THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
The God Who Has Revealed Himself in
Scripture
By Gary Ray Branscome
In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. // The
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and
Godhead;
(Genesis 1:1 // Romans
The God whom
we worship, the God who has revealed Himself to us through the pages of
Holy
Writ, is the Creator of heaven and earth! Moreover, far from being just
another
organism in the universe, the entire universe, the entire time-space
continuum
is His handy work. He is the God who in just six days, “made heaven and
earth,
the sea, and everything that is in them,” (Exodus
Furthermore, in the first chapters of
Genesis God has given us an exact record of His creation because He
does not
want us to be deceived by man made lies. His Word tells us exactly what
happened, and that is what He wants us to believe and teach. Moreover,
that is
how He wants to be identified. Therefore, those who reject what He has
revealed, those who replace His Word with man’s word, those who have
devised
for themselves another god, a god who grew up on another planet, or a
god who
used evolution (with all the death and suffering that entails) to
create life;
have invented their own religion and are worshipping a false god.
Of course they will not admit it. They
want us to believe that they are worshipping the same God that we
worship. However,
that is not true! When the children of
The invisible things of God
Because the God whom we worship is the
creator of both
time and space, time and space (both of which are invisible) were
designed by Him
to reveal facts about Him that are likewise invisible (Romans 1:20).
For
example, because our God fills the entire universe [i.e. “heaven and
earth,”
Jeremiah
If you find what I have just said hard to
follow, let
me explain it this way. For time to exist there must be a place where
time is
passing. If time is not passing anywhere, how can we say that it is
passing at
all? Likewise, if space existed without time there could be no movement
in it,
for movement takes time. And, if no movement was possible, how could we
call it
“space”? Just as the idea of space without movement is absurd, the idea
of time
that is not passing anywhere is equally absurd. Therefore, for time and
space
to exist at all, they must exist together.
Our God does not exist somewhere in space. On
the
contrary, time and space are His creations. He exists in another
dimension, a
spiritual dimension which transcends both space and time. And, because
His
existence transcends both space and time He is not limited by space and
time. For
that reason, whenever men try to bring God down to their own level they
wind up
trying to fit Him into the limitations of space and time. As a result,
they
wind up denying anything about Him that does not fit in with their own
limited
perspective of reality. And, that often includes the fact that He
exists as
both three and one. However, once we realize that He is not limited by
time and
space, it is not only perfectly reasonable to believe that He is
totally
different from those who are limited by space and time it would be
unreasonable
to expect it to be otherwise.
The Puny Mind of Man
The foolish men who try to explain
away God, those who deny the obvious evidence of His wisdom in the
design of
their own bodies, and deny that time had a beginning (Genesis 1:1)
assume that
if they could travel back into the past time would always be there. What they fail to see is that time must have
had a beginning point. If it did not have a beginning point we could
never have
arrived at this point in time.
If that idea is new to you, if you
think that time has always existed, you
might just assume that no matter how many “billions” or “trillions of
billions”
of years have passed before this point in time, the present is just
where we
are now in time. However, that idea assumes that time had a beginning
point
“billions” or “trillions of billions” of years ago. In reality, if time
has
truly existed from infinity, and you could somehow go back “billions”
and even
“trillions of billions” of years into the past, then the
amount of time that would be still further in
the past would still be infinite. And, if it was infinitely distant in
the
past, then it would take an infinite amount of time for the present to
reach this
point in time. And, an infinite amount of time means FOREVER.
It would take forever to reach this point in time!
And, that is why time must have had a beginning point. It had to start
somewhere! Otherwise the present could not exist.
Conclusion
The doctrine that God wants us to
believe and teach consists of what He says in His Word, not what men
think
about it. Every contrived explanation that men have devised to get
around what
is said in the first chapters of Genesis, or anywhere else in the
Bible, is
just as much man-made religion as the Koran or the book of Mormon.
While those
who deny the truth of Genesis (including what it says about the age of
the
earth) may accept much of what the Bible says, the fact that they
reject part
of it tells us that the Bible is not their authority. And, for that
reason,
they are not true disciples of Jesus Christ (John