Genesis? Yes!

Genesis?! Yes!!!

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

There are two predominant renditions of our origins:

• Origin account #1: A ‘quantum fluctuation resulting in ‘The Big Bang’ 15 billion years ago … … … supposedly ‘naturalistic’ …
• Origin account #2: The Biblical account: Genesis 1 …

Only one of the two can be true … there can be no ‘fusion’. 

This ‘Back to School’ message will equip you to give a ‘defense’:

• … always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you … I Peter 3:15

 If we can’t believe the Bible for ‘earthly’/verifiable matters, why should we believe it for heavenly/unverifiable matters?

• Jesus said, “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” John 3:12 

Why should we believe in Genesis/Biblical creation?

• The evidence of DESIGN!
• DNA …
• Proteins …
• Birds … birdhouses … houses … mankind …
• The ‘cause’ is always greater than the ‘effect’ …

~ For every house is built by someone, but He Who built all things is God.” Hebrews 3:4

• The Arctic Woolly-bear Caterpillar …
• Copying divine design: ‘Invention mimicry’:
• The cocklebur and Velcro …
• Owls and computer fans …
• Timber beetle larvae and chain saws …
• The ‘witness’ of stones/fossils:
• Jesus said, “I tell you that if these (the multitude) should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” Luke 19:40
• The Cambrian ‘explosion’ …
• Carbon-14 atoms in diamonds …
• Soft tissue – blood vessels, red blood cells, ligaments, muscle tissue – in dinosaur remains!
• The witness of Jesus Christ Himself!
• Matthew 19:4 …
• Matthew 24:37-38

 It is impossible to have a complete Biblical worldview without believing in the Genesis account of creation. But by embracing Genesis, the rest of the Bible, along with Jesus Christ and the gospel, comes into focus!