The First Thing God Tells Us
The Bible's first sentence is about God and what He made. Before it says a word about sin, Israel, the cross, or heaven, it tells us that God is the Creator and that everything else is His creation. Every other doctrine stands on that line.
The doctrine of creation answers questions every person asks. Where did everything come from? Why is there something rather than nothing? Who am I, and what am I for? Scripture's answers are simple and deep. God made all things from nothing by His word. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit worked together. What He made was very good. He made it for His glory and His pleasure, and He crowned it with man, made in His image. Sin has marred it, and God will make it new.
This is not a side topic. When the apostles preached to people who did not know the Scriptures, they began with the living God who made heaven and earth (Acts 14:15; Acts 17:24). And the last book of the Bible calls every nation to worship him that made heaven, and earth (Revelation 14:7).
We believe God created in six literal days, as Genesis 1 and Exodus 20:11 say, and that the gap theory and evolution do not fit the text. That case is made in Evolution and Young Earth Creation, and the evidence of design in Creation and Design. This article teaches what Scripture says about the Creator, His work, and His purpose.
If God made you, who has the right to say what you are for?
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For Deeper Study
- The Genesis RecordAmazon Henry M. MorrisA verse-by-verse commentary on Genesis by the founder of the Institute for Creation Research, both scientific and devotional.
- Creation and Change: Genesis 1.1-2.4 in the Light of Changing Scientific ParadigmsAmazon Douglas F. KellyPresbyterian. A theological study of the creation week that defends creation from nothing in six days.
- Creation, Fall, Restoration: A Biblical Theology of CreationAmazon Andrew S. KulikovskyTraces creation from Genesis through the Fall to the new creation, and argues for a recent creation.
- Concerning the End for Which God Created the WorldAmazon Jonathan EdwardsCongregationalist and Calvinist, unlike this platform. The classic treatise on God's glory as the goal of creation; demanding but rewarding.
- Foxe's Book of MartyrsAmazon John FoxeThe classic Protestant record of those who died for the faith, from the early church to the English Reformation.
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Evolution and Young Earth Creation
God created the heavens, the earth, and all life in six literal days, and how we read Genesis shapes authority, the meaning of death, and the Gospel itself.
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