Genesis Truth

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

Most Christians agree that God created the earth in which we live. It is the ‘how’ and ‘when’ that is often disputed. It is why we have sides for Creationism, Evolution, or Created Evolution. Which do you believe?

I was brought up to believe that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day. I was taught that God breathed the words and it was so and it was very good. I believe the history timeline of the bible to be accurate, true, and complete.

I have read books and watched videos that support what the bible says and I have read books that oppose it. I have learned through my search that it can be quite exhausting trying to support or oppose the Truth with theories or human reasoning. I think many others feel the same way, thus the reason why many Christians have adopted the ‘created evolution’ argument. It may for some just be easier to agree with both sides than to try to prove or disprove one or the other.

When I discovered in a former church that the Pastor there actually believed the world was millions of years old, I felt myself come unglued in the sense that both schools of thought could not possibly exist together. One had to be wrong and one had to be right. Convinced I was on the right side, I did some research on my own in hopes of disputing the opposite side.

According to the World Almanac and Statistical Abstract of the United States, 101.77 million US Christians do not believe in the complete inerrancy of the Genesis account and some actually embrace evolution as a Truth, as compared to 41.52 million professing inerrancy. I found my belief to be in the minority, which shocked me.

I really struggled with the fact that everything I was taught and believed about creation was not fully embraced by every other Christian as Truth. How could we all profess a belief in the same God, have a saving faith in Jesus Christ, and read the same bible but not believe the same Truths?

If I cannot trust the very first book of the bible to be true, accurate, and straightforward how can I possibly put any faith or trust in the remaining books of the bible? If I am led to believe that God slowly ‘evolved’ me into who I am today by chance, how can I believe that I was created in God’s image and for a specific purpose? If I am led to believe the Old Testament is a book of fables and stories made up to get a point across, how can I believe in a New Testament virgin birth and rising from the dead?

To believe anything other than what I had always believed, for me, would have led me away from the God I knew, not able to embrace Him as some might suggest. As I read supporting and opposing information, I realized I should not have to be a scientific scholar, botanist, astronomer, a zoologist, or literary professor to figure out the bible. God intended the bible to be Truth for all people, in all ages, in all stages of life. If I had to be all these things to understand the bible, I never would be ready to read it.

For me, I take the stance that the bible is true and without error just as it is written. I would not presume to be arrogant and speak to which I am not an authority on, and since none of us can know all the things of God this side of heaven, I prefer to take God at His word. When I reach heaven, He can fill me in on all the details. Until then, the important lesson may be in the faithful trust of God and not in us for understanding.

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Genesis 1:31