BRINGING ORDER TO CHAOS (3)
Scripture: Genesis 1:1-31
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Bringing Order to Chaos (3)
Series: Genesis
Robert Dawson
Genesis 1
A doctor, engineer and politician were arguing over whose profession was older. The doctor said, ''Well, without a physician mankind could not have survived. So, my profession is the oldest.'' The engineer quickly responded, ''Not so fast. Before life began there was complete chaos. It took an engineer to bring order to the chaos. Engineering is older.'' ''But'' retorted the politician, ''who created the chaos?''
In Genesis 1.1 we find that God created everything. The heavens and the earth. As we move into verse 2, we find that the ''earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' There was an evening, and there was a morning, one day.''
• When God first spoke creation into existence, in its infant form, it was formless, the features of the earth had yet to appear. The earths' form was dark, empty, watery, uninhabited and uninhabitable.
• It was like a potter with a fresh lump of clay, good clay, but the clay was not yet what it would be. It was unfinished.
From this featureless, dark, empty, watery and uninhabited and uninhabitable creation would come beauty, order, design and life. The question is, how did it occur? How did God bring it about? The answers to these questions find little consensus within evangelicalism. There is no overwhelming agreement among Bible scholars, theologians, Bible teachers and preachers.
About 215 years ago, after almost 1800 years, the church's approach to these first chapters of Genesis, especially the first chapter and its opening verses, changed dramatically. What happened that brought about this change?
I could point to Charles Darwin's work, On the Origins of Spe ...
Series: Genesis
Robert Dawson
Genesis 1
A doctor, engineer and politician were arguing over whose profession was older. The doctor said, ''Well, without a physician mankind could not have survived. So, my profession is the oldest.'' The engineer quickly responded, ''Not so fast. Before life began there was complete chaos. It took an engineer to bring order to the chaos. Engineering is older.'' ''But'' retorted the politician, ''who created the chaos?''
In Genesis 1.1 we find that God created everything. The heavens and the earth. As we move into verse 2, we find that the ''earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' There was an evening, and there was a morning, one day.''
• When God first spoke creation into existence, in its infant form, it was formless, the features of the earth had yet to appear. The earths' form was dark, empty, watery, uninhabited and uninhabitable.
• It was like a potter with a fresh lump of clay, good clay, but the clay was not yet what it would be. It was unfinished.
From this featureless, dark, empty, watery and uninhabited and uninhabitable creation would come beauty, order, design and life. The question is, how did it occur? How did God bring it about? The answers to these questions find little consensus within evangelicalism. There is no overwhelming agreement among Bible scholars, theologians, Bible teachers and preachers.
About 215 years ago, after almost 1800 years, the church's approach to these first chapters of Genesis, especially the first chapter and its opening verses, changed dramatically. What happened that brought about this change?
I could point to Charles Darwin's work, On the Origins of Spe ...
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