Title: God Created Everything (2)
Series: Genesis: In the Beginning
Text: Genesis 1:2-25
Author: Bob Ingle
Open your bibles to page one. We are continuing in Genesis 1 today. Last week, we plowed all the way thru verse 1. I promise we will get farther down the line today. Before we dive into our text, let me remind you of a few important things we said last week that helps frame our thinking and expectations:
1. Genesis is sufficient in what it says about creation, but it's not exhaustive.
You know what I find mind-boggling? If you were to count, there are only 630 words God uses to describe the origin of everything. It takes less than five minutes to read it. God doesn't tell us a lot about His creative process. He doesn't give us much information. You might call this the abridged version of creation. No doubt more happened than is explained here. No doubt, there is more that we want to know to understand, but God gives us everything we need to know in order to believe. For many of our questions, the Holy Spirit simply says, 'It's none of your concern. It's above your paygrade. You don't need to focus on that.' It's not wrong to ask questions and ponder, but we have to accept that there are answers to questions that God simply chose not to reveal to us in His Word.
Here's why I think God limited our knowledge and insight into how everything came into being. God is far more concerned about the purpose and destiny of His creation than the origin of it. In other words, God wants us to focus less on how we got here and more on why we are here, what we are to do, and where we are headed. You can't change how you got here; you had no say about that. But you can change where you're going; you do have some say about that. It's good to know where you came from but even better to know why you're here and where you are headed.
2. Genesis is not anti-science. Science and faith are not incompatible or irreconcilable.
Genesis is not ...
Series: Genesis: In the Beginning
Text: Genesis 1:2-25
Author: Bob Ingle
Open your bibles to page one. We are continuing in Genesis 1 today. Last week, we plowed all the way thru verse 1. I promise we will get farther down the line today. Before we dive into our text, let me remind you of a few important things we said last week that helps frame our thinking and expectations:
1. Genesis is sufficient in what it says about creation, but it's not exhaustive.
You know what I find mind-boggling? If you were to count, there are only 630 words God uses to describe the origin of everything. It takes less than five minutes to read it. God doesn't tell us a lot about His creative process. He doesn't give us much information. You might call this the abridged version of creation. No doubt more happened than is explained here. No doubt, there is more that we want to know to understand, but God gives us everything we need to know in order to believe. For many of our questions, the Holy Spirit simply says, 'It's none of your concern. It's above your paygrade. You don't need to focus on that.' It's not wrong to ask questions and ponder, but we have to accept that there are answers to questions that God simply chose not to reveal to us in His Word.
Here's why I think God limited our knowledge and insight into how everything came into being. God is far more concerned about the purpose and destiny of His creation than the origin of it. In other words, God wants us to focus less on how we got here and more on why we are here, what we are to do, and where we are headed. You can't change how you got here; you had no say about that. But you can change where you're going; you do have some say about that. It's good to know where you came from but even better to know why you're here and where you are headed.
2. Genesis is not anti-science. Science and faith are not incompatible or irreconcilable.
Genesis is not ...
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