When God Spoke, Things Happened, Still Does

When God Spoke, When God Speaks
Things Happen, 
Still Does
                                    

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From any number of sources on the internet, Bible scholars that start with Genesis, will tell us that the earth was created about 6000 years ago.  Some will say as much as 8000 years ago.


 I do not dispute or necessarily agree with that.  However, our best science and people of science says the Universe is about 13.5 billion years old and the earth about 4.5 billion years.  Similarly, I do not dispute that.  

However, This is most Believable

Suppose the Bible scholars are right, and they may just be correct.  What is easier to believe is that God is so very powerful, His word by itself is beyond creative, and He is far above genius in every aspect of everything imagined, known, and unknown to mankind.  

Therefore, God is so very powerful that He could have created the earth 6000 years ago just as the Bible says, the universe too or maybe a few thousands of years or just instantly before the Earth.

What most truly believable is this- God is so powerful, in His extreme power He could have created this earth 6000 years ago and made it all appear 13.5 billion years old... just as science tells us. 

God is all powerful in His imagination that He could make the Earth just as He wishes in the timeframe He desired just as it appears today.  He could have made it 6000 years ago or 13.5 billion years ago, I will not dispute or argue either.  

However, I truly believe Genesis and the rest of the Bible is the inspired Word of God, Powerful Words, Words such that God spoke and Bang, it happened... 6000 years or 13.5 Billions years ago, take your pick.

God said it- Bang! It happened.

All because He loves us! (John 3:16)

Thanks be to God.

  

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WHEN GOD SPEAKS, HIS WORD CREATES.  But, how long ago? 6000 years? 13.5 billion years.  Click the link for a thought on God's creative power you might not have considered.  You just have to remember, with God, His way is anyway in anything He wants it to be, especially when He speaks.
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Genesis 1:3  And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

<< Genesis 1:2Genesis 1:3Genesis 1:4 >>

This message is not to debate or argue for Genesis 1 or Creationism.  It is simply a statement on How Big God is.

It is interesting, Good Science, Excellent Science says the universe is 13.5 billion years old. The Bible covers about 6000 years. Now, in this message I will not argue either, because, 

I think God is so intelligent, so creative,

that He could have created the Universe, the whole universe in six days just as Genesis says, 6000 years ago and made it look like 13.5 billion years just to makes us humans gaze, geek, gawk, seek, and discover in awe of what He can do with His creative words as in "let there be light".

Even the best science of Big Bang Creationism testifies to the first element of creation, in the first three seconds of the 'Big Bang', there was visible light. And, that testifies to the Divine Inspiration of Genesis 1. Now most of us here reading this, believe that the Bible is Divinely Inspired, I just find it interesting that Creation Science testifies to what we believe.

God is so far beyond amazing everyday that I wonder why people think He is amazing. He loves us and what He does for us is out of that love and it happens every single day! God truly is so incredibly Reliable!  It is just what He does and He is not in trying to be amazing to us, because it is all done out of His love for us.

Why is it people are so self-centered they deny God and fail to see the Love everyday He has for us.  Everything is in its place, defined by God's Laws of Physics, and everything stays in its place each and every day.  All this science exists because God Loves us, wants us in Relationship with Him, yet people still deny Him.  How is it they deny yet love their life, the very life God gave them.  What is truly amazing is God's patience with us.  In His love for us, He continually waits for us to desire our Close Personal Relationship with Him, HE blesses us, and pours out His grace on us.

The Word of God is so Powerful just as is His Love and Patience.

Thanks be to God

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The conditions under which the Earth survives its existence is truly amazing.  We live in what "Creation Science" calls the "Goldilocks Zone".  The earth is not too hot, not to cold, gets just the right about of sunlight, just the right seasons for growing food, and many other conditions that are "just right" to keep  us alive.  The Gospels teach that God wants a Personal relationship with us.  It is amazing to consider that our Earthly conditions of our physical existence tells us the same.  Click the link below for a short thought on this and share as you are lead to do so.
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Publication  0197

"Your God is Too Small?"

"Your God is Too Small?"*1
                                       

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Genesis 1:1-5

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And theSpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3And God said , Let there be light: and there was light.4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
People often struggle with Genesis 1. 
This message concerns1-  how God created the universe, ... from nothing 2-  how  in the current world there is considerable 'intelligent' thought seemingly contrary to Genesis as to how the world was created,3-  how the differences can be seen in a compatiable manner.
In modern terms of people's discovery about creation much is proposed as known, and generally accepted:
1-  Most creation research scientists consider the world between 13.5 billion to 15 billion earth years old.  
2-  We have theories of evolution, especially those of Charles Darwin that mistakenly indicate the belief that we evolved from some sort of biological soup.  'Modern' Evolution theories have existed for about 150 years and the interesting part, there is still no physical scientific proof yet many high school and college books still teach this myth as 'fact'.  It clearly is convoluted myth.
3-  There is evidence and it is generally accepted by creation scientists that in a 50 million year period starting about 543 million years ago that most plant and animal groups (called phyla) came into being during what is called the Cambrian Period.  Fifty million years is entirely a far too short time span for evolution to have produced all the different plants and animals on the earth.
4-  There is so much more that could be said about the universe forming, the big bang theory, the creation of our body cells/DNA, and the development of the universe that science can define based on scientific principles.

With all that is 'known' about the universe, it would seem that when a person believes the Bible is the inspired word of God then the known confirmed science would have to be thrown out as meaningless words; but, if a person believes the science then the notion of the Bible being the inspired Truth and Word of God seems to be wrong.  The question is how do Christians connect Genesis 1 with clear, concise, and generally acceptable science that seems to indicate most differently.
The reality of the matter is that most people's idea of God is found in the words, "Your God is too Small" (*1).
When we expand our concept of God, His unbelievable intelligence, and and His infinite power we find new concepts as to what is scientifically discovered about the universe is perhaps not out of sync with Genesis 1.
Consider the phrase we hear often from the pulpits of the world, "God is all powerful".  This is undoubtedly true but is an understatement of the truth.  Consider this:  God is so powerful that He can do absolutely anything we could think of or discover but more than that, His Power, His Intelligence, His Abilities are infinitely beyond what we could ever think of. 
With that, we must expand our concept of God:From Genesis 1, we read the word 'day'.  What does 'day' really mean to God?  We must not confine or limit what God can do in terms of defining what a 'creation day' can be!  After all, God created time as we know it and a day on the earth is not the same amount of time as a day on any other planet!  We cannot limit God in our definitions of time!
Next consider Genesis 2:2- "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made ; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made ."
 We limit God in our minds if we confine him to creating the universe in six twenty-four hour periods.  Remember, He is "all powerful" totally beyond our ideas, concepts, and understanding.  I hope no one can argue with this:  "God is so powerful in His creativity, that He could have created this universe in any manner He chose to do."  If you cannot agree with that, then "Your God is too Small"!   But, He could also have created just as in Genesis and made it look like 13.5 billion years!  But, read on.....

The Essence Creation in Genesis1,2-
1-  God is All Powerful.2-  God is a God of Creativity -  
       and just by speaking He creates everything from nothing!3-  God is- God that can do anything in any manner He desires.
4-  Because God created us in His image and because we love what we create, so too He loves His creation, namely us.  In addition, we know God loves us from the scripture John 3:16.
5-  Since the beginning of time mankind has sought the desire to understand our creation.  It is no wonder that the redactors/writers of Genesis were inspired to put first and foremost the creation of the world as the first chapter in a manner that people could understand.
6-  Genesis is clearly and simply written for people to understand but that does not mean creation is/was simple.
Rather, the creation of the world was highly thought out by God and created in a manner for us to discover.   The most important discovery ever made is that as scientist discover more about the world, we see just how creative and powerful God truly is.  The more scientists discover, the more we understand, the more scientist understand, the more they know there is more and more to discover.
God's existing universe demonstrates infinitely endless creativity.  We can never know all there is to know about what has already been created.  That is just how powerful and creative God is!
7-  Finally,  Six days or 13.5 billion years?:
The beginnings and genealogies of the Old testament go back to about 4500 years ago.  Some would possibly argue that is about when time began, time that God created.  For this discussion let's say time began about 5000 years ago or 10,000 years ago if you prefer.  I will not argue with that because-

God is so absolutely unbelievably powerful, so inconceivably creative, so boundless in what He can do that He could have created the universe 5000 earth years ago, again exactly as in Genesis, and made it look like it was created 13.5 billion years ago and exactly how science views it today.  God is more than that powerful!  He has to be more powerful than what our puny little minds can think of!
 Even science today agrees with Genesis 1:3-
    "And God said , Let there be light: and there was light.".  
All theories of special relativity by Albert Einstein and discoveries of other scientist in the last 50 years indicate that the first visible part of creation was nothing less than light.  
Above all: Do not let your God be "too small"!
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God - Creation -  Jesus
The Bible in Genesis tells us that God's Word created the universe.  John 1:1-3 and John 1:14 tells us-

The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

2 He was with God in the beginning. 

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

It is clear from the Gospel of John that Jesus was 'in the Beginning', that He too is the creative force behind the world and "all things" were made by Him (vs 3), and He (Jesus) is the 'Light of the world' and He (Jesus) truly redeemed and bought back what He created by shedding His blood on the cross.
Do not put limits on what God is, who Jesus is, and what you think God and Jesus can do,
 "Trust God, Trust Jesus",
and most of allDon't let your God be "too small".
Thanks Be to Godlonnie

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*1-  "Your God is too Small" by John B. Phillips published 1952
The trouble with many of us today, writes J.B. Phillips, is that we have not found a God big enough for our modern needs. In varying degrees we suffer from a limited idea of God. Phillips exposes such inadequate conceptions of God as "Resident Policeman," "Grand Old Man," "Meek-and-Mild," and "Managing Director," and explores ways in which we can find a truly meaningful an...more
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34486.Your_God_is_Too_Small

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Publication  0184

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Far too often, people think to low in terms of who or what God is.  He is not a "resident policeman" or the "big guy with a flyswatter" ready to pounce when we sin.  God is beyond our descriptions with better things to do than blow a whistle or pounce.  I hope this message will expand your vision of the loving God.  Click the link below and if you like share on your fb page.
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