EVIDENCES - THE CREATOR AND HIS CREATION

Romans 11:33 states that God's judgments are unsearchable and that his ways are past finding out. Biblical scribes agree concerning the Creator. The preacher wrote in Ecclesiastes 12:1: "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth—." The prophet wrote in Isaiah 40:28 that "the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding." In 1 Peter 1:19 those who "suffer according to the will of God" must "commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator."

That God is the Creator underlies the admonitions and encouragments in these passages. This is a fact to be believed and has not, to this point in time, been satisfactorily explained to the majority population of the so-called scientific community. Paul challenged the thinking of the philosophers on the Areopagus in Acts 17:24. He reminded them that the God of whom he spoke "made the world and all things therein," this being the case "he is Lord of heaven and earth."

The foregoing is well known Bible to students who revere the Bible because it is "the word of God." There are those among us who appeal to the atheist and to the scientific minded (one does not necessarily imply the other). Their tact seems to be to approach the infidels on their level, with their view of things. God may be referred to as one of intelligent design. This brings to mind a radio campaign some years back. It was called "Heart Beat" or something rather ethereal like that. It was a work of liberal churches of Christ. Poetry and prose with a "spiritual" and "morally philosophical" flavor were aired. Scriptures were not used. The church was not mentioned.

We hear of a popular Bible School Program which purports to demolish the theory of evolution. Yet the program teaches that the six days of creation may not be so. An ancient age for the earth is taught, consistent with the evolutionist's time table. When Solomon, Isaiah, Paul and Peter referred to the Creator, and; when Mark and John the Revelator, along with the inspired quartet previously mentioned, referred to the creation, what did their hearers or readers understand? Did they think the creation was many years in the making? Surely they understood it from the perspective of Exodus 20:11 which states, "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day—." The seventh day which was the Sabbath day is not subject to interpretation with reference to time. It was a day as were the other six days. The context is the same. An indeterminate period of time, preceding the seventh day which an evening and morning and which God blessed and sanctified and upon which he rested, is not indicated in Genesis 1:31-2:3.