There Is No God????

May 12

“Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created,” Genesis 2:1-3.

The Bible is emphatic. God created the heavens and the earth and then He rested. Man can dispute that assertion or man can accept it. It is one of the two clear options that he has. Of course, he can tip-toe around his decision about what to believe, but in essence, he believes the creation story or he does not.

Whether he accepts as absolute fact the Biblical claim that the earth was fashioned by God in the time frame of a week—or whether he construes that week to be eons of time—he is essentially embracing or denying the power of an Almighty Being who “with the breath of His nostrils,” Genesis 2:7, formed man as the hallmark of His divine creativity.

Many people find it difficult to accept any aspect of the Biblical version of how time and space and earth and life came to be. They find it far more plausible to believe the theory that every variation of life, including man, crawled out of a primordial slime that had the inexplicable ability to evolve into various forms of being.

Perhaps there is an obvious fact that isn’t getting through to me, but I find it far more believable to think an all-knowing, all-powerful God spoke everything into existence that He formulated in His infinite mind than to accept the fanciful notion that single-celled life forms somehow contained within themselves the ability to develop into sophisticated entities such as plants, animals, and human beings!

The one thing the skeptic avails to himself when he negates God at the point of creation is that if there is no God, there is certainly no need to identify sin or to have a Savior who can deliver from sin. If there is no God, there is no one to whom man must be accountable. The person who denies God at creation also denies Him on the cross.

So, the bottom line of believing the creation story is the necessity it poses of believing the SALVATION story. If the creation chronicles are denied, it then becomes easy to say, “There is no God,” Psalm 14:1. Believing that there is no God makes living with sin not only much more tolerable but also much more pleasurable. However, it makes dying with sin much more dismal.