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God Is The Creator: Part 3

10/16/2020

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · God Is The Creator: Part 3
That creation has a beginning, and an end is the testimony of Scripture.  The Hebrew term b’rêshîth or beginning in Genesis 1:1 refers to an absolute beginning.  The translators of the Septuagint understood this when they translated b’rêshîth as en archē, which also refers to an absolute beginning.  Therefore, time, space, matter, energy, ultimately the universe all had an absolute beginning.

Time’s beginning is established on the first day of creation. 

  • God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. - Genesis 1:5

The Hebrew term translated as a day is yōm.  Yōm refers to a literal, twenty-four hour cycle.   During the first twenty-four-hour cycle of creation, God separated the darkness and the light into evening and morning.  This twenty-four-hour cycle, divided between evening and morning, continued throughout the next five days and continues even into the present.  

Along with time, God created space and matter.

  • Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,          - Isaiah 42:5
  • For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), I am the Lord, and there is none else. - Isaiah 45:18

All things, both visible and invisible, within the realm of space and matter, were created by God. 

  • In whose hand are the depths of the earth, The peaks of the mountains are His also. The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land. - Psalm 95:4-5
  • The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth… He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; - Acts 17-24a-25b
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God Is The Creator - Part 2

10/16/2020

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · God Is The Creator: Part 2
Genesis 1:3 states, “and God said.” The verb said (‘amar) is in the jussive mood, which means that God did not simply speak creation into existence, He commanded it. 

  • For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. - Psalm 33:9
  • Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light! Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens!  Let them praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created. - Psalm 148:2-5

Thus, God created by command or divine fiat (ex verbum deo).  Furthermore, what He commanded into existence, was not made from previously existing matter.

  • By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. - Hebrews 11:3
  
This is underscored by the Hebrew term bārā’ translated as created in Genesis 1:1.  The term bārā’  means to produce something which never existed before.  

What did God command into existence?  God commanded all things into existence, including time, space and matter.  Time, space, and matter are not eternal.  First, Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity demonstrates that time cannot exist independently of matter and energy.  Second, the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the amount of energy in the universe is running out.  Since time cannot exist independent of matter and energy and the amount of energy in the universe is running out, then time and matter would be running out as well.    If time, matter, and energy are running out, they will come to an end.  Also, if the universe is losing said time, matter, and energy, it too will come to an end.   If these have an end, then they had a beginning and are not eternal.  
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God Is the Creator: Part 1

10/14/2020

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · God Is The Creator - Part 1
Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God, created the heavens and the earth.”  From the opening statement of Scripture, God reveals Himself as Creator.  It is this very revelation of God, which evolutionist seek to rid themselves.  Herbert Spencer, one of the originators of the theory of evolution, vehemently denied God as the source of Creation.  In his book, First Principles, he argues that five things are necessary for creation: Time, Force, Action, Space, and Matter.  

Here is an excellent example of God using the mysteries of creation to disgrace the philosophers of the world (cf. 1 Corinthians 1:27).  While Mr. Spencer sought to undermine the validity of creation theology, he unwittingly underscored the very truth of creation theology as revealed in Genesis 1:1.  God says, “In the beginning” (TIME) “God” (FORCE) “created” (ACTION) “the heavens” (SPACE) “and the earth” (MATTER).  God is the force or energy, which performed the creating action.  God spoke, and it happened.  

  • And God said... - Genesis 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26 
  • By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.         - Psalm 33:6

The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can be transferred, but it cannot be created or destroyed.  In other words, energy cannot be created from nothing; it must be transferred from another source.  As we have set forth, God is eternal and self-sufficient.  Therefore, He is uncaused and the First Cause in creation.  

The energy in the universe originated from God.  On the first day of creation, God said, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:4).  Light is energy (it is one form of electromagnetic energy).  When God said, “Let there be light,” God did not create light or energy, but transferred energy from His own essence. 
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  •  … God is Light… - 1 John 1:5b
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God Is the Creator

6/14/2020

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Trinity Bible Church · God Is The Creator
  • In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Genesis 1:1
  • By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. - Hebrews 11:3
  • By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deeps in storehouses. […] For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. - Psalm 33:6-9

​The Bible does not set out to prove to people that God exists but instead presumes that humanity knows God’s existence to be true.  It was at the beginning that God created humanity with an awareness that God exists.  God has no beginning or end.  He created the world in six, literal, consecutive, twenty-four hour days (i.e., morning and evening were day one).  God did not need gaps of time to create the world.  He merely spoke it into existence.  From the day of creation until today, God continues to sustain the world and hold it together.  If God had created the world and then left it to its own devices, the world would have ceased to exist.  All things created were created by God and are for His pleasure and glory.


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