Greetings, friends, family and partners.
This is Joe Watson and you're listening to the podcast, Choices We Believe.
Today you want to talk about creation because we all have questions about it.
Where did we come from? How did this get started? What's going on?
We can see through the universe and all the matter,
there's a beginning, it has a start.
And in the last episode I talked about how God is the uncaused cause.
And the reason I would say that is because God exists outside of time.
He exists in a different dimension and our existence is within linear time.
And this is an impact on all the arguments about creation and evolution and all that stuff.
So let's get started. Since I believe the Bible is true,
then how does creation fit into a six-day history,
history that we can observe?
There are many debates on a varying degrees of civility,
some of them get pretty hostile, that continue about creation or evolution.
Many creationists have attempted to come up with explanations about how millions of years' worth of earth history
can be neatly fit into the biblical narrative.
One such explanation says the ancient time periods that God calls a day was millions of our years.
Based on how we measure time in our existence, okay?
They call it time compression, saying that God's view and our view is opposite to each other.
He's looking top down and we're looking bottom up.
Kind of like a funnel that we're looking up through.
A million years for us was like a day to him.
And we're reading Genesis 1, 1 in the beginning, God.
Just that. Just stop right there. We'll say in the beginning, God.
So that says that God establishes God being in the beginning.
And that also means that he starts linear time.
From his spirit realm, which is parent to the physical realm, he started time.
And in doing so, he started time.
He started the ability for us humans to have science.
Science cannot exist outside of time.
In order to test something, there is an element of time.
When we initiate a test, even if it occurs in a nanosecond of time,
it's got to be in place. Time element has to be there.
With observation, there has to be something to observe.
Matter in some degree, whether gas fluid or solid, it must be.
It must exist. And time itself has to be an element.
Even time is measurable. Therefore, without time,
linear time is what I'm speaking of. The time space continuum
and something to measure. There's no testing.
There's no theory and no science. It is accepted that our universe and
everything that matters, all matter and what matters to us,
ha ha, had a beginning. So, since we all agree, there has to be
a beginning. The debate is what caused the start.
What? Where's the ignition? And that's what brings us to Genesis 1.1
in the beginning, God. God created the heavens and the earth,
and the earth was without form and empty, and darkness was on the face of the
deep, and the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.
I want to insert here that I'm Bible verses that I'm reading. I'm going to
be reading from King James, but my American lingo sometimes takes out the
TH and just puts an S. So, some of the words will be
sounding different from the regular King James, but they're derived from
the King James version of the Bible. Okay?
Just so everybody's on the same page, so to speak.
So, God created, he's the one responsible to started all of this.
And so, he's saying that the earth was without form,
and that there was water covering it. So, I've heard people talk about
that was the junction, the insertion, or the gap that dinosaurs had their own
existence separate from what we have today, and they put that element in there
and call it a gap, but I don't think so. I think it's just the way that it's
written, and it comes to us, and dinosaurs existed at the same time.
The humans and all the domestic and wild animals that we know today
coexisted at one point in earth's history. Oh, well, let's move on.
Verse 3, Genesis 1, 3 says, and God said,
Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw
the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the
darkness, and God called the light day, and he called
darkness night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day. Okay, here's a few observations.
The Bible says God said, and you know what? We can measure sound because it's
vibrations. He vibrated. What do you think about
string theory? That's an interesting theory, but it's a theory, and the premise
is that at the core of every atom is a vibrating string that holds the atom
nucleus together. That's an interesting thought.
Vibration holds us all together. Also, he created light with his words.
Light are vibrations that we can measure, and the different intensity of each
vibration produces a different color in the rainbow.
Another interesting fact, vibrations. We're all just a bunch of vibrations
being held together. Nonetheless, going forward,
God also talks about the first day being evening and morning.
God evidently divides the day at midday instead of the way we do it at midnight.
Of course, personally, I'm used to the midnight separation between one day to
another. I get to sleep through it, whereas the way God does it, we have to
work through it.
That's just kind of fun. Let's go on.
God says that he created and made everything,
and we are here. He's the one, if you want to put it,
he's the one guilty of starting it all.
Did he tell us every detail of what he did? No, he didn't. In fact, to the
business, when you read Genesis chapter one, you come to one conclusion, but it
starts over in chapter two, giving a different version of the same account
or the same events, which is also by all by itself. It's
interesting. God gave us two views of the same actions that he took.
One is a step by step, day by day order. The other,
not so much. It's more events and effects and that sort of thing. But anyway,
let's go. Too many of us humans are so arrogant when we can't get our heads
around the reality of God, then we reject him and draw our own
conclusions. Let me propose to you this. God made
everything just the way it's stated in Genesis, and while
he's doing it, he put in an age element in everything he created.
He created it, aged, matured. After all, when he created the man,
how old was he? He wasn't a baby. He was already an adult.
So there was age, a certain amount of age built in
the first day that the man walked and breathed on the earth.
Interesting thought, isn't it? Another thing is you can't use science to
prove or disprove the existence of God. How do you prove a spirit?
They move around too much. They'll get away from you before you can grab them
and test them. Nonetheless, Genesis 1 6 says, and God said,
let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters and let it divide
the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse and divided the waters
which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse.
And so it was God made atmosphere and seas or oceans. We'll get to that in a
second. And God called the expanse heavens and the
evening and the morning were the second day.
So God's measuring time. He's setting an example of how to have
how to measure time. And we today measure time from a rotation of the earth.
But we're not rotating yet, are we? So he's
showing us how he would start to measure time
based on what he created. And I believe he created
adding in the elements that we used to measure
backwards in time. But none of us were there personally. I
can't experience it because I can't go back in time and see what he did.
So this is his message to us. Genesis 1 9, God said, let the waters under the
heavens be gathered together in one place and let the dry land appear.
And so it was. God called the dry land earth and he called the gathering
together of the water seas. And God saw that it was good.
So everything that he created was good. Then verse 11 says, God said, let the
earth bring forth tender sprouts, the herb seeding
seed, and the fruit tree producing fruit from its
kind whose seed was in itself upon the earth and it was so.
So our vegetables, our herbs, our trees,
or all have within themselves seed that's used to reproduce the same
thing. You don't plant one seed and get a different kind of a plant.
So it's all reproduces itself. Then in verse 12, and the earth brought
forth tender sprouts, an herb yielding seed after its kind,
and the tree producing fruit after its kind,
whose seed was in itself. And God saw that it was good.
And it was an evening and a morning third day.
He did all that in the third day. But as we see in verse 14, God said, let there
be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night.
And let them be for signs, for seasons, for days, and for years.
Right here in this statement, the solar system
is produced. Our plant life was older than the space
universe, according to what we're reading here in Scripture.
But God put age into it. He'd flung out the stars and he said that it's for
signs and seasons, for days and years. Sounds like he's
establishing the measurement of time. Right here, the system of our time
is produced. And then in verse 15, he says, let them be for lights in the
expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.
And so it was. And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day
and the smaller light to rule the night and the stars
also. So in this one action, we have the sun
that generates its own power and but in a moon that reflects the power
generated by the sun. It's lesser. What an interesting phenomenon he did that.
Verse 17 says God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon
the earth and to rule over the day and the night and to divide between
the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good
in the evening and morning, the fourth day. So he's calling this four days long.
But none of us were there to use our own measurement to figure out how long
exactly that was. But is that the reality of what we want to
focus on? Or do we want to focus on the fact that he did it?
He did it. So let's look at day five and see what we can get into.
So in verse 20, it starts talking to us about day five.
God said, let the water swarm with swimmers or fish,
having a living soul and let birds fly in the air on the face of the
expanse of the heavens. And God created great sea animals in every living soul
that creeps with which the water swarmed after their kind and every
winged fowl after its kind. God saw that it was good.
So day five, he's put into the air, the birds, and into the oceans. We
call them oceans these days. Seas, all of the creatures that we
haven't even really discovered all once that we created. He just put a bunch
of them down there and they all get along with their way of life.
And we don't know anything about some of them. We've got, you know, we've seen
a lot, but I don't think we've discovered them all yet.
Maybe never. But God blessed them saying, be fruitful, multiply, fill the waters of
the seas and let the fowl multiply on the earth. And there was evening and morning
fifth day. On the fifth day, we see all the stuff that he did.
He also created, he brought forth the living creatures, the cattle, and the
creepers, and the beasts of the earth, all the animals that we know. And I
believe my choice is that he created the dinosaurs,
zinn, as well as all of the cattle and lions and tigers and all of that stuff
that we, all of the kinds of animals that we know.
So God made the beasts of the earth after its kind, the cattle after their
kind, and all the creeping things, whatever the creepers are,
oh that's creepy. And God saw that it was good.
So he's got all the animals created. He's created the earth, heavens,
he's established water, light, dark, plants, animals,
fish, the whole everything. But he's got his crowning jewel that he's about to do.
And in verse 26, God said, let us make man in our image after our
likeness. That's a very interesting way to put that,
since we believe in one God, but he's saying
us and our. So how do we know about this us and our what?
People talk about the triune God, but yet we still have one God.
So I was praying about this one day and I asked God, how,
how are you functioning three different ways as one in, he said, put up your
hand. So hold up your hand, look at it, wiggle your
fingers. Your fingers can move and operate independently,
but you only have one hand. And when you close
all of your fingers, you make a fist. And your fingers work in unison with
one accord. And God said, I'm three in one with the same purpose,
the same holiness, the same grace, and the same love for my creation.
I'm three in one to establish our relationship and me as God and you as
my people, person, those that are with me.
And it says that we are like him and our likeness
and in his image. And so he's established us. We are not God,
but we are like God. And that's important to remember.
And then he goes on in verse 26 and says, let them have dominion over the fish
and the sea, over the fowl of the heavens, over the
cattle and all the earth and all the creepers that are creeping on the
earth. That still gets me. That's fun. Verse 27, God created man in his image and
the image of God, he created him. He created them male and female.
So God created human mankind, both male and female.
Something that's important that we're going to look at. Adam and Eve
in the garden on the next episode of Choices We Believe. Thank you for
joining me.