Authenticity of creation

Evan Roberts
Aug 26, 2017 · 3 min read
Weyland Swart

Man, was made in God’s image. Right? No way! Earth is way to old for us to start taking an old book seriously….

“… the earth is older than 5,000 years. I can prove it!” let me show you the layers of sediment, or the reserves of oil, even the layers of ice tell the passing of time. The time for each ring on a tree or layer of sediment can be measured in time.

1 layer takes x number of years.

Caculated

x layers of sedimen…. times by time for one layer to settle = age of landscape

Some have enough layers to add up to hundreds of thousands if not millions of years! Therefore, if we calculate this accross all the natural geo elements of earth, we can start calculating figures for the age of earth.

Christians, especially where I am from in Europe. have erred on the side of God creating evolution.

If we do this we err away from the character of the creator. Let me explain.

When Jesus quotes Noah, Richard Dawkins would argue, he quotes it as factual. So a interpretative approach makes Jesus life, words and ministry interpretative. Not factual. Perhaps even his existence.

God is creative, he spoke everything into being. Much like an artist creates a movie without any prexisting factors. The ideas come from thin air.

Characters are formed mid-life. Almost never in infancy. Opening shots are not of the child escaping from the womb. They are often middle age shots.

We will never know which pre-school Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) went to before she stepped foot on the Titanic. But that does not put us off from believing the characters as real.

Our mind/soul and beliefs do not need pre-existing variables. We believe the present.

God is an artist, like our human minds can make things in suspense, God can make earth in an instant in accelerated time with the hallmarks of authenticity.

If God were to make a mountain, would he make the first layers with no layers? Would this not be bad workmanship? Is not the age of creation part of its beauty? As much as trees without rings would be a sad sight. So earths age is its beauty.

God is an artist at its best. Not only has he programmed a being (man) who is able to make beautiful art. But even in the most concrete of all jungles, one simply has to look up to see a canvas of beauty. Which we label gases, and esoteric forms.

Imagine Adam and Eve walking around barefoot. Now imagine they are walking on the molten lava of earth, as the layers of crust have not yet formed. Feeling hot? Were they made as babies or fully formed?

We know they were fully formed at creation. God made Eve overnight in the creation story.

God is also known to raise bones in seconds. He made the dead bones rise in instants with the words of a prophetic. Now amplify this power by God.

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