Weekly Sunday Sermon - Genesis and Creation

Hello! Today's Sunday School for me is about Genesis, specifically the story of how God created the world. This is a very simple story but there's a deeper meaning to it.

Everyone raised a Christian would know the story from a young age. But it has many other implications. 

One of the implications is that God created the world, so He existed before there was anything, and thus all gods made by human hands are false. Another question that is being rose up with the idea of God before creation is "then what created God?".

The answer to this question is that God is an everlasting Spirit that was never had a creation nor a creator. He is a creator but not a creation. Before creation, it was just God - there was not even darkness, nor time, nor space.

Another implication with God's creation is that God, thus, knows everything about His creation and How to handle it. This means the Bible, his Word, is all-true and enough for us. Still, human creators of things, though usually quite knowing or their creation, have mistakes, but God is perfect. As He created and saved us, we should trust in the Bible.

God also used a lot of wisdom in creation. By looking at the order of creation, :

Day 1: Light

Day 2: Sky

Day 3: Dry land, sea, plants

Day 4: Sun, Moon, Stars

Day 5: Sea creatures, flying creatures

Day 6: Land animals and humans

We can see tat God created the container (example: land) before the creature (example: land animal). But some scientific interpretations, especially by modern scientists, favor another viewpoint of creation: Evolution, which conflicts with the teachings of the Bible.

Acoording to evolution, life changes drastically over long periods of time. But it fails to explain how the first organisms really begin. The Bible's teaching attacks this viewpoint. But if there is a God, which is already proven in one of my older blogs, and then God creates the world, which is then 100% (even in other religions, basically all gods create), and if the creation contradicts evolution (which is quite likely), and evolution is just a theory, you should believe in the 100% rather than the, for example, 90% likelihood. 

That's all for today! 

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