Wednesday's Word: Elohim "Powerful God"

 

"In the beginning God, Elohim, created, by forming from nothing,
the heavens and the earth."
(Genesis 1:1)

The Joy Of Creation

Bill Bell

Image courtesy/Posterazzi

The manner in which the Book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt
that it is the revelation of God.

The creation account is historical truth.  The question is how was it given?  

An answer to this questions claims that the Jews obtained the account from the
records of other nations concerning the origin of the universe and that they altered it
according to their own religious ideas.  This is an impossibility.  The ancient heathen
nations considered God and the universe one and had absolutely no knowledge of
the existence of God independent from the universe, nor did they
 know anything of a creation of the world.

Here is something wholly different from all theories, mythologies,
and other inventions of the human race.

 How then was it given?   By revelation of God is the only answer.

No human being knew anything about the origin of the heavens and the earth.
Man cannot by searching find out God, nor can man discover how the earth was
created and all things came into existence.  How ridiculous the statements and
opinions on the creation of men called great thinkers, not to speak of the equally
foolish beliefs of the nations of the past.

But here is what God makes known, how He called all things into existence. 
He makes known that the universe is not eternal but that He created it. The
 whole account is of wonderful grandeur and yet of the greatest simplicity;
so simple that a child can read it and understand the truth, but so profound
that the greatest men have bowed before it.

It is not the purpose of this Bible study course to enter into details or we would
write at length on the evolution theory with its invented, "protoplasm". There are
many questions which the evolutionists cannot answer and many difficulties which
they cannot explain.  Their scientific assertions and speculations require one to
believe against reason, while God never expects us to believe what is contrary
 to reason.  It is far more simple to except God's revelation:

"By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the Word of God,
so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear."
(Hebrews 11:3)

This disposes of evolution and other theories of unbelieving men who reject God's Word.

The statement which one hears so often from sneering lips that the creation account
is unscientific has no foundation.  That it is non-scientific is an entirely different matter.

Galileo, the astronomer, truthfully said, "The Scriptures were given, not to tell us
 how the heavens go, but to teach us how to go to heaven."

An excerpt from Gaebelein's Annotated Bible/Commentaries