Questions about God: 7. Do you believe God made the world?
Do you believe God made the world?
The simple answer is ‘yes’, but let me explain why.
When you examine the Bible, reading it carefully, it gives great insight into the character of God, which is creative in a bigger way than we can ever imagine.
The media love to portray certain things as fact, like the age of the earth, for example, when actually they are merely protractions on the limited information available to us. These dates change from time to time depending on the latest information that has become available, thus reducing them to mere guesses. That is very different from ‘fact’. The problem arises because we believe them to be true, because of how they are portrayed in the newspapers and on TV.
The Bible’s first sentence tells us that God created the world. It is a truism that behind every creation is a creator. This stands whether it is the complex computer on which I am typing this book, the watch on my wrist, or the sprawled mix of colours my little grandson splatters on a page, that he calls a picture! They each have a creator. How then can we look at the world around us, whether an amazing sunset, a gushing waterfall, a tiny snowdrop, molecule or atom, or a gigantic galaxy of stars, and say there is no Creator behind it all? Are we really to conclude that it all happened by blind chance?
God spoke to nothing and created the world. He transformed nothing into something. He is the Creator and God of this universe and, therefore, deserves to be worshipped.
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