There is no hope for a society where naturalistic evolution is the queen of the sciences, where everything has to answer to that. Students are supposed to be given values clarification by teachers who don’t have any moral standards. They’re supposed to be taught moral reasoning by people who don’t have any absolutes. And then they’re told they need to forge their life style…no authority, no sin, no fixed divine law, no shame, no guilt, no set consequences.
But there’s one thing in our society that they’re not relativistic about, do you know what it is? Evolution. That is the one dominating absolute in our society. If you say you don’t believe in evolution, you literally are viewed as a moron, somebody who doesn’t have all his marbles, somebody who is bereft of normal reasoning ability. There’s a sweeping relativity until it comes to the one fixed absolute that makes the relative system work and that is evolution. You see, if you come and say…”Well, you know, I don’t believe in evolution, I believe in divine creation by God,” the whole relativistic house of cards collapses cause you have to have randomness, free choice, free expression, you can’t have fixed absolutes, you can’t have the law giver and a law and a judge and all of that. So the one absolute that perseveres in the midst of this relativity is the absolute of evolution. That is they are absolutely convinced beyond any argument that everything that exists today is a result of chance and random processes. As one writer said, and I’ll never forget the statement, the universe as we know it is just one of those things that happens from time to time.
But contrary to all of that, theology is the queen of science. Theology is what is the most important realm of thought. Theology is the controlling element in all of human understanding. And an unwavering faith in the accuracy and truthfulness of the Bible is at the heart of all sound theology. And it starts with believing the Genesis account. That is critical to a Christian world view. As I told you a few weeks ago, the Master’s College participates in the Christian College Coalition, 110 Christian colleges of which five or six affirm the Genesis account. So we have a hundred Christian colleges that do not have a Christian world view. What is a Christian college? Well, I get exercised about that but let’s go to the text.
I’m trying to do two things in these messages, give you some…some rational thought, a little philosophical thought, some scientific stuff before we slide into the text, but let’s go to the text. Let’s look at day one. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was formless and void, desolate and uninhabited…remember, that’s what we told you that means…it was desolate and uninhabited, it hadn’t yet been shaped or inhabited by any living thing. And it was completely engulfed with darkness. The earth…it says…was covered with the deep, covered with the water…says the darkness was over the surface of the deep, which is an Old Testament word for the ocean, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.” So what you had, day one, is God creates time, space and matter. Those are the elements…time, space and matter. God creates them out of nothing. And you have this tohu and bohu, this unformed, unshaped and uninhabited mass of these elements. And this earth that He has..the elements are mixed perhaps like so much mud, as it were, not sorted out, and it’s covered with water completely and then surrounded by darkness.
And then on day one, verse 3, “God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” So God created light. “Saw the light that it was good, separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, the darkness He called night, and there was evening and there was morning, one day.”
So, on the first day God created the essential elements of time, space and matter. God then added light. He fixed the light/dark cycle in the permanent day/night continuum of 24 hours solar days. That’s why it says in verse 5 there was evening and there was morning. And somebody says, “Well, the sun hasn’t been created, or the moon.” That’s fine. God could still cycle the light any way He wanted until He attached that light to the heavenly bodies, which He does, as we’ll see later on. So, basically the first day the elements are created and they’re left in a shapeless and uninhabited form and surrounded by darkness and then light is created and there’s a mingling of light and darkness in the normal 24-hour cycle and that’s day one.
Let’s go to day two. God continued to shape those elements into a habitable environment for the life that He would create. And then God said in verse 6, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse and it was so. And God called the expanse heaven and there was evening and there was morning, a second day.”
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
