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1 | Extra! Extra! | Gen 2:1 | Lionstrong | 6439 | ||
Whenever the news media finds an event that they feel worthy of reporting, they try to answer as many editorial questions as they can about that event. If they consider the event really big, then there follows editorials and possibly other reports of similar events. I look at commentaries on the Bible that way, at least the commentaries on the historical narratives in the Bible. Creation is the first great event of the history of the world. Well, it IS the FIRST event of the history of the world, and it is great, and there would be more questions asked of this event than I could ever imagine. Some questions would be good, others foolish, some genuine, others skeptical, hostile or dubious. The editorial questions begin with what, how, where, when, who, and why. Some of these questions are answered, at least partly, in the narrative so far. Answers to other questions will have to wait until later on in the historical unfolding of this inspired chronical. I can see the headline: "God Creates Universe in Six Days!" "Five days ago the Lord God began a six day project that would culminate with the creation of a creature made in His own image - Man." The reporter would then go on unfold the events of each day. He might end his report with, "It is not yet know why the Lord God created the heavens and the earth and all their hosts, and put Man in charge of the earth, but It will be interesting to see how Man will exercise his dominion." |
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2 | Extra! Extra! | Gen 2:1 | Lionstrong | 6588 | ||
Editorial Questions: WHAT was created? A. The heavens and the earth? Follow-up question: In light of the earth's relative microscopic size in the vastness of the universe why is the earth even mentioned? A. Earth was the Creator's focus of attention. In terms of the importance He places on the earth, the rest of the universe was created for the earth. If this were a play, earth would be center stage. One more follow-up question: If the universe is just a, so to speak, backdrop for the earth, would that not imply that there's no life on other worlds? A. The centrality of the earth is a strong argument for no life on other worlds, but it does not necessarily imply such. Other considerations have to come into play to validly support that position. What, if any, is the significance of the order of creation? A. The order of creation is partly based on necessity, and partly on the value or importance of what was created. Man was the most important thing created and therefore was created last as the crown of God's creation, but space and earth were necessarily created first to give this corporeal being a place to live. What was here before the begining? A. Space and time began with the creation. So, strickly speaking there was no "before" in the sense of sequence of moments, but "before" the creation there was no space or time; there was only the Triune God. Follow-up question: If there was no space or time, where did God create the heavens and the earth? A. in Him we live and move and exist, |
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