Gathering the information of facts, one can be wrong. One can see a fact as white and can prove it; and another can also see as black and can also prove it. Here, facts sometimes can be the truth or can’t be. That has always been the tussle and hustle the world is going through.
Truth and fact are like the wisdom of God and the world. The wisdom of God is foolishness to the world, and the wisdom of the world too is foolishness before God.
SubHeading, Divine and Worldly Knowledge
We think we have knowledge that we can use to know what to do sometimes, but we refrain from asking ourselves where exactly is such knowledge coming from?
The knowledge of academics sometimes draws our attention from Godliness towards worldliness, from spirituality towards carnality. Instead of giving credit to God, we give it to nature!
There are two opposing forces in this world: God and Satan. Any knowledge that does not give glory or support the works of God is from the devil and humans are those who are victimised in the long run. We can be used by God or Satan when we avail ourselves 0in time. There is nothing like a neutral point. Stop deceiving yourself.
There are so many findings which are going on that do not give credit to God as the Creator. These principles have led to beliefs that have made many believers turn their back on God. Many Christians have become Atheists just because of these worldly facts that present themselves as pseudo-truths.
In Isaiah 40:25, God asks us a question concerning who is the real Creator. He demands to know from us where a Creator like Him is. This is because many people think there is something else that is the Creator of the universe or can be, since they don’t even believe God exists.
So, can any so-called creator stand up boldly and answer this question? Yet many theories concerning who the Creator of the universe is, has led to many beliefs in such diverse discoveries.
SubHeading, Beliefs In The Maker Of The Universe
There are so many beliefs as far as humanity is concerned. Belief in animate things, inanimate things, present life, afterlife, natural spirituality, and what have you. But the beliefs as far as this book is concerned narrowed down to the creator of the universe.
Though, there are many belief types such as intelligent design, thus, pseudoscientific view that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection, geocentrism, thus description of the cosmos where the earth is at the orbital centre of all celestial bodies, omphalos hypothesis, thus, the order for the world to be functional, God must have created a mature Earth with mountains and canyons, rock strata, trees with growth rings, and so on) and still to come, we will then limit ourselves to the two main beliefs in the Maker of the universe which includes: Creationism and Evolutionism.
Subheading, Creationists’ Belief Concerning The Maker Of The Universe
What Is Creationism?
Creationism is the religious belief that the universe and life originated ‘from specific acts of divine creation’ as opposed to the scientific conclusion that they came about through natural processes.
The first use of the term ‘creationist’ to describe a proponent of creationism is found in an 1856 letter of Charles Darwin describing those who objected on religious grounds to the then emerging science of evolution.
Creationism covers a spectrum of views including evolutionary creationism, a theological variant of theistic evolution which asserts that both evolutionary science and a belief in creation are true, but the term is commonly used for literal creationists who reject various aspects of science, and instead promote pseudoscientific beliefs.
The basis for many creationists’ beliefs is in interpreting the Old Testament, especially from the book of Genesis concerning the book of Christianity, thus the Bible.
1. The Genesis creation narrative, thus Genesis 1 to 2, describes how God brings the Universe into being in a series of creative acts over six days and places the first man and woman thus, Adam and Eve in a divine garden, thus the Garden of Eden. This story is the basis of Creationist cosmology and biology.
2. The Genesis flood narrative, thus, Genesis Chapter 6 to 9 tells how God destroys the world and all life through a great flood, saving representatives of each form of life by Noah’s ark. This forms the basis of Creationist geology, better known as flood geology.
A further important element is the interpretation of the Biblical chronology, the elaborate system of life-spans, generations; and other means by which the Bible measures the passage of events from the Creation Genesis Chapter 1, Verse1 to the Book of Daniel, the last biblical book in which it appears.
Recent decades have seen attempts to delink Creationism from the Bible and recast it as science: these include creation science and intelligent design. There are also non-Christian forms of Creationism, notably Islamic Creationism and Hindu Creationism.
Subheading, Diversities Of Creationism Belief
Several attempts have been made to categorise the different types of creationism and to create a taxonomy of creationists. Creationism covers a spectrum of beliefs which have been categorised into the general types listed below.
1. Literal Creationism: Literal creationists base their beliefs on a fundamentalist reading of religious texts, including the creation myths found in Genesis and the Quran. For young Earth creationists, these beliefs are based on a literalist interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative and rejection of the scientific theory of evolution.
Literalist creationists believe that evolution cannot adequately account for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on Earth. Pseudoscientific branches of creationism include creation science, flood geology, and intelligent design, as well as subsets of pseudoarchaeology, pseudohistory, and pseudolinguistics.
2. Young Earth Creationism: Young Earth creationists such as Ken Ham and Doug Phillips believe God created the Earth within the last ten thousand years, literally as described in the Genesis creation.
Most young Earth creationists believe the universe has a similar age to the Earth. A few people assign a much older age to the universe than to Earth. Creationist cosmologies give the universe an age consistent with the Ussher chronology and other young Earth time frames.
Other young Earth creationists believe that the Earth and the universe were created with the appearance of age, so that the world appears to be much older than it is, and that this appearance is what gives the geological findings and other methods of dating the Earth and the universe their much longer timelines.
3. Old Earth Creationism: Old Earth creationism holds that the physical universe was created by God, but that the creation event described in the Book of Genesis is to be taken figuratively.
This group generally believes that the age of the universe and the age of the Earth are as described by astronomers and geologists, but that details of modern evolutionary theory are questionable.
4. Gap Creationism: Gap creationism, also called ‘restoration creationism’, holds that life was recently created on a pre-existing old Earth. This version of creationism relies on a particular interpretation of Genesis Chapter 1, Verses 1 and 2.
It is considered that the words formless and void in fact denote waste and ruin, taking into account the original Hebrew and other places these words are used in the Old Testament. Genesis Chapter 1, Verses 1 and 2 is consequently translated:
Thus, the six days of creation, thus verse 3 onwards, start sometime after the Earth was ‘without form and void’. This allows an indefinite ‘gap’ of time to be inserted after the original creation of the universe, but prior to the creation according to Genesis, when present biological species and humanity were created.
Gap theorists can therefore agree with the scientific consensus regarding the age of the Earth and universe, while maintaining a literal interpretation of the biblical text.
Some gap creationists expand the basic version of creationism by proposing a ‘primordial creation’ of biological life within the ‘gap’ of time. This is thought to be, ‘the world that then was,’ mentioned in Second Peter Chapter 3, Verses 6 and 7.
And I Quote
By which the WORLD THAT THEN EXISTED perished, being flooded with water. BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Discoveries of fossils and archaeological ruins older than 10,000 years are generally ascribed to this ‘world that then was,’ which may also be associated with Lucifer’s rebellion.
These views became popular with publications of Hebrew Lexicons such as Strong’s Concordance and Bible commentaries such as the Scofield Reference Bible and The Companion Bible.
5. Day-Age Creationism: Day-age creationism states that the ‘six days’ of the Book of Genesis are not ordinary 24-hour days, but rather much longer periods, for instance, each ‘day’ could be the equivalent of millions, or billions of years of human time.
The physicist Gerald Schroeder is one such proponent of this view. This version of creationism often states that the Hebrew word ‘yôm,’ in the context of Genesis 1, can be properly interpreted as ‘age.’
Strictly speaking, day-age creationism is not so much a version of creationism as a hermeneutic option which may be combined with other versions of creationism such as progressive creationism.
6. Progressive Creationism: Progressive creationism holds that species have changed or evolved in a process continuously guided by God, with various ideas as to how the process operated, though it is generally taken that God directly intervened in the natural order at key moments in Earth history.
This view accepts most of modern physical science, including the age of the Earth, but rejects much of modern evolutionary biology or looks to it for evidence that evolution by natural selection alone is incorrect. Organizations such as Reasons to believe, founded by Hugh Ross, promote this version of creationism.
Progressive creationism can be held in conjunction with hermeneutic approaches to the Genesis creation narrative, such as the day-age creationism or framework, metaphorical, or poetic views.
7. Creation Science: Creation science, or initially scientific creationism, is a pseudoscience that emerged in the 1960s with proponents aiming to have young Earth creationist beliefs taught in school science classes as a counter to teaching of evolution. Common features of Creation science argument include:
1. Creationist cosmologies which accommodate a universe on the order of thousands of years old.
2. Criticism of radiometric dating through a technical argument about radio haloes.
3. Explanations for the fossil record as a record of the Genesis flood narrative.
4. Explanations for the present diversity because of pre-designed genetic variability and partially because of the rapid degradation of the perfect genomes God placed in ‘created kinds’ or ‘Baramin’ because of mutations.
Subheading, Evolutionists’ Belief Concerning The Maker Of The Universe
What Is Evolutionism?
Evolutionism or neo-creationism is a pseudoscientific movement which aims to restate creationism in terms more likely to be well received by the public, by policy makers, by educators and by the scientific community. It aims to re-frame the debate over the origins of life in non-religious terms and without appeals to scripture.
This comes in response to the 1987 ruling by the United States Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard that creationism is an inherently religious concept and that advocating it as correct or accurate in public-school curricula violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
One of the principal claims of neo-creationism propounds that ostensibly objective orthodox science, with a foundation in naturalism, is actually a dogmatically atheistic religion. Its proponents argue that the scientific method excludes certain explanations of phenomena, particularly where they point towards supernatural elements, thus effectively excluding religious insight from contributing to understanding the universe.
This leads to an open and often hostile opposition to what neo-creationists term ‘Darwinism,’ which they generally mean to refer to evolution, but which they may extend to include such concepts as abiogenesis, stellar evolution and the Big Bang theory.
Unlike their philosophical forebears, neo-creationists largely do not believe in many of the traditional cornerstones of creationism such as a young Earth, or in a dogmatically literal interpretation of the Bible.
Subheading, Cosmology
Cosmology is a branch of astronomy that involves the origin and evolution of the universe, from the Big bang to today and on into the future. According to NASA, thus, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the definition of cosmology is ‘the scientific study of the large-scale properties of the universe as a whole.’
Cosmologists puzzle over exotic concepts like string theory, dark matter and dark energy, and whether there is one universe or many, sometimes called the multiverse. While other aspects of astronomy deal with individual objects and phenomena or collections of objects, cosmology spans the entire universe from birth to death, with a wealth of mysteries at every stage.
Humanity’s understanding of the universe has developed significantly over time. In the ancient history of astronomy, Earth was regarded as the centre of all things, with planets and stars orbiting it.
In the 16th century, Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus suggested that Earth and the other planets in the solar system in fact orbited the sun, creating a profound shift in the understanding of the cosmos. In the late 17th century, Isaac Newton calculated how the forces between planets – specifically the gravitational forces – interacted.
The dawn of the 20th century brought further insights into comprehending the vast universe. Albert Einstein proposed the unification of space and time in his General Theory of Relativity. In the early 1900s, scientists were debating whether the Milky Way contained the entire universe within its span, or whether it was simply one of many collections of stars.
Edwin Hubble calculated the distance to a fuzzy, nebulous object in the sky and determined that it lay outside of the Milky Way, proving our galaxy to be a small drop in the enormous universe.
Using General Relativity to lay the framework, Hubble measured other galaxies and determined that they were rushing away from us, leading him to conclude that the universe was not static but expanding.
In recent decades, cosmologist Stephen Hawking determined that the universe itself is not infinite but has a definite size. However, it lacks a definite boundary. This is like Earth; although the planet is finite, a person travelling around it would never find the ‘end’ but would instead constantly circle the globe. Hawking also proposed that the universe would not continue on forever but would eventually end.
In all the study of cosmology, the big bang is thought of being the maker of the universe. Let us see what big bang is all about.
Subheading, The Big Bang
The big bang is one aspect of science specifically cosmology, that gives a clue concerning what came before the universe, where did the universe come, the order of how the universe came to being, how old is the universe and the future of the universe (in terms of whether it will end or not and how it will happen).
As a description of the origin of the universe, the Big Bang has significant bearing on religion and philosophy. As a result, it has become one of the liveliest areas in the discourse between science and religion. Some believe the Big Bang implies a creator, and some see its mention in their holy books, while others argue that Big Bang cosmology makes the notion of a creator superfluous.
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The model describes how the universe expanded from a very high-density and high-temperature state.
English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term ‘Big Bang’ during a 1949 BBC radio broadcast, saying: ‘These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past.’
The Big Bang theory explains a broad range of observed phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the CMB (cosmic microwave background), large scale structure, and Hubble’s Law.
The framework for the Big Bang model relies on Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity and on simplifying assumptions such as homogeneity and isotropy of space.
The governing equations were formulated by Alexander Friedmann, and similar solutions were worked on by Willem de Sitter. Since then, astrophysicists have incorporated observational and theoretical additions into the Big Bang model, and its parametrization as the Lambda-CDM model serves as the framework for current investigations of theoretical cosmology.
The Lambda-CDM model is the current ‘standard model’ of Big Bang cosmology, consensus is that it is the simplest model that can account for the various measurements and observations relevant to cosmology.
Physicists are undecided whether this means the universe began from a singularity, or that current knowledge is insufficient to describe the universe at that time. Detailed measurements of the expansion rate of the universe place the Big Bang at around 13.8 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe.
After the initial expansion, the universe cooled sufficiently to allow the formation of subatomic particles, and later simple atoms. Giant clouds of these primordial elements later coalesced through gravity in halos of dark matter, eventually forming the stars and galaxies visible today.
Since Georges Lemaître first noted in 1927 that an expanding universe could be traced back in time to an originating single point, scientists have built on his idea of cosmic expansion.
The scientific community was once divided between supporters of two different theories, the Big Bang and the Steady State theory, but a wide range of empirical evidence has strongly favoured the Big Bang which is now universally accepted.
In 1929, from analysis of galactic redshifts, Edwin Hubble concluded that galaxies are drifting apart; this is important observational evidence consistent with the hypothesis of an expanding universe.
In 1964, the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered, which was crucial evidence in favour of the Big Bang model, since that theory predicted the existence of background radiation throughout the universe before it was discovered.
More recently, measurements of the redshifts of supernovae indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, an observation attributed to dark energy’s existence. The known physical laws of nature can be used to calculate the characteristics of the universe in detail back in time to an initial state of extreme density and temperature.
Subheading, The Big Bang View About The Creator Of The Universe
The scientific approach called Big bang says that, ‘in the beginning of the universe, before the universe appeared, there was nothing and at some stage, there came the biggest Big bang ever: a tremendous explosion of energy, matter and of course light. There never was such an enormous explosion of light, either before or after this event.
In scientific terms, in the cosmology of Physics, the Big bang theory states that the universe appeared from nowhere as an extremely dense and hot state about 13.7 billion years ago. This is based on observations showing the expansion of space as showed by the Hubble red shift of distant galaxies taken together with principles of cosmology as discussed earlier on.
The theory continues to explain that, if one extrapolates these observations into the past, they show the universe exploded from a ‘gravitational singularity’ (the tiniest pinpoint of the most extreme density and temperature) as predicted by general relativity which contained all the matter and energy of the entire universe.
The big bang theory claims to be the Creator of the universe but what it can’t explain is ‘why’ or ‘where did it all come from?’
Subheading, The Big Bang View Concerning Before Genesis 1:1
Because of the enclosed and finite nature of the universe, we cannot see outside of our own universe. Space and time began with the big bang. While there are several speculations about the existence of other universes, there is no practical way to observe them, and as such there will be no evidence for or against them.
However, some researchers think concentric ring patterns in measurements of the cosmic microwave background are evidence of a universe that existed before our own was born in the Big bang.
Subheading, Biology
Biology is the natural science that involves the study of life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.
Modern biology is a vast field, composed of many branches. Despite the broad scope and the complexity of the science, there are certain unifying concepts that merge it into a single, coherent field. Biology recognises the cell as the basic unit of life, genes as the basic unit of heredity, and evolution as the engine that propels the creation of new species.
Living organisms are open systems that survive by transforming energy and decreasing their local entropy to maintain a stable and vital condition defined as homeostasis. See glossary of biology.
Sub-disciplines of biology are defined by the scale at which life is studied, the kinds of organisms studied, and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the rudimentary chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions among biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building-block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of tissues, organs, and organ systems; ecology examines how organisms interact in their environment; and evolutionary. Biology examines the processes that produced the diversity of life.
Subheading, Darwinism
Evolution is a scientific theory used by biologists. It explains how living things change over a long time, and how they have come to be the way they are.
Earth is ancient. By studying the layers of rock that make up Earth’s crust, scientists can find out about its past. This kind of research is called historical geology.
It is known that living things have changed over time, because their remains can be seen in the rocks. These remains are called ‘fossils.’ This proves that the animals and plants of today differ from those of long ago. The older the fossils, the bigger the differences from modern forms.
How has this come about? Evolution has taken place. That evolution has taken place is a fact, because it is overwhelmingly supported by many lines of evidence. Evolutionary questions are still being actively researched by biologists.
Comparison of DNA sequences allows organisms to be grouped by how similar their sequences are. In 2010, an analysis compared sequences to phylogenetic trees, and supported the idea of common descent. There is now ‘strong quantitative support, by a formal test,’ for the unity of life.
The theory of evolution is the basis of modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a well-known evolutionary biologist, has said: ‘Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.’
Although there were several natural historians in the 18th century who had some idea of evolution, the first well-formed ideas came in the 19th century. Three biologists are most important. They are:
1. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744–1829), a French biologist, claimed that animals changed according to natural laws. He said that ‘animals could pass on traits they had gained during their lifetime to their offspring, using inheritance.’
Today, his theory is known as Lamarckism. Its primary purpose is to explain adaptations by natural means. He proposed a tendency for organisms to become more complex, moving up a ladder of progress, plus use and disuse.
Lamarck’s idea was that a giraffe’s neck grew longer because it tried to reach higher up. This idea failed because it cannot be reconciled with heredity thus Mendel’s work. Mendel made his discoveries about half a century after Lamarck’s work.
2. Charles Darwin, thus from 1809 to 1882, wrote his on the Origin of Species in 1859. In this book, he put forward much evidence that evolution had occurred. He also proposed natural selection as the way evolution had taken place.
But Darwin did not understand about genetics and how traits were actually passed on. He could not accurately explain what made children look like their parents.
Nevertheless, Darwin’s explanation of evolution was fundamentally correct. In contrast to Lamarck, Darwin’s idea was that the giraffe’s neck became longer because those with longer necks survived better. These survivors passed their genes on, and in time the entire race got longer necks.
3. Gregor Mendel, An Austrian monk, from 1822 to 1884 bred plants. In the mid-19th century, he discovered how traits were passed on from one generation to the next.
He used peas for his experiments: some peas had white flowers and others had red ones. Some peas had green seeds and others had yellow seeds. Mendel used artificial pollination to breed the peas.
Darwin thought that the inheritance from both parents blended together. Mendel proved that the genes from the two parents stay separate, and may be passed on unchanged to later generations.
Mendel published his results in a journal that was not well known, and his discoveries were overlooked. Around 1900, his work was rediscovered. Genes are bits of information made of DNA which work like a set of instructions. A set of genes are in every living cell. Together, genes organise the way an egg develops into an adult.
With mammals, and many other living things, a copy of each gene comes from the father and another copy from the mother. Some living organisms, including some plants, only have one parent, so get all their genes from them. These genes produce the genetic differences which evolution acts on.
Subheading, Darwinism View About The Creator Of The Universe
The earth is about 4.54 billion years old. The earliest undisputed evidence of life on earth dates from at least 3.5 billion years ago, during the Eoarchean Era after a geological crust solidified following the earlier molten Hadean Eon.
All life on Earth shares a common ancestor known as the Last Universal Common Ancestor or LUCA, which lived approximately 3.5–3.8 billion years ago. A December 2017 report stated that 3.45 billion-year-old Australian rocks once contained microorganisms, the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth.
Nonetheless, this should not be assumed to be the first living organism on Earth; a study in 2015 found ‘remains of biotic life’ from 4.1 billion years ago in ancient rocks in Western Australia.
In July 2016, scientists reported identifying a set of 355 genes from the LUCA of all organisms living on Earth. More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct.
Estimates of Earth’s current species range from 10 to 14 million, of which about 1.9 million are estimated to have been named and 1.6 million documented in a central database to date. More recently, in May 2016, scientists reported that 1 trillion species are estimated to be on Earth currently with only one-thousandth of one percent described.
Conclusion
It is important to understand that there are essentially two competing schools of thought as to the origin of the earth and those who postulated them.
The first is creation and the second is evolution. Creation is based upon a doctrine from the Bible ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,’ Genesis 1, 1.
Evolution was popularized by the writing of a book by Charles Darwin called ‘Origin of the Species,’ however, Darwin was not the first propagandist for this ideology but Lamarck and Mendel also are part of this work. Those who adhere to the theory of evolution are called ‘evolutionists.’
Evolution must be believed by faith, for there is no written account, no eyewitness, and no viable proof that this theory is correct. It is based on suppositions and the humanistic evaluation concerning how things were created.
Those that believe in the biblical account of creation are called ‘Creationists.’ Therefore, the term ‘creationist’ refers to one who ascribes to the biblical truth that God created heaven and earth. It is said that a creationist is one that uses blind faith in order to believe that God created all that we call earth.
However, the truth is that the Bible gives an account that was recorded through handed-down facts, and those facts had then complied into what we now know as the book of Genesis. This creation ‘records’ have been preserved down through the ages.
Bible Verse: Isaiah Chapter 45, Verse 15
And I Quote
Truly You are GOD, WHO HIDE YOURSELF, O God of Israel, the Savior!
One major separator of those who believe in God or not is the truth, but not the fact that God is not seen. If only we can see Him then, many will believe because the world says that ‘seeing is believing.’
Even though we would love to see Him and believe, yet that will not be the case for others because even though the Israelites saw Jesus Christ, many especially those who knew much about Him still doubted and they are now expecting the first coming of the Messiah instead of His second coming.
No matter how much God proves Himself to us that He is the Maker of the Universe, some people will still doubt Him.
The very nature of God is that, the way He is, when He reveals Himself, no One can stand it. Like Moses, we want to see God before we believe in Him, but let us see the response God gives to us as we seem to follow in the footsteps of Moses.
Bible Verse: Exodus Chapter 33, Verse 20
And I Quote
But He said, YOU CANNOT SEE MY FACE; for NO MAN SHALL SEE ME, AND LIVE.
No mortal can see God and live. So, if we say we want to believe by seeing God, then we will all die. Rather, God has given us an alternative which is that we need to believe in Him even though we have not seen Him before. That is faith. Simply put: faith is believing without seeing.
Bible Verse: Hebrews 11, Verse 1
And I Quote
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
There is a special blessing for those who believe in God without seeing Him. Jesus Christ gave us this secret in John 20:29 as one of His disciples named Thomas was doubting because He hadn’t yet seen the resurrected Jesus Christ, the women and other disciples claimed they had seen.
Bible Verse: John 20, Verse 29
And I Quote
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.
Even those who know God must still believe that He exists because at times, situations of life and sufferings of Christianity can draw your faith from God. Anything faith leaves the scene, doubt fills in the gap.
Bible Verse: Hebrews 11, Verse 6
And I Quote
But without faith it is impossible to please him: FOR HE WHO COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
Furthermore, it is another thing not to believe in God. The Bible calls that state as foolishness and all those who don’t believe in God, are fools.
Bible Verse: Psalms Chapter 14, Verse 1
THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS HEART, “THERE IS NO GOD. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.
Initially, the person thinks he or she is wiser, but in the sight of God, that wisdom is the other way round. Be wise to believe in God rather than depending on your wisdom or the wisdom of the world.
God is not against the natural because if you are hungry, you don’t need to fast to stay strong but you need to eat to be strong. Likewise, God is not against science, but only if it tries to glorify itself more than Him. For no one can compete with God and no one can win as a rivalry of God.
Every artificial thing has someone who made it and we can’t credit the work of someone to other, because of copyright issues. Why can’t we also believe in God as the Creator of the universe since the proof is in Genesis 1, 1?
The only thing that does not have an inscription on is the universe. We see nothing such as made by God on the natural things God created, so the faith level for some people concerning this is not there. But whether you believe it or not, God is the Creator of the universe. Your belief or unbelief can’t change this truth.
The Creationist believes in order, design, and therefore an ultimate designer who is God. This view has been constantly borne out by the new discoveries of centuries of which the genome is just one. This intricate blueprint, that is unique to each human individual and indeed is the makeup of all living organisms, could not be formed by chance or accident.
Therefore, a creationist is one who trusts in the veracity of God as the Creator of the universe rather than primeval soup as the origin of life on earth.
All the discoveries we make as great academicians, leads to one person. And He is called Jesus Christ. If we ever think any other thing is the Creator of the universe, then it is Him.
David Abankwah 